For all the same legal and other reasons given for not using lemon juice,
etc, to discourage biting, the one treatment that has been used by
generations of mothers with great effectiveness cannot be given either: Bite
the kid back.
don
Donald McBurney
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Hi all:
I'm curious: have any of you ever advised a parent of a biting child to bite
the child in return? If not, why not, given it's "great effectiveness"? Is
it ethical and practical to recommend methods that are not as effective and
which prolong the problem? Is there any generalization from th
Hi everyone
I have to jump in also, having had a child who went through a very short phase of being a "biter" when she was about 15 months. I'm certain she began to do it in earnest after having found it an effective and entertaining way to stop another baby (with whom she shared a babysitter) fr
"Bite the child back" was alleged to be effective.
Produce the evidence for such a claim, please. I dispute the effectiveness of such a method...it's just cruel and childish.
Nancy Melucci
Long Beach City College
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Isn't one of the basic tenets of a young child's
egocentric cognition that he/she can't put herself in another's
shoes? That's one (of the many) reasons why "showing a child how it
feels" to be bitten won't be effective. She won't take the next step and
think, "I won't bite that child beca
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City College of San Francisco
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Hi all:
I'm curious: have any of you ever advised a parent of a biting child to bite
the child in return? If not, why not, given it's "great effectiveness"? Is
it ethical and practical to recommend methods that are not as effective and
which prolong the pro
In reference to Don McBurney's suggestion (which I suspect was made
more facetiously than seriously) that a parent bite a biting child
back, Beth Benoit replied:
> Isn't one of the basic tenets of a young child's egocentric cognition
> that he/she can't put herself in another's shoes? That's on
