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

I got this for my 19 months old daughter. She goes to daycare and had been having severe biting issues. She gets an incident almost everyday and at her worst she gets 3 incident a day. She does not bite us at home. She only does it at daycare when someone takes her toy away, she wants something that another child is playing with or another child sits closer to her and she doesn't want it. We dread picking her up because we feel like we're doing the walk of shame when we have to sign her incident report.I got this book because this seems to be the highest rating book that addresses biting and it seems to worked for a lot of people who posted a review. My daughter loves this book and I read it to her every night before bed and in the morning when she wakes up. This is one of her must read nightly book. Unfortunately, this did not work for her at all. She understood it hurt when she bites based on the photos in this book but she still bites even after a month of reading this to her. Eventually, daycare suggested to see a therapist for both occupational and speech therapy and we did. So we meet with the therapist and she said my daughter does not need any therapy at all. So the therapist went to my child's daycare to observe her and gave the teacher pointers on how to deal with my daughters biting issues. What worked for my daughter was diversion, watching her closely and offering her something else before she gets mad. A week after that her incident starts to lessen and now 2 months after we're completely incident free.I know some parts of my review are irrelevant to this book but I just want to share my experience hoping it'll help others too. As a mom of a serial biter, I don't want to relive that experience again. As for this book, this is still my daughter's favorite book and she won't go to bed without reading this. So yeah it's a great book.

I'll admit I had nothing to lose here. My 3 year old son was coming home from daycare with 2-3 "Incident Reports" per day. 95% were for biting. I even had to suffer the indignity of a school meeting to discuss his behavior and if "there were any changes in his home life?". No. There weren't. His biggest life change was moving from the 2 year old classroom (no biting) to the 3 year old classroom (raving, biting lunatic). I'll also add that he has some mild speech and motor delays. Oh, and at the ripe age of 3 years and 2 months finally started to cut his 2 year molars. It really was the Perfect Storm for biting. And bite he did. He was biting teachers, his friends, his enemies. They even once told me he was sitting in a circle perfectly calm and literally just leaned over to bite the kid next to him. He'd also bite to protect his territory or when feeling crowded. This went on for about 6 weeks and I was at my wits end. Found this book somehow and thought I'd give it a try. The day after I started reading it he bit ONE TIME. I was thrilled. Not a single incident the next 2 days and now I'm a believer. I was worried that it would be too "babyish" for him. It sort of is but somehow still captures his attention. He almost fixates on the page where the girl his holding her arm and crying. He keeps repeating "he bit her?" out loud as if the boy in the book committed such a shameful act. Not sure what he thinks HE'S been doing for the past 6 weeks but whatever works. I was about to start sending him to school in one of those Hannibal masks...but this was SOOOO much easier.

My daughter was having issues biting at daycare and i didn't want to have THAT kid. We started reading this daily when she was about18 months and she totally got it. She got kind of sad the first time we read it and then she started chanting along "ouch biting hurts". We got 3 bite notices in one day and multiple times a week. After we started reading this we didn't have any more problems and that was 4 months ago. I waited to write a review to see if the results stuck. Oh and this is her favorite book she frequently requests now!

I love this book & want to get the whole series!While reading the book my kid started teething on it so clearly we need to read it a few more times.

Our then one year old was biting me quite a lot and desperate me ordered this book. When I received it I thought "oh boy, this is kind of lame, I don't think it will work" but surprisingly enough my now 17 month actually brings over this book to read quite often. He also stopped biting me after a few weeks. Was it just a temporary phase or was it the book? I don't know but I definitely don't regret buying this book! We also think adding another snack might have helped him as some of his biting was close to meal times. Good luck parents of biters!I do like that there are both boys and girls and various ethnic backgrounds in this book.

OK this book was a lifesaver! My son (who is a very sweet boy) got into daycare and was biting other kids. One of his daycare teachers asked us to purchase this book and we read it to him before bed, within a week he knew "teeth were not for biting". The graphics are super cute and the information is pretty clear to a 2-4 year old child. Would recommend this book to any parent who is struggling with biting issues!

I was having problems with my son biting for quite regularly for some time at nursery and at home, he was still quite young at 20 months old and my health visitor recommended giving a book a try, I bought this one and when it arrived I thought maybe the wording of the book was for children who were a bit older than my son but I read it to him every day for a week (along with others book aswell so as not too be forcing this on him) but 4 months down the line and he has not bitten anyone again since so it certainly must of had an effect on him

Got this book after a couple of incidents of my 3 year old son biting other children. I feel that it is too simplistic- there isn’t a story to follow and the book is very short with a patronising 2 page spread at the back with “tips”. However my son loves the book and asks to read it regularly and we haven’t had any problems with biting since we got it a couple of months ago so it must be doing something right!

Bought this for my 3 yr old son while he was transitioning from being the only child to a big brother. At first I thought there was no hope as he would constantly throw tanturms and would try to bite the baby. Then I purchased this book and safe to say things have calmed down. Its part of our bedtime routine that I will this book with him and remind him of what teeth are actually meant for. I would highly recommend this book to all the parents who're going through the same situation of sibling jealousy or any other type of behaviour issues and how this book can help towards calming and behaving toddlers.

Love this book! It ends with a great line, that we keep using to reaffirm the book. But after reading this everyday, and at first a few times a day the incidents have massively dropped. My son is 18 months old and was biting several times a day, with a bite form from nursery every day. After 2 days we saw a difference in him. Since then we have had one bite, a few where he has stopped himself and smiled like the book says. Really pleased with his progress, after having been he book just over a week.

Book is okay, my daughter likes the pictures, but we tend to make up our own story as it isn't very catchy. Pictures have helped us to talk about biting and it being ouchy, making people sad in a fun, playful way. Whether coincidental or not my daughter is now not biting as much, so I feel the book was worth buying.