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Teeth Are Not for Biting (Board Book) (Best Behavior Series)

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I found this book to be both educational and preventive. It offers young children concrete alternatives to their urges to bite others. It's designed to be read by a parent, guardian, or teacher, and it offers colorful illustrations by Marieka Heinlen.

Teeth Are Not for Biting approaches the issue of biting with great care and understanding. The book talks frankly about why children bite others, and also attempts to instill empathy into children who may be prone to biting. Probably the greatest strength of this book is its practical advice to children. Elizabeth Verdick presents alternatives to biting that are easy to understand, and more importantly, simple enough for most young children to do.

This book is a worthy new entry for preventing and teaching children about the harmful behavior of biting others.

Life saving book!! My son has been biting other kids a school and I was told that he might not be able to come back if the biting didn't stop. I was at my ends with the biting and started to look around for books and other methods of teaching him to communicate. This book has been a life saver. My son (2 1/2) has memorized this book (even reading it to himself in bed) and is using examples (i.e. alternatives to biting) learned from this book at school. The director of the school and all the teachers are just in shock with the 180 my son has done.

I would recommend this book to any person who has a child who bits!

My baby daughter, at age 11 months, went through a few weeks of sporadic biting. She would unexpectedly bite the shoulder of her mommy, daddy, and big sister - hard enough to make little tooth-shaped bruises. I ordered this book, and the morning it arrived she had just bitten her sister's shoulder (again). I sat down in the rocking chair with her and read this book -- when I got to the page showing a girl crying with a big "boo-boo" on her arm (where someone had bitten her) and explained how that girl had been hurt by someone's teeth, my baby put her head on my shoulder and cried. The book makes it clear that "teeth are not for biting!"

We knew she had been teething, and I was so glad the book even talked about that -- the REASONS toddlers sometimes bite! Babies want to be understood! She seemed relieved when I got to the page about children biting when their teeth are hurting -- like, "Oh, somebody finally understands what I'm going through!" She seemed to grasp the concept of this book*, and she has not bitten any of us since the day we first read it!

(*We also became more pro-active about treating her for teething pain - with teething toys, teething medicines, etc. The book also points out other reasons children bite, like hunger or frustration.)

This book has really helped my toddler understand that biting hurts. I am grateful to the author for writing this book. Thanks

What a fantastic, beautifully illustrated, well though out book. My 14 month old bites and can draw blood - mercifully only on me and my husband! She seems to do it only when teething. Thankfully she is a total bookworm and loves to copy her books. I would recommend this to any parent with a littlie!

We have a wonderful little 14 month old guy at our daycare who has been randomly biting everyone. Including my 7 month old baby girl. The sitter and the boy's mom had tried all kinds of things. Startling him, ignoring him to comfort the bite-ee, and a myriad of other stuff. Out of desperation (I am crazy about our sitter AND this little boy, but was unhappy about the biting), I bought this book after the third bite in a week. The sitter read it to the little guy and injected the little boy's name into every "you" in the book. It seems to have gotten the message across and so far no more bites have gone down. Best of all, there is a section with information and ideas for parents and caregivers about biting, why it happens, ideas to prevent and re-direct. I really like the approach of this book and I highly recommend it to anyone with a biter or bite-ee that needs some help.

I found this book at my local library and decided to check it out as my 20-month-old daughter had started biting me thinking she was playing a game. She really likes the book and asks for it to be read to her multiple times (she'll point at it and say "teeth, teeth..."). It has simple languange and bright, engaging pictures for toddlers. Best of all, it really seems to have helped our little biting problem, even after only 2 weeks of having the book from the library. If she wants to bite, we just say "teeth are not for biting! Ouch! Biting hurts" and she stops. I am here to purchase our own copy so that I can finally return the library's!

Our daughter used biting in a wide variety of circumstances. Someone suggested this book and I'm so glad I purchased it. First of all, she loved the book. Secondly, the book opened the door for us to talk about what she could do instead of biting others and herself. She is 19 months old now and is able to stop herself before she bites.

My son (who is just under 2) likes this book. He will even use some of the phrases from it after he bites! I was hoping (although certainly didn't expect) that this would stop the biting by giving him a different way of hearing about biting. It didn't. So, while this is a good book, don't expect that this alone (or probably even this along with a bunch of other things) is going to stop biting altogether.

We were at our wits end with our 2 year old daughter's incessant and dangerous biting of her 4 year old sister. She would bite when she was playing and happy, and bite when bad. Bite, Bite, Bite. We tried the naughty chair, letting the 4 year old bite back, nothing worked. I ordered this book and the night it came, we all got in bed together and read it twice, making a big deal of the mantra "Teeth are Not for Biting" while shaking our hands in the air (like no-no). Our biter got such a serious look on her face! For the next couple of days we would stop whatever we were doing and repeat the mantra "Teeth are not for Biting" in a very dramatic fashion. Know what? This kid stopped biting. Now, she has bitten a couple of times since, but this has made a HUGE difference in our sanity. Highly recommend this book to any parent with biting issues. UPDATE: 12/2009 - Biting issue totally resolved after this book. A miracle! Highly recommend it!!!!