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Food throwing - its driving me insane!

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zebedeethezebra · 28/03/2011 13:52

DS is 14 months old and can feed himself with a spoon! Great you may think, only in the last couple of months he has decided that he will load up the spoon, have a mouthful (but there's always some left on the spoon) and then wave the spoon around in the air so that the rest of the food flies around the kitchen. Sometimes he just loads up the spoon and waves it around, not even taking a mouthful.

We haven't laughed at this, even though it was hilarious when a splat of yoghurt landed on DP's forehead Grin.

If I say no, he thinks that's even more hilarious and ignoring it doesn't help either.

I take the bowl away now if he does it and spoon feed him which seems like a bit of a backward step. And he won't always let me spoon feed him. Then after 5 minutes, if I put the bowl back, to let him have another go, he'll take a couple more mouthfuls nicely then go back to waving the spoon around again.

Its driving me mad and I'm sick of so much floor mopping. Putting newspaper down doesn't really help as the food flies such a distance, its always where the newspaper isn't, if you see what I mean.

Will DS eventually grow out of this? What else can I do?

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PrincessConsuelaBananaHamok · 28/03/2011 16:42

completely aggravating normal

he is still refining the technique, and needs lots of practice

try to let him do it himself

as ever, tis a stage and will pass

in a year's time you'll look back and chisel dried weetabix from the skirting board laugh

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