DS bites my...um.. "stuff"

[JordanKX]

One of those sentences I never thought I'd say, but it's getting to a point that I have to ask if anyone else has experienced this.

DS is almost 2yo. He is not a biter normally with me or kids at daycare. He is a pincher on my face/neck. And on the boobies when he sees them (he does not nurse). He thinks boobies are hysterical. And yowsah, the pinching! But just in the past few weeks, he's started biting my naked body when he sees it.

I do not live with his father, so it's just us. I know he's curious. I am not modest and certainly not around my child. We shower together in the mornings. This has been left at mild curiosity, until recently when he points at... mommy pee-pee. And then he bites me! If I turn around to, well, get away... he bites my butt.

He bites!

And... It Hurts!

I'm not sure why the biting is coming out in this way. He doesn't touch; he doesn't have a lot of words. He just bites. Which has immediately nixed the showering together... but I still have to get dressed in the mornings. I don't want to hide from my child. But, seriously, OUCH! What a weird statement. But truly, what is going on here? Has anyone else had any equivalent experience? Maybe I'm not sure what Biting means... especially since it isn't his normal acting out good/bad.

tia

[amberskyfire]

I wouldn't think it has anything specifically to do with those being your private areas so much as the reaction he gets from you when he does it. Are you using consistent reinforcement when he bites? You don't need to say "don't bite my ____," just "don't bite" in general.

For DD, when she would bite, it was because she thought it was hilarious and she liked the reaction she got. I had to be firm with her, get down on her level (rather than let my butt be at her level), look her in the eye and say very firmly "NO. Biting hurts. We do not bite." If she continued to do it or to laugh, we would do a short time-out and again each time consistently until the biting stopped. Unless she was poking me in a specific area, I didn't address the area, just the biting.

[modifiedmama]

I'd honestly start wearing clothes around him. That's my only advice. Maybe if you were clothed, he wouldn't bite your "stuff."

[~Adorkable~]

does he have any molars that he still needs to get?  my 15 month old just started biting everything in sight out the blue, put a huge nasty bruce on his twin sister before we could stop it. low and be hold, his first molar is coming in. i gave him something cold to bite and he bite down so hard he turned red!  i felt so bad i didn't notice it coming, but he gave us zero other signs.

[sk8boarder15]

My 18 month old just started biting BAD and he is getting molars and canines. I found his old sophie the giraffe and got it out for him. When he bites I say "Where is your giraffe??? We only bite the giraffe!" and it really helps. If I say "NO" he either laughes and does it again, or cries. Redirecting him to an appropriate outlet really helped. So he has a few baby teething toys I pulled out again. Maybe let him pick one out?