Sour patch kid toddler

I’m genuinely in the trenches rn 😭

My daughter is 20 months and the biting is driving me INSANE. I’ve tried telling her no, redirecting her, explaining that biting hurts, and absolutely nothing seems to be clicking. She’ll be sweet one second and then CHOMP 😩

And on top of that, this girl has the grip strength of a grown man. She’ll grab a handful of my arm, neck, leg, whatever she can reach, and just SQUEEZE. Likeeee ma’am??? Where are you getting this strength from???

Please are other moms are dealing with the biting too?? because I feel like we’re barely in the toddler phase and I’m already fighting for my life over here 😂

Does it get better? What actually worked for your little one? Because at this point I’m accepting thoughts, prayers, and any toddler taming techniques you’ve got 😭

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Bite her back lol . Not like hard lol but u know what I mean.

what i did was instead of trying to get him to stop biting i just turned it into a game of pretend biting. anytime he bit me i would say “ouch! that hurt mama. pretend bite” and then i would pretend bite him and he would copy me. it takes practice, also if she’s talking you can encourage her to say sorry for hurting you and then try again gentle. i don’t remember the last time mine bit me hard and now he’s at the point of testing boundaries and he’ll ask me “bite mama?” and i remind him “gentle” and sometimes he tries to negotiate and say “bite mama hard?” and i say not on mama and offer him something he can bite hard. same with the grabbing, every time she grabs you say “ouch that hurts, want something to squeeze?” offer her something she can squeeze like a stress toy and teach her to request it by saying something like “i want squeeze” and practice, practice, practice.

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