My sweet precious daughter is a biter. I know some of you cannot believe this and firmly believe she is provoked... But, it is true. A biter she be. The last day of school last year her teachers told me watch her, she was trying to bite. She bit once this summer at MDO and has now bitten almost every single day this year. We have gotten six "Naughty Notes" home for biting. They do not tell you who she bites but I am friends with most of the mom's and am pretty sure who she biting. I know she is not the only biter in the class but I am mortified that she keeps biting. I called the director to find out how they are handling it. She told me that they tell the biter that biting hurts and how it hurts their friend and then focus all the attention on the bitten. Her teachers have told me that her biting is territorial and that she bites when someone invades her space. They are watching her closely to try and intervene. She does not bite at home and therefore we have not been able to intervene there. She cannot tell me yet who she bit or probably even remembers. I keep reminding her not to bite and we only bite food.Finally yesterday I got to school and found a note in her lunch box... This time she was bitten! Finally! I know I sound like a terrible mom but I was glad to see that she was bitten for once and not the biter. And, hopefully she will learn that biting hurts. I hope that I do not offend any of my friends for posting this picture, and I am so sorry to all of you that Hannah has bitten your child.
6 comments:
Aww, hopefully she is just going through a phase. I mean she's not going to be biting people when she is 13, so you'll get through it!
She kind of reminds me of Patton, being territorial of her space. ;)
The biter becoming the bitee usually does the trick! It is only a short phase and it sounds like she is getting it over with sooner than later. Good luck!
Suzanne
When you were 8 months old and your mom and I had daughters in the same MDO room. The biting incident was our first contact with each other. It turned out I experienced one of the most loving friends of my life and will hold her memory close to my heart.
Our daughters turned out to be wonderful women. It will be okay.
Jennifer
I had Martin read the blog...he said it only confirmed that Hannah was provoked haha. He still says if she bit someone she was defending someone else--
he is IMPOSSIBLE.
I'm smiling big - you know that biting brings people together! In fact, didn't you write an essay on that when we were in seventh grade? I swear I remember it from Mrs. McLean's class...
Poor Hannah! but maybe it will help her not to bite anymore. of course, we can let her and Parker get into it again! :)
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