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» allofus526 - Biting in preschool and childcare.

In response to Biting in preschool and childcare. posted by Snuggs:
My daughter is 18 months old. Over the last month (since this new kid started daycare), she has been bit 6 times. She has been bit so hard and so many times that she has bruises all over her arms, hands, back. Every day when I pick her up, I am scared to walk into her room, for fear of a white paper (incident report) hanging on her cubby. She got bit Tuesday, Wednesday and she is there today. I don't know what to do, neither do the girls that work there. This little boy isn't just biting my daughter, but other children as well. When I dropped her off today, one of the care providers was holding a little girl. This little girl had bite marks all over her arms. What are we as parents supposed to do? The girls say that the director will not do anything about it. Human bites are dangerous. I don't want to leave that daycare, we love it there (other than this). I think that the little boy should have to be taken out of this facility, at least until he has gotten out of this "phase". It's not fair that our children are being bitten on a daily basis while he goes through his "phase". She cries every time I drop her off...wouldn't you if you knew you were going to get bit? She is going to think, "why does my mommy leave me at a place where I keep getting ouches?" Also, one of the girls said that yesterday, my daughter pushed a car towards this little boy and then he charged at her and bit her again. They were insinuating that she was the aggressor. For crying out loud, she was trying to keep him away from her. Please tell me what I am supposed to do...

-- posted by allofus526