a biter

last month, i wrote this post:

there is a biter at our youngest's school.

actually, there are three biters.

our kiddo comes home with marks almost every day he is there.

and today he came home with a report that he bit someone else...and broke skin.

as a parent of a child bitten, i feel indignation and frustration that the other parents and the school are not able to get a handle on this.  as a parent of a biter, i feel shame because he is biting someone else. as a therapist, familiar with child development, i know this behavior is within normative boundaries and it will pass.  

it is really hard to balance the rational and emotional when it comes to issues like biting.  

so i sign the incident reports. 

check in and support the teachers' efforts. 

reinforce the "no biting" message with my kiddo. 

and i wait.

 today, we celebrate 4 weeks of biting sobriety...