Hello , so our little one has gotten to that age where not every time but sometimes when you feed him , he is either slapping the food around by waving his arms causing it to fly if not careful and the same with his bowl and even getting to the point he is fully refusing the food that at that time . I want to hear everyones advice and stories on how they overcome this I used to be a support worker for adults and I want to find the most positive approaches going around this rather then having to restrain him by holding his arms to eat as it doesn’t really work and only escalates the situation rather then de-escalate now as you will see in the image I have attached I have found one persons advice and it was a successful approach as I write this message I have just tried this method and it has worked , I was feeding him breakfast and he was being silly and I was thinking how can I get round this as I remember mum was having a difficult time with this too so I went online as usually people have advice and there wasn’t much on this topic anyway the method I tried: when he was slapping his food round etc I tried one last time and went well I guess you don’t want any/your full instead of chucking the food away I put it aside out of view so he thinks breakfast was over I then put him back down on the floor to play and he played for around 5/10 mins had a temper tantrum at first and I didn’t react as much as i knew it was a false cry anyway once he had calmed down and started playing after the 5/10 mins he started winging for food now we know the different crys in babys they have a hungry cry a sad one etc and he cried out that he was hungry so I showed him his bowl of food that I had set aside and he winged more that he wanted it so I put him back in his high chair still with his pjs on so his day clothes dont get messy and he eat it at first with no problem he ate the first two spoonfuls successfully and then started to wave around but not as much as he had realised he is hungry and needs to eat I knew he liked the meal and that wasn’t the case so I just stayed patient showed him the bowl at a distance and he continued to eat and ate the lot and it was a positive way around it but i feel like there are more positive ways and I want to see everyone’s story on how they managed to de-escalate the situation.