Bite Followup

[lesliepear]

Did follow up with daycare. They did give him the pizza which apparently he ate a little of (they figured I'd ordered lunch).

I did speak to the director about the bite and not being told (as well as the teacher). Appears to be a shift change issue.

My MIL is wondering about AIDS (not likely in my opinion), and what they did about the biter and Alan in terms of discipline and did the biter have a history.

Will find out a little more tommorrow.

Comments

[dstroy.livejournal.com]

did the kid actually break the skin and cause bleeding???
Anyway, you dont transfer AIDS through saliva.
Kids bite. It happens a lot - they get really excited and sometimes do so to express themselves. You have to expect it to occur once in a while at this age.

Yes, the school totally should have told you, but to freak out on the kid that did the biting is unfair.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

My MIL was more freaked about that. I reassured her tonight that if a child had AIDS, they'd know. She/he would probably be on medicine and the school needs a signed note for that.

I'm sure it just was toddler thing.

[dstroy.livejournal.com]

Well, your mother is overreacting and sadly sadly ignorant about AIDS and how it spreads.
In order for AIDS to get transmitted, a simple bite wouldnt do it, unless like the kid had a bloody sore in his mouth and the other broke skin and somehow blood mixed.
She needs to stop being so paranoid. Even my friend who while pregnant was working with AIDs and HepC patients have had serum of infected patients spilled on their arms and it was wiped off with rubbing alcohol and they immediately were sent down for lab testing as well as follow up testing 6 months later (purely as a precaution) *even though they KNEW this was extremely unlikely* did not get infected. And thats a hellof a lot different than mild bites.

[geenamb.livejournal.com]

Being a daycare teacher for many years I have a lot of experience with biters. It happens when you have a group of young kids together, it is normal. We had a biter who bite someone every single day and we kept our eyes on him as much as we can but it is so hard when you have a room full of kids to keep a eye on everyne ALL the time. However the difference is that we had forms and we would fill out a incident report for both parents the biter and the bitee and we would talk to our parents which I think is the one big difference here. However it is not going to be the last time I am sure. My neice use to bite my Maria all the time. LOL they are 6 months apart and everytime we got together she would bite her. LOL I think it is harder when it is family. Then when she hit preschool she got bit by a boy there too at 4 yrs old.

[purple-roses.livejournal.com]

One bite isn't too bad. There was a biter at my last daycare and on three different occasions, he bit Katie. Then it stopped one day when he tried again and she, brandishing her finger at him, clearly stated "No biting!". Believe it or not, he stopped and while he did bite others, he never bit her again.

The only sitter I speak badly of is the one that let Katie get bitten 4 times (3 of those on her face) before breaking it up. Her excuse: "I was making lunch and had to stop and wash my hands." Ever heard of a towel? Washing the children? Changing their clothes? I don't care, you don't let some brat sit on top of my child and chop on her!

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

There apparently is a biter in Alan's class (whether this is the one that bit Alan, I don't know - I didn't ask) - they have spoken to that child's parents about it.

I didn't even notice anything on Alan's hand - if I hadn't checked his backpack, I'd never have known even.

[dstroy.livejournal.com]

how did you notice the bite by looking in his backpack? If there wasnt even a mark on his hand, you should have told your MIL she was being completely absurd.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I didn't even see anything on his hand, I just saw the note from the school.

My MIL worries a lot. I ended up telling her, the school would know if a child had AIDS -- because they'd probably be on medicine and you have to have signed notes to give medicine in the school.