Now I'm getting bitten!!!!!!!!

mummy2girls wrote: This is sooooo frustrating. The little girl I care for has been taken her frustrations out on jenna for awhile...I think because of jealousy! Anyways she has let Jenna be for a week now BUT now im the one she is taking her frustrations out on. I have no idea why. I treat her like my own child and i dont hit her or anything! I was standing in the kitchen and she comes up to me and starts biting my shirt and then she got a chunk of my tummy! I told her she bit me and that it hurt and gave her a warning. I didnt send her to her room because what happened could of been an accident. Anyways throughout the afternoon she treid biting my hands but i would pull away before she could get me. Then out of nowhere i was sitting on the floor and she comes around the corner and takes a bunch of my hair in her teeth and actually sank her teeth in my head and then she pulled my hair with her mouth. It toome by surprise as i was looking down at a book at the time so i yelled ouch really loud. Which scared her. I sent her for timeouts. I talked to her daddy when he arrived home and he said he would talk to her. Well today all day she tried biting me. And it weird because i would be reading her a book or playing with her and she would out of the blue bite me. She got my butt, arms, hands, legs. So today i had the parents actually talk to her in front of me making sue they did talk to her. So we will see what the weekend brings. It is so frustrating because what else can i do other than time outs and explaining to her what she is doing is wrong! I guess she has been doing this to her parents also lately! What to do what to do???

A&A'smommy replied: What kind of diability does she have?

mummy2girls replied:
She has downs syndrome

A&A'smommy replied: Well I was looking for a site to help you out but I don’t think there is too much out there, either that or I’m just overlooking it. Sorry I can't help!
I did find this site but I'm not sure it would be any help NDSS.

MommyToAshley replied: Aweee, I am sorry you have to go through this. Does her disability keep her from understanding other things that are right and wrong? (If you tell her no about something else, does she listen?) If she does understand "no" and that it is wrong, I don't know what else you could do other than timeouts or take away a different privelege (TV, fav toy, etc).

Good luck, I hope you can work through this!

mckayleesmom replied: Don't turn into a vampire......lol....jk..... ...I would just wait it out...it sucks being bitten, but its probably just a phase...once she sees that it only gets her negative attention..she will hopefully stop.

Elle replied: Oh, wow, I'm sorry you have to go through all that...
I agree with Mckaylee's mom, maybe it's just a phase and she'll stop doing it... I hope she stops soon! But other than talking to her parents, what else can you do?

kimberley replied: sorry to hear things aren't getting better with the girl you watch i was wondering if her parents have told her that you will not be babysitting her soon? maybe her aggression is coming from feeling that you will be leaving her. how did she react when the parents talked to her? how did she react when you told her she was hurting you? i agree that kids sometimes just go through a phase of agression. James was incredibly violent for a lot of his toddlerhood and i think it stemmed from his frustation of not being able to communicate. things got better when he learned to ask for what he wanted. i hope things get better soon.

Kirstenmumof3 replied: I'm so sorry that you have to endure all of this. This must be so frustrating for you. I don't know what to suggest, but wanted to give you lots and lots of (((((HUGS)))))

mummy2girls replied:
Yes she does understand "no". She will stop doing something if told no. I just hope this is a stage she is going through.

mummy2girls replied:
Yes they told her that I wont be babysitting her in few months from now. They explained to her that mommy is staying home with her from now on.

She was sad when they told her that i was leaving... I did tell her that mommy and daddy has my phone number and address so if she wants to see me she can. And that i will come and visit.

Whenever she bites me it takes me off guard so i end up yelling Ouch! It does scare her. More i think because i yelled. But i do tell her it really hurts when she bites me. I asked her if she ever have gotten bitten and she said yes. I asked her how did it make her feel. And she said it made me "sadder". And i cried. I told her thats how it makes me feel. But she always ends up biting me again later that day:(

I just hope its a phase that will go away soon.

Lily replied: Wow, my first thought is that she's going through something that she can't verbalize and is taking out her frustration on you. Maybe because she knows you won't hurt her or something. I don't know. I really hope this stops soon. Biting is not okay.