Table manners for a 22 month old

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How do you stop them throwing their food/loaded spoon, beaker of water on the floor and making an unholy mess every frickin meal?
Please I need help, ds was never a thrower and we would like to eat out without being ejected from people's homes, restuarants etc

You can't really, it is fun to watch though .

They do grow out of it though, just look at it as one of the 'fun' phases.

Oh, I had a plastic polythene type mat which I used to put under ds's highchair to catch the falling debris.

Only tip is to make sure they are hungry when they are sat down to food, then they're more likely to eat it rather than chuck it.

you can get those suction stick on bowls etc so they can't throw the whole thing on the floor. Saying that my lo would then spend the entire meal wrestling with the frigging thing and got increasingly frusterated as it didn't move so did not eat much. I think they do it to get a reaction so calmly picking the stuff up and not making a big deal of it may work.
It is a phase and the do grow out of it, really.

One of m friends says that as soon as her dd messes about she takes the food away. But if I did that everytime dd threw something she'd never eat anything.

i wouldn't recommend the suction bowl, i found the mess was far worse when a very determined 22mo old managed to un-suction it.!