Can anyone really say that their child "never demonstrated or threatened violence, harm, or other behavior that is grossly inappropriate toward any other person"???
Are there children who never have hit or bitten another person, not even as toddlers? Really?
First, I agree with the argument that what you described is not grossly inappropriate but I will answer your above question. I have one of those toddlers that has never hit or bitten another person. She has been bitten before and I thought for sure this would set the stage for a change in her own behavior. But she didn't retaliate when the child bite her by hitting or biting the child back nor has she shown any interest in doing so since the incident. Oops ... I'm wrong! Thinking back .... about a week after the incident she did hit one of the kids and we had a nice long talk about it. She showed me that not only does she understand why it was wrong but also how she had no plans to do it again because she truly felt sorry for the act. Since that one incident she has never hit and certainly has never bitten.
