What would you have done?

Ruby31

my 2 year old was bitten in a playcentre yesterday. I'm just wondering how other parents react when this kind of thing happens? He has bruises on his arm today. Do you speak to the other child's parent? Say nothing?

pwurple

If you didn't say anything at the time, then the moment is gone. Maybe if you see aggressive behaviour again... you either need to get between them, or speak to the other parent. Were they fighting over a toy, or was the child biting other people too?

My little girl went to preschool with a couple of fairly violent autistic children (they only got diagnosed recently, but it was pretty obvious to us when they were smaller). They were a year older than her, but in the same group. There were quite a lot of incidents where they would throw things at other children, kick, bite, punch and scream etc. Completely non-verbal as well. She and the other children learned fast enough to keep out of their way.

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There is not really much you can do. I presume you were supervising her at the play centre, so you could have said something at the time, but probably too late now. My kids have been hit before in the play centre and I just take them away and say 'hitting is not allowed ' to other child.