DD is just 18months. She has always loved her food and took to weaning like a pro. She eats and likes pretty much everything. She eats perfectly at the CM of course (she goes for half-days) and has apparently never ever not finished what she's given.
However for about the last month she has taken to refusing her dinners for me and it's driving me insane.
I really don't believe that it's my cooking. I haven't changed what I give her. She is too impatient to use her spoon most of the time (hands shovel food into mouth faster - why'd she bother?) and I'm wondering if this sudden bad behaviour is to do with the fact that DH and I over-encourage her to use her spoon. Now she just will not eat at all, but plunges her hands deep into her food, watching me all the while, and squidges it around.
I have just shouted at her and removed her briskly from her high chair. Am not proud of this and know I am being completely U but messing with food winds me up like nothing else (not least because of all the ruined good food and time spent cooking it!). She IS hungry, I know this for a fact. I do not want dinner to become a battleground but I am very reluctant to just take away her food altogether until she eats. Despite her good appetite is she is teeny-tiny. Has anyone got any advice?
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Losing my shit with 18mo and dinnertime
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Descriptivist · 30/07/2013 17:17
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