To think that my one year old daughter should realise that yoghurt is NOT finger food ..

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The yoghurt is in her hair, her ears, her nappy... needless to say its almost everywhere else except inside her!

Wouldn't life be simpler for everyone if my daughter let me spoonfeed her?

I feel your pain. My dd screams if I try to spoon feed her yogurt, she prefers to stick her whole hand in the pot them smear it all over her face and hair.

Isn't it supposed to be good for them to eat with their hands - to feel their food, feel the texture, explore their food, etc.

Pretty messy though!

I sympathise - my DD was an independent one ont he feeding front and wouldn#'t let me spoonfeed either.

At least she's trying it...I've put off redecorating my dining room for at least another 12 months until DD2 18 months stops helping me with the project. No spoons here either she is little miss independence.

YABU. Yoghurt's main purpose in life is to give toddlers something to smear everywhere.

Try giving her banana/pear/apple to dip in it. Diverted my DS enough that I had marginally less mess to clean up. Or give her the spoon and retreat out of flicking territory as she may decide to eat it if given the spoon

My DD (2.8) is still convinced that jelly is finger food...

When she was younger, she used to do a yoghurt beauty treatment every day - a sort of all over body wrap.

I could have just wrote this about my ds...fingers into everything. This included his first birthday cake, put his hand in, got a bit and shoved it in his mouth

Just like his mummy would have done

YABU. DS will happily explain to you that yoghurt, cottage cheese, applesauce, etc., are obviously finger foods, given their tremendous ability to be used as finger paint! He is fully capable of using utensils, but some things he just can't resist squishing in his hands!

My ds won't eat anything he hasn't kneaded thouroughly first, including soup, porridge and yoghurt !

hold on a minute-yoghurt is NOT finger food??

I'm still struggling to get my 3.6 yr old to stop eating spagetti bolognese with her hands. Don't expect a fast resolution on this one!

In my house we thought it was shampoo

I had to dunk 16-month DD in the bath after her lunch! Of course, she washed off and then immediately poo-d in the bath

I fed my 16 month old peas last night, I thought I couldn't go wrong with peas.

Did you know that if you really carefully peel the skin off a pea and extract the smushy stuff inside, it makes excellent moisturiser?

At least it took so long I managed my own meal for a change.

Er yes...she's one. It's annoying but a fact of life and sorry to say it continues until well into their twos.
Just try not to stress, get loads of wipes and really...at least she's eating and healthy. xxx

My daughter has on several occasions managed to eat soup with a fork. It does take a while though.

YABU - its all part of being a one year old, smearing liquid (and not so liquid but smushed up nicely) food all over yourself and your immediate - and not so immediate- surroundings. DS2 (nearly 15 months) regularly gives himself a yoghurt hairwash in the mornings....

It's the only thing The Cub lets me feed him as he can't get it in his mouth fast enough by himself.

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I accidently left the lid from the yoghurt on the table. DS rather cleverly used it as a sort of spoon by dipping it in and slurping the yoghurt off. It would have been less messy it he had used his hands.

Ah DawnTigga - DS2 was the same but at around 14 months his love affair with yoghurt ended and the yoghurt shampoos started...

No, yoghurt is for drinking. Particularly the ones in the large pots that drip down your front, whilst you attempt to drink it. The bits of the front of your clean dress maybe wiped off with your fingers and smeared on the cats face. Cats just love yoghurt face masks you know.

It's wibbly wobbly (jelly) that is a finger food. Especially the sloppy jelly with fruit in you buy in the shops. The raspberries inside it are for making red paint which is good for the redecorating of walls/tables/floors and making the dog look all pretty and pink.

i have a 13 month old dd, she can use a spoon and likes to spoon it out of the pot and into her hand! yoghurt is for after tea because she goes straight into the bath

i have a friend that feeds her baby yoghurt and porrige in the bath

Now I've cracked this with dd. You just need lots of spoons. Once she's got each hand full with 3 or 4 of them I can just about manage to post the yoghurt in with another...

Ds aged 19 months knows to eat yoghurt and fruit pots with his spoon. And mostly decides that the yog/fruit should go in his mouth, as opposed to being carefully applied to his trousers to make patterns.

What he hasn't sussed is that getting the whole potful onto the spoon and then admiring his huge spoonful for ages isn't the greatest way of achieving it...

My son is 19mths old and still prefers to eat everything with his hands. I have to scrape cornflakes off his highchair and off the floor every morning...

For my ds, weetabix was a finger food!