20 month old taken to throwing food off the table - tackle or ignore?

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Am generally a "pick your battles" kind of person and DD2, bless her, is already turning into an "aha, got a reaction out of you, let's see how far we can push it" horror little monkey.

The food throwing has me in a quandry so I'm throwing it over to the MN jury! Tackle or ignore?

ahh I have one of these monkeys. I generally just take it as a sign he has finished and remove the rest of the food.

I would either ignore or just say breezily, 'have you finshed your dinner then?' and take her plate away.

Thanks! Was heading to that decision myself but nice to hear others would too. She's still frantically throwing food on floor or entertaining herself with her new joy in life - sticking peas up her nose!

So, as you seem to think in the same way as me - would you continue giving said child peas/ beans/ rice krispies and hope she just learns? Or would you decide, having excavated FOUR AND A BIT peas from up one nostril, that she is unlikely to learn and may indeed do herself some serious damage? This is not the first pea up nostril incident but it is the most impressive