Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Weaning

Find weaning advice from other Mumsnetters on our Weaning forum. Use our child development calendar for more information.

Food throwing

0 replies

zebedeethezebra · 29/03/2011 14:04

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?

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread