to wanto serve DD's food on the floor?

[ZingWidge]

I mean just what is the point of a plate or bowl? ever?

she is 15 months old. she tips, pours and throws at least half of her food on the floor.
then she wants to get down only to pick up all the bits and shove them in her mouth.

so of course I let her, but I wonder what if I just put her food on the floor. should I?

the phrase "my floor is so clean you can eat off of it" has a new version in my head. it's now "my floor is so clean because she eats off of it! "

aaarrrrrggghhh

My son still prefers the floor as his choice of plate. He's 2.5

The DD of a friend of mine refused to eat and would only BF but strangely she would often eat things she found on the floor so the HV told my friend to put things on the floor for her to eat but she couldn't bring herself to do it

I actually do this! My dd is also 15 months and she is far happier sitting on the floor with her meal with her hands. She is very independent so I am sure blw enthusiasts would approve but I do wonder when she will learn to eat properly, at a table, with cutlery... oh well my DS has picked it up somehow so I trust she will figure it out eventually.

I do have extremely clean floors before anyone considers reporting me for treating he as the family puppy!

Eating her meal...

IMO she should have taken the HV advice on that occasion

Ds is 14 months and eats everything directly from the highchair tray. He has yet to get his hands on a plate! :)

My DD2 once ate carbonara directly from her highchair tray, you just brought back some nice memories for me Daurylea

Fairylea

I have wondered the same thing. My DD is 8.5 months and is a pretty reluctant eater. Things on the tray get swished merrily onto the floor. When I eventually give up and take her out I will often find her making a bee line for the very things she disgarded. She sits with real concentration pincering tiny pieces of soggy toast and rice cakes into her mouth then holding them there with both hands.

I am voting stripped naked and on the floor

My dd is almost 4 and still throws a good 90% of all her food onto the floor out of bowls and plates and perfers to eat off the floor and uses her fingers instead of cutlery rather than sat at her table with a fork or spoon!

She has ASD though and doesn't understand how to use cutlery properly or that meals are supposed to be eaten at a table on a plate/in a bowl...My floor is always nice and clean though when its not covered in food she's thrown and I still put all her meals on the table,not sure why I bother when I know it will end up on the floor after a few minutes...principle I suppose.

fairylea when my brother and I were small, if my mum wanted a period of time to do something, she'd put us in the high chair and put a handful of cooked peas on the tray.

HV was always amazed by our hand-eye coordination...!

My DD was 2 mid June, she is brilliant with cutlery, but with finger foods (sandwiches, pizza, fruit etc) I usually just give her a plate and let her decide where she wants to eat it. 10 times out of 10, she picks the floor :o

Once when mine were being foul at the table I snapped and said they could eat off the floor like dogs and put their plates on newspaper and told them to get on with it. They thought it was fantastic, ate everything and barked all evening. After that they begged every meal time to be allowed to be dogs again . Needs a hoist by my own petard emoticon. They still laugh about it now - "ooh if we upset her at lunch she'll feed us like dogs". In front of DS's girlfriend too. Oh dear weak. Tis hard this parenting lark. It was about 13 years ago too - and they won't let it drop.

Borrow a dog - my nieces never threw their food as there were 3 large dogs waiting to eat it all. They only ever discarded what they did not actually want to eat.

Oh this reminds me of dc1. She wouldn't eat off a plate but pick food off the floor. So I started sitting her on the floor (it was a clean floor) with her food on it and she loved it. Was quite a picky eater before that and then ate everything off the floor. Things like pasta,veg,fruit,toast etc.

And don't worry,by the age of four she was sitting at a table using cutlery.

@ married and your "puppies"

babymakes oh I'm not worried about her having table manners eventually, as long as they can use a fork and a spoon well by 2 I'm happy.

my youngest son is 3 and is learning to use a knife. he does prefer eating with his fingers though (as do I!) but perefectly capable eating with cutlery.

yesterday I put DD in the higchair, chiken noodles on tray. she ate some then started swimming in it, food flying everywhere!
ffs!

Similar experience to Married - The quietest meal time for ages in this house was when my 3 (7, 5 and 2yo) had been pretending to be dogs all day and wanted their tea served on plates on the floor in the kitchen. They ate every scrap, even the veg-dodging 2yo, and there was no arguing or fighting - bliss!