Teatime battles - help

[wanderingwillows]

My 3yo is turning every teatime into a complete nightmare. We’ve recently let her ‘out’ of her highchair because frankly she is a bit old for it now and she also started to really resist it. But now we have issues:

1. getting her to sit still in a normal chair
2. not put her feet on the table
3. actually eat some food!! Rather than just faffing around

Whenever we’re firm with her over these things she just screams (literally). The screaming is driving me a bit insane. If she stops screaming, she’ll be off her chair or laying back etc. I tell her to sit up, she does, starts screaming again though. Round and round we go.
Any ideas of what to do? I say all the usual stuff like sit still and eat some food or there’ll be no games after tea, you’re going back in your high chair etc. eventually she is coaxed into doing what we need her to but not without a huge battle

We had a large sturdy wooden high chair and my son was in this until the Christmas after he joined school so we 4 and a bit. Tried him to eat at the table and it was a nightmare. My only suggestion is to get the chair back.