Comment by opwieurposiu
5 years ago
One Inuit parenting technique that works on my kids. If a child hits you or bites you, don't yell at them. Instead pretend to cry in an exaggerated way. I have found this to be way more effective than yelling or timeouts. My oldest is almost 4, so this might not work on older kids. But then older kids do not bite very often anyway.
This works on puppies too. If they get a bit nippy, overreact to the biting.
There's probably a lot of similarity between what works on very young kids and puppies, at least until they learn to use that brain of theirs better.
That's the reaction a puppy would get from a sibling or its mom. The fake yelps immediately stop rough play, everyone looks around for a few seconds trying to figure out what happened. Then they bow to invite to play / signal no intent to harm, and continue playing with less biting.
Biting them back also works.
Will try this!