Throwing food on the floor

[zebedeethezebra]

DS is nearly 11 months and practically everything I give as a finger food gets thrown on the floor at the moment. Any tips??

Just bumping because my DD has just started doing this....

C'mon people!!?

Even to the point where they don't get ANYTHING for their tea, cos they've thrown it all on the floor?

Jinglebells - when can I pick it up then? Do I have to take him out of the room?

i had this with dd. i would just not comment when she threw stuff, just ignore it. when it had all gone i would take her out of her high chair. and if i felt she hadnt eaten enough i would give her something else in say an hour or so. so it didnt give her a sense of that if she threw, it would a)become a game or b)the food would get replaced

and now at 18mo she is quite a tidy eater :)

buy cheepo shower curtain, put under the chair.

Give one thing only at a time to hold in hands,

Then hold breath and wait....as with everything, this is a phase and it too will pass.

oh yeah agree with putting something on the floor under their highchair. newspaper is good because you can just pick it all up together and chuck it in the bin. i still do that now but i am ocd--

Already got a shower curtain - we are BLW so it has been essential. Up to now she has dropped quite a bit, of course, but now she definitely does it on purpose... and some meals she drops nearly nothing, so I KNOW she can do it.

So frustrating! But looks like I will just have to grin and bear it

I just rode it out and DD, now 15 mo, eats tidily. I wasn't worried about it being a game ('food is fun...) and now she eats without throwing or dropping. She occasionally drops things if the cat is around, but never anything she really wants to eat. It really was a short, if messy, phase.