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Working Mum - A sinking feeling

How practitioners deal with an incident such as biting can make a
big difference to the outcome for child and parent, says Working Mum

My daughter recently bit a child at nursery. It's a moment I've dreaded. There's something so carnal and aggressive about biting and the angry teeth marks left behind are awful. I hate to think of my 18-month-old doing that to another child.

My nephew was a serial biter when he was around two years old and I saw the anguish that my sister went through with him. It's seven years since there was last a biting incident and he's a loving, caring boy, but she still vividly remembers how ashamed she was made to feel by his behaviour. She felt he was labelled as 'naughty' at nursery, which also upset her.

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