Toddler Biting

We all know that toddlers biting are really very frustrating! Recently we saw a fifteen and half month old boy leaned on a 4 month old baby. We thought he will kiss him but we herd a screaming sound from baby as if he was in great pain. When we investigated we found the two distinctive teeth marks on his cheeks. That fifteen and half month toddler bit him.

The reasons behind the toddler biting

A research tells that there are number of reasons for which the toddlers bite their parents or any one. Once anyone has figured out why their toddler is biting then he or she can take a significant step in stopping this bad habit of the toddler.

Some reasons are listed below

The Emotional Overload on the toddler

In the case of fifteen and half month old buy we found that he was having or he had emotions for that small baby. For him the kiss was nothing or not enough to show his emotions. That little toddler looked very confused when we scolded him for biting that little baby. The emotions of toddlers move faster than every other thing in the world. They suddenly get sad, happy, playful, sleepy, angry, exhilarated, whiney etc. so whenever any toddler finds or feels emotions for the any other child he may not know how to express his or her feeling and thus he straight away bites that small child.

The frustration is the chief thing which leads to the biting

The major reason of toddler biting basically stems from the frustration. These toddlers basically get frustrated from number of things in a day. And the fact is they don’t actually know how to tackle wit their frustration appropriately. They may start crying, start kicking you with their legs, start shaking their legs and they may even bite an unknown person, just because they are in frustration.

Toddlers also use biting as a weapon for defense

The biting habit of toddler can also be a defense mechanism or it can be used as weapon by the toddler. Sometimes you may listen that child has been bitten, but you have missed what actually happened just before the biting happened. Sometimes you never consider that your child has been pushed, shoved or even hit by the other child. If such incidence had happen then your child has left with only one mode of defense that is biting and offending the other child away. But if one has been dealing with very small toddler then he or she may not come to know the whole story.

Sometimes communication problem gives rise to the biting habit

As we all know that the toddlers are not very adept in clarifying their wants and needs to the people around them, and then the biting is used by them as a mode of communication. After biting they feel that they get some attention and some response, even if it is in the negative sense.