I am in need of parental advice. Even if you are not a parent, I welcome your advice. Look at what happened to MY BABY!
What does that look like to you?!? Yes, yes it is, a BITE. Now this is not the first time she has been attacked by Hannibal, this is the SECOND time. First time my unsuspecting angel (bah) was minding her own business and was innocently reaching for a toy and Hannibal took a munch out of her arm. The first time, I laughed. Day to day she is pals with her attacker, and they have a fair share of squabbles that are matched with the same number of hugs. Plus I myself have a hard time not taking a bite our of her, I mean come on now, look at her:
She is completely delectable. Her soft baby pudge calls for a little nibble. But an all out munch? I was assured the first time that they will treat him like a “Biter” and he will not be allowed physical contact with the other children, yadda, yadda, yadda. But now Hannibal has attacked her again, and I am not so ready to laugh this one off. I want to go in there and make some serious demands that he be muzzled. I know kids will be kids, what really can you do? If anyone has any advice on how much I should or should not overreact, lay it on me.
I don’t know about your house, but nite-nite in my house is completely insane. It is more like wind up, than wind down. Yesterday (photo credit) Hubby took this one of the Fin Man getting a “Calm Out” and it personifies to me exactly how nutty it gets around here:
Loud, CrAzY, overwhelming, and we all get over stimulated. It’s a vicious cycle. By the way, Hubbby has nagged me sufficiently to get me to fill in my “About” page, so take a peak.
5 responses so far ↓
1 mcewen // Jun 1, 2007 at 9:10 am
Now don’t quote me and take this with a pinch of salt because I really don’t know your children well enough. That said, biters are very stressful to a parent’s mental health - biter might benefit from something else to bite on [sometimes just biting is a 'nice' feeling] You sort of get the ’stress’ out of the mouth - does that make any sense?
You can always email me.
Cheers
2 Kristina // Jun 2, 2007 at 7:23 am
Charlie got bit several times in a daycare when he was less than 18 months old. I second the need to give him something to bite on—-even one of those chew tube things (maybe he is having some teeth issues of his own?) Has he done it at the same time of day? What it his response afterwards? You can email me too—-
Bedtime can get wild around here too—I have to work on helping Charlie calm or it takes a bit longer for the sweet dreams.
3 Jerry Grasso // Jun 5, 2007 at 11:15 am
Would I be showing that I’m too much of a male if I said to teach her to bite back? Probably…..
4 Stephanie // Jun 5, 2007 at 7:05 pm
You asked - I will add my two cents. Relax. Kids bite; yours, mine, other people’s. Kids can’t communicate and they get excited and this is the release. My son was bitten and I was sympathetic to the biter’s mother knowing it could be any of our kids! It is a phase, like many, and just remind the caregivers to keep an eye on it.
OK - maybe that was ten cents.
5 Me // Jun 6, 2007 at 4:01 am
I have since the incident gained more humor, and relaxed a little. Jerry - your advice was the predominant response in conversations I had about it. She does seem no worse for wear, and is not holding against the offender. I do wonder what I will say if he does it again… he will. He LOVES her SO much.
Thank you everyone for your advice!
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