"Why is Elijah crying?" I asked my 4 year old. "His finger touched my teeth," Kade answered. That was code for, "I bit him." He talks in "code" when he doesn't want to get in trouble. I admit it. I have a biter. I thought he had quit, but I guess old habits die hard.
When Kade was 2 we were at the park with a friend and her 3 year old. The two children were sliding down the tube slide. It couldn't have been more then 2 minutes. What can happen in a tube slide??? I heard crying and Kade came out of the slide with bite marks on his arm. I asked my friend if her son might have bit him. She said emphatically, "Oh no, we don't allow him to bite." As if I encourage my kids to bite! "Go ahead kids, bite away!" "That one's got soft skin, take him out."
Turns out Kade had tried to bite his buddy and got his own little arm in the way. Yep, he bit himself. He came out crying, looking for sympathy. I'm not naturally sympathetic, especially when my child was about to inflict teeth marks on another child. I asked him if his bite hurt. He said, "yes" I said, "Don't bite others." He remembered for awhile, but looks like it's lesson time again.
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