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how old is he?

I don't have any suggestions, but I'm sorry you guys have to deal with this! It must be really hard.
Does the daycare have any suggestions?

Have his teachers tried shadowing him to catch him before he bites?

What do they do when he bites?

I have no advice right now - S has started biting her hand or the couch when she gets frustrated, so I'm afraid we're heading that direction. I hope you get some good advice or that he moves through this phase quickly!

Its sounds like you are doing everything right and he just needs a little more time. My DS was a biter at that age too - he bit 8 times - I was freaking out and didn't know what to do. Teachers shadowed him, we read books about not biting, they gave him a toy he could bite, etc. Then one day it just stopped - like it finally all sunk in!

Just hang in there - I know its super stressful ~hugs~

Your child is clearly evil and needs to be kicked out of daycare. Really? People say that to you??!?!? Wow.

In all seriousness, physical responses (biting, kicking, hitting) are sooooo common when kids have difficulty expressing frustration or anger (totally legit emotions) and need an immediate response. I am sure your daycare provider has a lot of good advice on this, but a lot of what I have read/heard about focuses on giving kids this age a specific set of instructions/commands to use when they feel frustrated or angry. I believe it goes something like, "stop," "no thank you," and "walk away now." It's not nice/considerate language, but it allows toddlers to use words rather than actions. Not sure if any of this is helpful or not - but I think the biggest thing is that you ARE working on it. It's going to take time. And, really, people who live in glass houses...

No advice, other than Aha Parenting posted an article about preschool and biting yesterday that said pretty much exactly what you're already doing! Sounds like he just needs a wee bit more time to put it together. I have no idea who would be judgemental of your child's totally normal developmental stage! It could happen to any parent!

@littlek: Can you train your LO to perform another specific action when someone takes his things? The "incompatible behavior" trick is pretty incredible at getting toddlers to stop doing things:

http://www.hellobee.com/2013/04/22/what-shamu-taught-me-about-happy-toddlers/

@littlek: Biting is so stressful - you are worried that kids are hurt, but upset/worried that your child is struggling, and wondering what others must think of you. Well, biting says nothing about your parenting skills! What are his triggers? In my experience (working with 2s in a daycare), it's really hard to replace the biting with words. Toddlers know the words, but when they are feeling so emotional they don't often have enough self-control to remember and use them. It's good they're shadowing him and hopefully they can intervene as soon as a trigger comes up to talk him through it. It's absolutely great to do everything outside of the situation (reading books, giving him words, acknowledging his feelings), but an adult mediating right in the moment is most effective for stopping the biting from happening.

I like mrbee's suggestion of giving him a replacement behavior. So, if he's angry that he can't use a toy and wants to bite, a teacher could offer a stress ball to squeeze or a thick crayon so he could scribble hard on a piece of paper to physically let go of his frustration.

I think one of the bees had a post a while back about using social stories/puppets to help their child practice appropriate behavior. I know we use them with kindergarteners, but I'm not sure if there are any that are appropriate for toddlers. Maybe that's worth looking into if the biting continues?

C bites, but she's kind of slow moving on her vocabulary so I'm thinking she just can't express herself well enough yet. She's almost 18 months, so I'm not going to assume she can fully communicate yet, but its hard! Daycare shadows and kids bite her too so she learns that it isn't pleasant. I'm hoping she can grow out of it as she's finally starting to have a language burst over the last few weeks.

@littlek: Just wondering if you ever found a solution that worked for you? L is the biter in his classroom right now and I feel awful. At this point I've tried everything I can think of short of physically responding to his bite. I have been asked to meet with the director this week to go over the logs and their policy. (I initiated this conversation last week.) I just downloaded "NO BITING" which has been recommended in a couple of different forums I've found. I know it sucks to have your kid bitten - it has happened to L - but it also sucks to have your kid being the serial biter.