[Wrath]

Please don't bite your dog on the face...good lord. Am I the only one who thinks that's shakey advice? I'm not a big fan of the alpha roll (holding them on their back), I've heard too many things against it. We did do that with Jaxom as a pup and no harm seemed to come of it but probably no good either. We had more success with other techniques like hand feeding, restricting his access to furniture and our bed, etc...typical alpha establishing exercises.

I missed how old your son is, but seems like he's playing with the pup. I would imagine that he crawls off the couch, the puppy dashes at him, and he screams and dashes back up on the couch. This may be cute now, but when your puppy hits 5 or 6 months, she's going to be in a major awkward stage where she's way to big for her brain, and chasing the child at that point is VERY dangerous. Our nephew came to visit us when Jaxom was around 6 mos, and of course he was running around with typical 4 year old exuberance. Dashing about, screaming in piercing high picthed tones, basically doing an excellent impression of prey. Jaxom LOVED it of course. He loped around behind him and before we could stop him, he jumped up and planted his paws in our nephew's back. His newfound bulk sent our nephew sprawling into the furniture and busted his lip open. They were both just playing but the damage was done. I'll spare you the horror stories of children left alone with 3 or four of the family pets in the backyard.

Your child needs instruction as well and shouldn't be left in situation where you can't immediately intervene between him and your dog (or any dog or that matter). See if you can get your child to get of the couch in a calm manner and not dash back up because the puppy chases him. I think teaching them safe games to play is a great idea, especially retrieve as it redirects your puppy's prey drive to a toy rather than your child, but your son should never be allowed to play with the dog unsupervised...very important.

Good luck with the classes, I'm sure you'll get a lot out of it. :)