Dr. Ari Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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And what do you do about it if your toddler bites?
Right.
So, by the way, no one wants to be Dracula's mom.
And so everyone's really embarrassed, like, oh, my God, my kid's the biter.
I'm the biter.
Right.
But developmentally, and we talked about this last time, is communication skills.
So we have kids who
have a job to do, they want something, they want to accomplish a task, or they want attention, but they don't have that many words to say, I want to play with you, I want your attention, I want that toy.
And so what do they do?
They use their bodies
to communicate and so biting is an easy one and it definitely gets people's attention and sometimes it gets the toy and it's not malicious and sometimes it's just you know like I'm up on mom's shoulder and you know they just take a bite out of your shoulder and then if you respond like and it could be a big dramatic response because it hurts then again just like take throwing or pacifiers
they're going to do it again because that got a response.
Right.
So the best way to deal with biting is to be neutral, to not respond.
And so if your child is up on your shoulder and they bite you, you can just hold them there because you don't want to give them attention.
Or if it hurts, you can put them down because really the issue is them feeling
being physically up on you is what's allowing them to bite you.
But what they learn is I lose mom's attention when I bite.
Or, you know, when it comes to the toy, if they're playing with a toy or they want a toy and they bite some other kid, then right now the other child gets the toy.
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