When I was about three years old, my cousin Cathy’s parents moved their tiny egg-shaped trailer house under a big shade tree in our front yard. It was about as roomy as a nice bathtub. Like any right-thinking parents with two tiny children, they quickly moved into the house with our family, leaving us with four adults, a six-year-old, a three-year-old, an eighteen month old, and two newborns in a three bedroom house. The women cooked, cleaned and watched the kids together every day. Mother said it was a great time.
Pictured above are my cousin Cathy and me. She was much smaller though only a year younger than I. She also developed a nasty habit of biting. After I was bitten a few times, Mother told me to “bite her back.” She didn’t specify how hard.
The next time Cathy bit me, I bit her just below the eye and hung on. Cathy screamed and Mamas came running. Still I hung on. Mother told me to turn loose but I was too wrought up to hear her. She had to smack me to make me turn loose. It hurt my feelings. “You told me to bite her.”
“I didn’t tell you to bite a chunk out of her face.!”
Cathy had a bruise showing all my tooth prints. It turned from purple to green to yellow. I’m sorry, Cathy.
Nutsrok 
My mother would have told you the same thing, “Bite her back!”
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When I told my son that he went around and bit the kid’s back.
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How exciting your life was! :)
I never had a biter cross my path.
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You were lucky
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I love this picture of you and your biting cousin…..as opposed to kissing cousin:)
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I liked hearing your story of a biting cousin. I had one, too. I was told to just bite her back, so I chased her around trying to bite her on her back but I couldn’t catch her. haha :)
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:) I’m sure she deserved it! When I was young my aunt’s dog bit me on the face. I still have the scar. I’m sure I deserved it too but my mom wasn’t too happy about it.
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I’ll bet she was upset!
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Young children biting happens, thankfully I don’t remember any of my girls as biters, however, my nephew Dawson sure was when he was young, right up to the age of 6 or 7.
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That’s a long time to be a biter. It looks like some kid would have nailed him and cured him before that.
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By the time he started school he didn’t do it much thankfully and he had been bitten back at times but it didn’t stop him doing it
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