When can/do you stop cutting grapes for toddlers?

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my nearly-2-yr-old insists on "no cuttin them" but in turn i insist on her biting them in half herself and not stuffing an entire handful in at once. for some reason she's taken to holding them up in pairs and insisting they're welly boots before eating them god i love toddlers

I still cut them up for my 8 year old for his lunch box.

I'm just that anyone else's toddlers eat fruit! Grapes are out of the question for DS1, he's a bananas only boy.

Well my 8yo's have them whole.. My just turned 3yo still has them cut so IMO it is somewhere in between....but where?

I thought it was 4. But might be wrong. I have just stopped cutting them for my 4 year old but then she was eating them whole at 1 until I read of the issues.

I stopped at about 2.

crikey! I stopped at 18m with dd, she opens the fridge and gets them herself

well yes - DD3 does open the fridge and helpself...but I cut up the vast kmajority,

She is a little 3yo so I guess I will keep going for another 6m or so....especially if they are the big ones

I stopped at about 4 with DD2 but all my DC know to bite the grape in half before eating it.

A friends 5 yr old chocked on a grape at school recently. Luckily the staff got it up.

choked*

I should say I only cut them up for my kids when they are eating them at playschool or school. Can't trust the staff to notice if they choke.

DD has been eating whole grapes since she was about 2. Seedless ones, though.

FBG - the point is that it will be very ifficult for anyone to get it up if they choke because of the way the skin reacts to water...

Ho ho. Mine are nearly seven and nearly five, and I'm still cutting up the grapes. I'll be sending them off to university with cut-up grapes in a lunchbox.

Which proves I am right to cut them up I think.

Mine are quick eaters..

As another poster said - even an older child can choke on a grape so I still cut them up. I have started to allow my 9yr old son to have them whole but I always nag him to "MAKE SURE YOU CHEW THEM!".

pfb I know!

I cut them up for my 3 oldest in school lunch boxes still but simply becuse a dd of a friend started to chooke on a grape at 4yrs old and it freaked me out so being overly paranoid they might choke at school, I cut them up. They seem to prefer them smaller anyway in packed lunches (more like sweets!).
Cut them up still for ds4 because he's not 2 yet and he stuffs all food in without any caution!