Havent read all the replies, but as a last resort, could you spray the childrens hands in chew deterent (make sure the kids dont taste it! ITS FOUL!!!) might make the pup think again about chewing people?

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- that's an off-label use & not recommended:
chewing is not bites or nips, it's sustained contact of tongue & object.
it's about taste & time of exposure: duration. TEETH do not taste what they touch.

- if the dog was chewing people that would be a completely different problem.

- keeping the kids from tasting it at some point is virtually impossible; children are less aware of what they touch,
& casually touching ANYthing that then goes in their mouth - like a cookie? - transfers the taste. Blecch.
so... nothing by mouth except from a cup or glass, while they WEAR something not meant
for direct-skin exposure? Yipe!

- nobody tests taste-deterrents for human-safety re skin transfer - some chemicals go right thru
the skin & directly into the bloodstream, so i owuld not ever advise putting anything on skin that should not
be made to use on skin. the only exceptions are things that can be eaten; if i can eat it, i can wear it.

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just keep repeating it will get better it WILL get better

just keep doing what your doing with the training and you will get amazing dog that you signed up for :0)

they just need showing the right way to behave, just like kids heh
mine is currenlty at the 'teenage' phase.... but as we put a lot of training into him as a young un he is not as bad as I thought he would be.... he just has VERY selective hearing! if you say no, off, here, away or leave it he doesnt seem to hear you..... but if you say, cheese, ham, treat or dinner he hears you VERY well!

aaaah you gotta love em.