This Job, It Can Bite

Preschool kids look sweet and innocent. They are so cute that to anyone passing our mob in the hallway - because really, we are not likely going to achieve a line anytime soon - wants to sneak one into their classroom for a while. I agree that they are adorable, charming, engaging, precious, and the best part of my day but they are also far from the innocent little angels that many people want to make them out to be. We have our days when becoming a lion tamer at the circus seems like a safer and calmer job choice. My blue eyed boy started biting a few weeks ago and in spite of everything I had tried managed to take a front tooth sized piece out of me on Tuesday. He does make a very cute little vampire, but I prefer not to be his afternoon snack. So yesterday I worked with several wonderful experts to come up with a plan to avoid being taste tested and to reduce the biting. I still love him to pieces, as I love all my little ones, and I am sort of happy to see him doing this. He is tryng to express frustration at times by biting, which I hope to redirect to communication, and he is testing limits and being defiant at others which is nice to see in a child that many underestimate. The little vampire- he has attitude, he has spirit, he is a little bit punk and I love it. Just not so much when he shows it by chewing a hole into me. :)