What is a good way to handle a nearly 3 y/o biting?
We were sitting on the couch, playing and talking. I was hugging her, my arm across her upper chest. I was telling her it was getting close for bed time, that we'd be going upstairs soon. She leans down and bites my forearm, hard. No provocation, no warning.
I won't lie, my initial reaction was to slap her. I DIDN'T, I fought that urge. I did push her head back to the couch to get her off of my arm and I told her she was lucky i didn't slap her. She bawled, big crocodile tears. DH got mad and said I was hurting her (I was not, at all) so she went and sat by him. At this point I am still upset, she has had no repercussions at all for biting and now she is being coddled by daddy to be saved from mean mommy.
We were sitting on the couch, playing and talking. I was hugging her, my arm across her upper chest. I was telling her it was getting close for bed time, that we'd be going upstairs soon. She leans down and bites my forearm, hard. No provocation, no warning.
I won't lie, my initial reaction was to slap her. I DIDN'T, I fought that urge. I did push her head back to the couch to get her off of my arm and I told her she was lucky i didn't slap her. She bawled, big crocodile tears. DH got mad and said I was hurting her (I was not, at all) so she went and sat by him. At this point I am still upset, she has had no repercussions at all for biting and now she is being coddled by daddy to be saved from mean mommy.
