2 year old wont feed herself with utensils

[teaandkittehs]

Hi all,
We introduced my little girl to a spoon a good few months ago, and more recently a fork. She can use them (not amazingly well, but well enough) but the novelty wore off very quickly and although she will eat with her hands, if it's food that required utensils, she will just leave it sitting there and we have to feed her. She turned 2 a few days ago. I don't want her to be stressed at neck times so am okay with feeding her for now, but eventually she will have to take over. I don't think she is yet capable of understanding the consequences of not eating so I'm not going to try any hard tactics yet like letting her miss a meal if she won't feel herself. I offer her loaded spoons and she refuses to take them. She will occasionally feed herself a bit but generally not interested. Any advice? Should i be concerned yet.

Not sure what others do, but if she is developmentally on par in other areas, i wouldnt worry.
my boy does a mix of feeding self and the. I often carry on when he gets bored or isnt too interested in feeding himself. At times i can put him down with his breakfast bowl, others i feed the entire meal.. if they are well developing they will eventually start doing it themselves, just keep giving her opportunity like you already are.

Thanks ever so much for the reassurance. Yes she is developing well and passing the ages and stages stuff, so doing fine in the main, so I'll not worry about it for now. She ate loads of homemade banana porridge for breakfast so she is clearly okay with the food, but just doesn't want to get it to her mouth herself and porridge isn't really one for eating with your hands so no way around it except to spoon feed her!

I wouldn’t worry at all about this. I spoon-fed mine a lot of them until they were much older than 2. My eldest is 15 now and well able to use a knife and fork! I still spoon feed my youngest her dinner most days as otherwise she takes ages - and she is 6.