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Picked up my son yesterday and got the dreaded "can we have a quick word". He bit another child on the arm. Third time this month apparently, they just hadn't told me the first two because they were "minor".
I feel awful. The other parents presumably know it's him. He's a sweet, cuddly boy at home and has literally never bitten me. How do I stop something that only happens when I'm not there?
Oh I've been there. Mine was the biter in the baby room at 15-18 months. It's so common at that age, they don't have the words yet and biting gets a massive reaction. It passed once his language came in.
Ask the nursery when it happens. Is it at the same time of day? Ours was always just before lunch when he was tired and hungry and someone took his toy. Once they spotted the pattern they shadowed him at that time and it basically stopped.
As the dad of a kid who got bitten: honestly most of us don't think about it beyond the day. Toddlers bite. It would only bother me if the nursery wasn't doing anything about it, and that's on them, not on you.
Teething too? Ours bit way more when the molars were coming. A chewy necklace thing helped a bit.
At home we practised "gentle hands" and "teeth are for food" with his teddies, plus a very bored flat "no biting" if he tried it on us. The trick was not making it dramatic. Drama = fun.
Update for anyone in the same boat: nursery came back and said it's nearly always in the 20 minutes before lunch, at the sand tray. So it's hungry plus crowded. They're giving him a snack a bit earlier and keeping him at a different activity. Two weeks, no bites. Fingers firmly crossed.
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