BLW table manners - when should i start ?!!

[jasperc163]

Just been reading Aitch's post on the blw blog about the Tommee Tippee plate sucker things! Wish i'd read it 2 days ago before i wasted the fiver (same problem!).

LO is just coming up to a year old. She eats everything off her tray with her fingers. When do you worry about introducing plates etc? It seems to result in more food being flicked and dropped on the floor so i always end up giving in and tipping it all onto her tray. The Tommee Tippe thingy was meant to help but .......

Also spoons - when do you introduce them? She shows no inclination atm.

I have no problem with the mess she makes, just wonder how you go from this general carnage to instilling table manners as they get older.

thanks alot for any tips :-)
alice

hmm, i was wondering about table manners - using knife and fork properly- and dd1 is 4.5!!

i think just offer them and she'll get the idea eventually, and also by seeing you use them properly

dd2 is 21 month and still uses her fingers a lot, can use a fork, is better with a spoon - but they get there in the end

Have you seen how many people have answered that post, jasper, agreeing that their baby defeated the table thingie? Bloody Tommee Tippee are at it!

on a more cutlery-related note, DD ate some yoghurt pretty well with one of those deeper baby spoons with the really curly handle. i loaded it up for her, obviously, otherwise it would have been dairy-geddon...

i was given it second-hand but i'm going to have a look for another one in the shops. don't know what age-range they are supposed to be for, though.

and i am very interested in hearing the responses to your OP...