How to stop the food chucking

[teddytummy]

Dd is 13 months, and a right sod when it comes to chucking her food off the highchair. I know it's a common thing but I'm getting fed up of having to clear it all off the floor and walls and then she's whinging because she's hungry.
Anyone have any advice?

If anyone has the answer I want to hear it too...

Sitting on bench beside Joan awaiting answers

Give her less at a time. Provide plate/bowl for discarded food and encourage this instead, maybe keep it off the high chair if the concept offends her though. Not much else you can do...

I'm glad I'm not the only one! (Sorry).
Do you offer something else when they are hungry again? Just feels like such a waste of food and don't want her to learn that that is okay.

Thanks Bertie I'll give that a try and see how we get on. To be honest anything is worth a go

As frustrating as it is I ignored it. She doesn’t do it anymore (just turned 2). I never told her off or acknowledged it. She just grew out of it.

My 13MO went through a phase of this. I did not too much food on the plate at once, at least one item on the plate I know will be eaten as it’s a favourite, eating with her and saying calmly Mummy/Daddy aren’t throwing food but otherwise ignoring it. And I didn’t offer alternative food, if it was dinner I’d give more milk before bed but otherwise she had to wait until the next meal. It mostly stopped in about a week but she still does it to indicate she’s full and done with eating. At which point her plate is promptly removed. If anything made a difference it was definitely eating with her but I was probably just lucky that it was a brief phase. Good luck!

Get a dog!

I just ignore it
My husband likes to tell him off but it just makes dc do it more!

I put a waterproof mat on the floor for my son and returned the food on it while he was looking for a pigeon I thought I might have spotted in the garden. He ate a lot more that way. I never returned food while he was looking in case he thought it was a game for me to fetch what he threw.

Womcombat I have a dog! Unfortunately she doesn't clean up stains from the walls and carpet, I'd be on to a winner if she did

Mine were 6 months, 18 months and 3. I used to feed them in a mat on the floor. Meant at least the table was clean.

Definitely put a vinyl may down and ignore it.

Exactly in six months there will be a different drama.

Thank you for this thread- my DD 12 months is a little madam in the high chair, anything she’s done with can’t possibly be near her- on the floor it goes.

10-month-old DD here. Exactly the same... We do tell her off and tell her to leave it if she doesn't want it or she's full.
During the summer we can at least eat on the terrace outside, so chucking stuff off the highchair doesn't create too much mess 😂.

It does get better if we don't give her too much choice, though . She does seem to get overwhelmed with more than two bits on her tray.

My 13m old is the same and I remember my dd doing it too. I just say "no we don't throw" and that's that. He still does it though!

I remember my dd used to woosh everything off her tray at the end of her meal. SO annoying.

I've been enjoying eating in the garden so the mess is less of a hassle!