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What to Do if Your Child Hits Others at Daycare (US)
Being told your 2-year-old hit another child at daycare is a tough phone call. The instinct to feel embarrassed, defensive, or worried about who they'...
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Daycare
What to Do if Your Child Hits Others at Daycare (UK)
Being told your 2-year-old hit another child at daycare is a tough phone call. The instinct to feel embarrassed, defensive, or worried about who they'...
5 min read
Daycare
What to Do if Your Child Hits Others at Daycare (Global)
Being told your 2-year-old hit another child at daycare is a tough phone call. The instinct to feel embarrassed, defensive, or worried about who they'...
5 min read
Daycare
Why a Child May Act Aggressively at Daycare: Age-Related Causes (US)
Few sentences turn a parent's stomach faster than "your child bit another child today." It is normal to spiral: is something wrong, is this who they a...
4 min read
Daycare
Why a Child May Act Aggressively at Daycare: Age-Related Causes (UK)
Few sentences turn a parent's stomach faster than "your child bit another child today." It is normal to spiral: is something wrong, is this who they a...
4 min read
Daycare
Why a Child May Act Aggressively at Daycare: Age-Related Causes (Global)
Few sentences turn a parent's stomach faster than "your child bit another child today." It is normal to spiral: is something wrong, is this who they a...
4 min read
Daycare
Age-Related Reasons for Aggressive Behavior in Groups (US)
Hitting, biting, pushing, snatching — physical aggression is one of the most common worries parents bring up at daycare pickup. Whether your child was...
3 min read
Daycare
Age-Related Reasons for Aggressive Behavior in Groups (UK)
Hitting, biting, pushing, snatching — physical aggression is one of the most common worries parents bring up at nursery pickup. Whether your child was...
3 min read
Daycare
Age-Related Reasons for Aggressive Behavior in Groups (Global)
Hitting, biting, pushing, snatching — physical aggression is one of the most common worries parents bring up at daycare pickup. Whether your child was...
3 min read
Parenting
Biting in Toddlers: Causes and Responses
The first time your toddler bites someone, it's a punch to the gut. The second time, it's panic — what if she keeps doing this? The boring news is tha...
8 min read
Emotions
Aggression in Toddlers: Developmental Norm or Warning Sign
The toddler who hits their parent, bites a playmate, or pushes another child off a toy is not demonstrating early antisocial tendencies. They are demo...
3 min read
Daycare
Why a Child May Act Aggressively at Daycare: Age-Related Causes
Few sentences turn a parent's stomach faster than "your child bit another child today." It is normal to spiral: is something wrong, is this who they a...
4 min read
Daycare
Age-Related Reasons for Aggressive Behavior in Groups
Hitting, biting, pushing, snatching — physical aggression is one of the most common worries parents bring up at nursery pickup. Whether your child was...
3 min read
Daycare
What to Do if Your Child Hits Others at Daycare
Being told your 2-year-old hit another child at daycare is a tough phone call. The instinct to feel embarrassed, defensive, or worried about who they'...
5 min read
Emotions
Hitting and Biting in Toddlers: Why It Happens and How to Respond
The phone call from nursery — "she bit another child today" — is one of the more dreaded moments of early parenthood. The shame is instant, the worry...
6 min read
Emotions
Biting, Hitting, and Aggressive Behaviour in Toddlers: What Drives It and How to Respond
Discovering that your child has bitten another child at nursery, or that your toddler has hit an older sibling, is embarrassing, alarming, and stressf...
4 min read
Emotions
Toddler Aggression: Biting, Hitting, and What It Means Developmentally
Few toddler behaviours cause more parental distress than biting or hitting — partly because of the harm caused to others, partly because of the embarr...
3 min read
Emotions
Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours in Children: Nail Biting, Hair Pulling and Skin Picking
Nail biting is so common we barely notice it. Hair pulling is less visible and tends to alarm parents the moment they spot a thin patch on the scalp....
6 min read