My toddler was bit at daycare do I cofront the biters parents for an apology?

Do you have an anonymous question you desperately need answered? Submit it to our Advice Needed column.My son has been bitten at daycare a couple of times now and although the daycare teachers won’t tell me who the perpetrator is, I think I have a fairly good idea.Is it OK for me to approach the parents? OK, ease up there cowboy.While I understand it can be deeply upsetting to find bite marks on your child, you’re not Liam Neeson and this isn’t Taken. Realistically, what is talking to the other parents going to achieve aside from making them feel awful and you look aggressive? Because take it from me, biting is not a habit I have seen any parent ever, ever encourage.

If anything, they are deeply troubled by it and riddled with guilt. Once I was away with a group of friends, two of whom had babies of the same age — a little boy (the biter) and a little girl (the bitee).Now at this stage we had something like four kids between eight adults.

You’d think between all of us we would be able to keep an eye on the situation – especially considering both were crawling and not particularly fast. Tell you what.Kids are sneaky.

Over the course of the weekend the girl got bitten maybe three to four times, much to the dismay of both sets of parents.Both felt victimized, both felt terrible — but only one felt shame, even though they needn’t have. Biting is a typical phase of baby and toddlerhood — albeit a tough one — and is simply part of a child’s development.

It could be teething, it could be curiosity, maybe your kid tastes particularly nice (too soon?) but there’s not really much anyone can do about it. If anything, I would speak to the childcare educators and ask them to keep your child and the little zombie apart as much as possible.If things persist you could ask them to outline any other suggestions (they are seasoned professionals and this is not their first biting rodeo) but it’s not like a baby muzzle exists — and no, don’t...