to move the fruit bowl out of dd's reach?

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DD is 21 months, a climbing fiend. Also loves fruit... so three or four times a day I'll have to pull her down off the dining table where she's trying to grab at the fruit bowl. EG while I was making tea just now, she clambered up and grabbed an apple and a pear, took a bite out of each and then put them back. I wouldn't mind so much if she hadn't had a banana half an hour previously on the way back from the park.

So if I put it where she can't reach, I'm controlling her access to what is after all a healthy snack. But at the same time it stops the constant discovery of half-eaten fruit around the house...

What's the answer?

Move the bowl.

Just move the bowl.

I put it out of reach of DD2 until I was satisfied she wouldn't glut herself on the lot or take a bite out of everything like yours! Now she can reach it (she is 3) and she will ask for things before going to get something.

Move it.

Move the bowl. She doesn't need unfettered access to food. My baby would do the same if I let him which would mean no fruit for packed lunches for everyone else.

Righto, need to clear another space somewhere for it! Everything that used to be on the dining table is now piled onto the shelf... As long as I'm not being mean and evil by stopping her helping herself when she's hungry.

Controlling access to healthy snack is fine Just because something is healthy doesn't mean she has to have it whenever she wants. She shouldn't live entirely on fruit, and you have your budget and other family members to consider.

Is this some kind of first - a unanimous IANBU? = (hope I've not xposted now...!)

A 21 month old doesn't necessarily recognise hunger, more like - see something, put it in mouth, on to next thing.

And I don't like such young children eating unsupervised, as there's a choking risk.

Why don't you cut up one or two pieces of fruit a day and leave it in the fridge where she can reach it - that way she can still have a little control ...or at least thinks she does.

If she was hungry, she'd eat the whole thing not just a bite.
I can usually tell the age of the child in the house by how high the tide mark is of fragile and small stuff is. Move the bowl.

You's let a 21 month old have free access to the fridge?
I wouldn't do that either.

Nor me - they'd steal my chocolate

I don't think that a baby needs free access to any food.

hah hah sassy

op

move bowl

also think about moving dining chairs so that she can't get up to the table top

Just move the bowl. She can chose a piece of fruit at snacktime or after a meal, so it's not like you're threatening to starve her.

We definitely don't let her get into the fridge, every time I open the door she's trying to get the milk bottles out so that's got a little locky thing on it :)

The difficulty with moving the dining chairs is that we've only got the one room downstairs (living/dining room in a one), so there's nowhere to move the chairs to. Have put bowl on top shelf of bookcase where she definitely can't get to, thanks for reassuring me I'm not being mean!

She does not need free access to it, if she is having one bite and chucking it then she is just using it as a toy/for fun, not taking it due to hunger. Give her meals and snacks in the day @ regular intervals and she will be fine

YANBU. I remember a time when EVERY apple in fruit bowl had a bite in it! I moved that bowl off the dining room table quick smart. Although thought it was very cute. DS was about that age.

His love for apples has not diminished and he now eats a green apple every single day (nearly 15). I think his perfect teeth (according to dentist ) is a result of this apple affair.

I would not give a baby access to my fridge; my alcopops are fruit-flavoured .

def move bowl and if you find a half chewed pear/apple then cut off the brown bits and give back to her after her lunch/tea

nothing annoys me more than finding a small chunk taken out of fruit and then placed back in the bowl