Food and cutlery throwing

[Laur89]

Hey guys, so my DS is 2 and 3 months, and for the past month he has been throwing his cutlery on the floor throughout every meal non stop to the point where it seems it's almost too distracting to have cutlery. Then he will start throwing food also 🤦‍♀️ any advice on how to stop this type of behaviour? Thanks all!

What do YOU do ?
What have you done to stop it in the past month? Your response now need to be determined because you let it go on for so long and it is now an habit for him.

The second he starts, I would remove plate, cutlery and glass from his reach and remove him from the table while the rest of the family keeps easting. Of course, he will start crying, then you ask him calmly: do you want to eat or do you want to throw. If he says "eat," bring him back to table, and give food back, if he does it again, do the same thing, but this time, stand up and put his plate in the sink, then ignoring him, go back back to table.
It has become a game for him, you need to make it not fun and with a very short response to him. Your attention to him will be 2 seconds, no more.
After the third attempt, food goes in the bin and you tell him he will eat at dinner.
And please do not give him biscuits after 15 min.

Wow that's harsh! I'm sorry but that is just a bit OTT. He's 2 years old, she shouldn't be taking his food away and starving him if he doesn't do immediately what she says!

I didn't say immediately, I said at the third consecutive throw .
If this habit had been nipped in the bud, it would have been easier .

It has been going on for a month, so I guess the soft approach has been already tried.

The above method is way too harsh IMO. Just IGNORE it. Just explain that that's not how we eat, take cuttlery away if needed and make them clean up any mess before they can play etc. Part of discipline IMO is say what you mean and mean what you say.... are you genuinely going to let a child go hungry because they're not yet confining to your standard? If so you're borderline abusive imo and if not then don't threaten it because your kid isn't daft. PP is right that you need to make this not a game but you can do that by simply not rising to them rather than witholding nutrition and causing them to go hungry or develop an unhealthy relationship with food

As a French living in Australia, i find these answers fascinating and they explain why French children don’t throw food and why Australian do.
If you step in a French café and look at mothers and babies or toddlers having a patisserie, both the mother and child will eat without making a mess. Step into an Australian café and the scenario is very different and often it would take two members of staff to clean after them.
From the earliest age, when we teach to eat, we teach how to eat at the same time.
A child throw three times his food, food is gone. Period.
I am not withholding nutrition, by throwing the food child thrice , the child is rejecting nutrition so off it goes.
And in today’s culture of constant snacking and grazing, the stomach never stays empty for long.
And seriously developing an unhealthy relationship with food? Quite the opposite, in France food is meant to be eaten not a game, a comforter or a way to fill time or placate tantrums, so our relationship with food is quite healthy.

@LeGrandBleu I went on exchange to France when I was 16, to Bourges, and fell in love with the ash pyramid goats cheeses they make in that region. I've never been able to find them again apart from when I visited France again many years later. Do you know of any cheesemakers in Australia that make them?

Et voilà
yvd.com.au/our-cheeses-fresh/our-cheeses-fresh-ashed-pyramid/ @TigerQuoll

Thank you @LeGrandBleu!!! Will be adding a few of these to Xmas cheese platters :-D