Teeth are Not for Biting

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.

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!

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

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.

Our 16-18m old was biting both us (his parents) and other children at nursery as a way of communicating his frustration when he didn’t have the words to express himself. After reading the book for just a few nights he started to shake his head when we got to the biting pages and cuddling when we got to the cuddling pages. He has never bitten us or a child since!