Re: When does food throwing stop?


"Just me :)" <ladeedada@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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mandymoon5000@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
My 14 month old DD throws her food on the floor when she's full or when
she doesn't like something. Up until now, I've ignored this behaviour.
This week, I've started calmly removing her highchair tray as soon as
the first piece of food hits the floor. Mealtime is done. When should
I starting telling her that "Food is for eating, not for throwing."?

Mandy (eternally mopping)

Seems every child has a way of saying when they're full or not interested in
eating. DD, when she was about 4ish months old was eating some baby cereal
for breakfast and supper. I had kind of taught her to blow raspberries,
kind of :D It's just something I always did to her and she started doing it
back at me, then shortly after, she started spitting her cereals out when
she didn't want to eat anymore. I had warned my aunt one time about this
when we droped the kids off with her for an evening out. I told her about
how much DD normally will eat, and she'd know DD was done eating if she
first started keeping her mouth shut, and then if you still forced just a
bit more, she'd spit it all out. My aunt did learn the hard way, covered in
food!
Your DD just might be full and lost interest in eating. There's really
nothing wrong with that.

My DS is 11.5 mths and we've been telling him "NO" when he starts
to throw food/drop it off his try since the first time it happened.
We don't do much else right now, because he is so young. If it's
his sippy or a spoon he throws or drops then we take it off his tray.
But he does know "NO" when he hears it. And sometimes he will
bring whatever he was going to drop back onto the tray if I tap it.
(not always, or a lot).

I agree. Consistency is best, even at a young age.

Keeping only a small amount of food on his tray at a time helps, he
tends to just "play" with more than 2 or 3 pieces after eating the
first few. You can try giving her only a few pieces at a time.

That's a good idea. Only offer a small amount, and when that's done, offer
a little bit more. Always keeping enough on there to finger and eat, but
not enough to maybe overwhelm her.

I think others may have better advice, but I'd say it's not to
early for a "no", she may not remember not to do this from day to
day or meal to meal, but it's a start.

I don't think it's too early for no. DD is 8 months and she does seem to
stop and hear no - be it throwing food down, pulling hair - something she
loves to do for some reason - climbing on things she shouldn't, attacking
the cat or dog... I remember when DS was doing this, around the same age as
your DD, I know that I used a firm No, and if he still did it, I would grab
his hand firmly but not hard and put it back on the tray, if he was about to
toss food to the floor, and I would firmly say, "No, we do not put food on
the floor. Food stays on our plate/table/tray/mouth."

I can't remember where I ordered them, but we have these big plastic
mats that we put under DS's highchair, makes for easier cleanup of
even unintentional spills :)

Here, you can find them at a few larger department stores that have a fairly
bigger baby section, as well as baby stores carry them often and you can
sometimes get lucky with a kids' consignment store. Also, those mats
intended for computer or office chairs to save hardwood or lino - not the
carpet, assuming you have hardwood or lino/tiles in your dining area, work
great, or if you do have carpet in your dining area, the chair rolling mats
work just as good.

Good luck!
Al



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