Texas Daycare Worker Admits To Biting Child I'm not sure about this myself. I mean, I'm all in favour of biting a child who bites other children (just to be clear, only my own child), but I don't know if that would extend to a day care worker. Opinions on the event from the article or "biting the biter" in general?
I would be mad too! The lady should have called the mom/dad to pick the child up. Does that lady not know how many germs are in the human mouth? This lady would have a mark alright, a boot mark on her arse!!
Are you crazy? Do you not know how many germs are in the human arse? One presumes the skin was not broken.
I would not bite my child but he would be punished. The daycare worker would promptly have her arse kicked.
My mom said that I was a biter and she bit me after several times of me biting her and I never bit anyone again. Thank God my son was not a biter and I am hoping that my daughter is not one either. I guess time will tell. However, if she does become a biter I will bite her back, of course not breaking the skin and only after all other disciplinary attempts have been made.
Biting usually comes from immense frustration; it is just a way that a very young child can get that feeling out without having the ability to express it in words or some other way(although once when, in despair, I asked a child WHY was she biting her friend she replied, "Cause it hurts him"-but that is rare). In a daycare situation sometimes there are things you can do in the room to alleviate that. Unfortunately(IMO) the whole atmosphere in daycare just breeds unpleasant behavior. It is abominable for a caregiver to do that and I wouldn't advocate doing it to your own kids but I can maybe see trying it if nothing else worked.
I agree. Use it only as a LAST resort, but only for your child. Other people should not be biting your child.
I've never done it, but I know folks who have, not sure I agree with it, but DS wasn't a biter. I do know if a caregiver had ever bitten my child, they wouldn't have any teeth left to do it to someone else. :evil:
I'd say a pop on the leg or tail is more of a quick response type of punishment to demonstrate that biting is wrong rather than a caregiver (incl. parents) biting the child back. Thankfully, we never really had that much of a biter. It was attempted once or twice, but was never a real problem and we're well past that stage now.
I agree with this post. Any "daycare worker" truly qualifed to be a teacher in a classroom would know better than this. If it were my child, they would be facing assault charges.
There is probably a heap of charges that could be pressed and certainly would be if this were my child as well. Anyone who would hurt my child (no matter what kind of f'ed up reasoning they might have for it) is going to pay to the fullest extent of my ability, the law, etc.
