caring for my son's parrot

[bjams1]

My son brought home a gorgeous rosella about a month ago. He has been working with her very well, and it seems she is bonding well with him. I work from home, and I am with her basically 24-hours per day. He goes to school so is gone a few hours three days a week. For the first three weeks, she was great with me. He has been working with her, and as she started responding to him, he would bring me into the training, getting her to respond to me, and it has gone really well. In the last week, she has rapidly been pulling away from me. Anytime I get close, she assumes a defensive position and will bite me if I bring my hand near - once bit me when I was giving her a treat which never happened before - actually she had never bitten me until this past week.

I understand she will bond primarily with my son, but we really want her to be happy being with me since I'm with her all day every day and he is away a few hours three days a week. From reading posts on this site, it seems she will probably just tolerate me interacting with her.

Is that the best we can hope for?

[Wolf]

At this time the bird has tolerated you due to your sons presence, You got bit because you did not heed the birds warning, you came closer instead of waiting for the parrot to decide that you were not a threat. From your post it would appear that you are not totally in the dark concerning parrots and recognize at least some of the birds body language. This is a good thing and will be useful to you.
With that said, let's see if we can get you and the bird to trust each other a bit. I would like you to watch to see how close you can approach the bird in its cage before it shifts posture or starts to move away from you. This is your starting point. Once you have this point you need to sit with one side of your body facing the bird, so that you are not looking directly at the bird. Read, watch tv, listen to music or something that allows you to sit there and talk to the bird. It doesn't much matter what you are saying, you can even read from the book, just be sure to use a calm and soothing voice for this. Do this for about 10 to 15 minutes twice a day.
Repeat this process for each session starting with how close can you approach before the bird get nervous and starts to move away. Keep this up until you are sitting right outside of the cage.
Let me know when this step is completed and you are sitting right outside the cage talking to the bird.