Caring Cutlery - it seems to work!!!

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Just wanted to share how happy I am this morning: DS(3) ate his entire breakfast using his spoon - something he's NEVER done before

I just hope it's becuase of the new cutlery and not a one off fluke...

Oh, PS I've changed my name (I was Vixen1)...

fab

hope it continues

Glad it works for you. I've chucked ours. The spoon had horrible sharp edges that DS2(4.9) hated in his mouth and he found it harder to hold than an ordinary teaspoon. We still have to feed him.

That's great.

I've just bought the knife and fork for ds1 after he tried it with the OT at his assessment this week and it was big success.

Didn't buy the spoon though as he can manage a normal one-ish (still gets every other mouthful in his lap - usually just before he spills his drink).

Moosemama - Oh God, drink spill is a nightmare!! Thankfully he does it a lot less now but still every so often, for no apparent reason, usually in a public place and then gets VERY upset ...

ouryve - Oh dear, I hadn't noticed sharp edges, did they develop over time or there from the start? Do you feed him because he can't feed himself or because he refuses to use cutlery, instead using his hands? I'm just curious because DS has recently been refusing to eat his dinner unless I do it for him. Not sure if he's doing it because his cutlery is so cumbersome and we're always nagging him to use it or whether it's just a 3 year old phase... hope I'm not still spoon feeding him when he's a teenager

Thanks bigcar

DS2 will feed himself if a food is fairly dry to touch and is beginning to be happy to touch stickier stuff (he's pretty revolting after eating peanut butter!) but he cannot coordinate himself to use cutlery at all, since his gross motor skills are very delayed. Even when he tries to stab something with a fork, he stabs randomly at the plate and he very quickly gives up. We did manage to get him to feed himself thick yoghurt with a spoon, but he was very messy and quickly became flustered when he got it all over his hands and face and gave up. He won't even try with anything else - unless it's brown and carby, eating is something he'd happily give a miss!

Brown, dry and carby - that sounds VERY familiar!! My DS would live on breadsticks and dry toast if I let him...

Although he manages to handle sticky stuff quite well - a bit too well sometimes!! I give the boys two jelly beans as a reward for doing some alphabet work and DS will suck it then keep spitting it out to hold it. He'll then keep putting it down on the sofa to look at it and flap, it gets VERY messy - still preferable to holding it in his mouth next to his teeth which would be his preference though!

Neither of my boys really like sweets. DS1 quite likes those haribo things, in small quantities, but ends up throwing anything away.

Chocolate, on the other hand... usually ends on both hands, actually, and faces and all the furniture!!

DS2's ultimate treat is crisps. His 1:1 has to take him to eat his lunch elsewhere when other kids have crisps because he will unabashedly wrestle them for his favourite crunchy brown things!!!