No Biting! by Karen Katz Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of No Biting!
Book Review: Another super cute Karen Katz book
Summary: 5 Stars
I love the drawing of the toddler biting another child! The book asks questions about whether biting, hitting, kicking, pushing are ok and then there is a lift the flap to say no and give another option. Love this author/artist for toddlers. Her books are very sweet and my 2 year old loves them.Book Review: Bad concept for young toddlers! Be warned.
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this book because my toddler's friends were starting to bite and hit and I thought I would teach mine before she started to do it as well. Instead of teaching her it's wrong to bite, hit, kick, push, etc. it taught her to do it. She never grasbed the idea of the second page that shows you what you can do instead. Ever since we read it the first time she now says, "Hit Friends!" "Hit Mommy" "Kick Dogs". I was reading in a childhood development book later that we shouldn't teach by saying, No or Don't do this. Instead we should teach by saying what we want them to do. When you give them the idea of we don't do something, they don't understand and they now have the idea that they can hit friends or kick dogs.
I'd recommend a book that says how toddlers should act like, we are gentle with animals. We hug our friends. Etc.
I had to hide this book.
Book Review: Be careful with this one
Summary: 2 Stars
I got this to teach my son not to bite, and it works fine for him and that behavior. However, my daughter who is 3 1/2 and who has had no problems with biting or causing trouble read it to herself. The book covers biting, hitting, and pushing, which she has long heard were wrong because they can hurt people. The book also covers spitting. This is really weird. I don't think toddlers have problems with spitting unless someone teaches them to do it. They do a page on "Don't spit on your brother" -- I don't think my daughter would have ever thought about this on her own, but next thing I know that evening she spits on her brother. We had to have a discussion about even though spitting doesn't hurt people, it is still wrong.I wouldn't recommend it, since it basically teaches children how to spit, and that they can spit at people -- even though they mention it is wrong, it puts the idea into the child's head. I think the author just needed one more page of bad behavior to finish the book and came up with spitting, which really doesn't fit as a bad toddler behavior.
Book Review: Buyer beware!
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this book in the start of January as I thought it might be great to have on hand when these dubious behaviors (hitting, pushing, biting) come into our lives with our 18 month old. Well, somehow along the way, my child gravitated toward "hitting mommy" and it's now a battle we're fighting every day. He loves reading the book and as his love for the book increases, so does his horrible hitting. I can't say it's a direct/exact correlation, but I wouldn't deny that over the past month and a half, we went from zero to frequent hitting. Obviously after making the connection this week through a conversation with another mom in the same situation (same book), it has suddenly disapppeared and will not return to our bookshelf.Book Review: Don't like intorducing all of these bad behaviors
Summary: 3 Stars
My son (who is just under 2) likes to have this book read to him but it's certainly not his favorite book (not even his favorite book if I ask him to get a no biting book). The only behavior problem we struggle with is biting. This book talks about all kinds of "bad" beahviors and gives kids an alternative. While I think this is a decent method, I feel like it has introduced the possibilities to my son. (Yes, he will probably witness or think about kicking and spitting and such on his own, but I don't really like that I'm reading about these things to him. So, even if I comment on these behaviors as we read I only read this book to my son if he brings it to me. (I don't select it on my own like I do the Teeth are Not for Biting book.)