Learning to use a spoon

[sewinginscotland]

DS is now 13m. We weaned him at 5m as he was well and truely ready, and has been a food monster ever since. He has always had purreed food and has no interest in feeding himself, he used to hold the sides of his highchair as we fed him.

I've always given him the opportunity to use the spoon - offered him it empty, preloaded, let him play with it. Recently he's started to show interest in using it - he uses it to mash his food and sucks it. However, he holds it at the wrong end! I keep on showing him the right way to hold it and how to 'scoop' food, but he just keeps on banging the handle into the bowl.

Has anyone had this? Will he figure it out eventually? I'm just pleased he's showing interest in feeding himself, I would love to not spoon feed him.

Place marking as I'd like to know how to do this too!!

Is he still eating puréed food at 13 months? Does he have any finger foods?
Mine is 10 months and will sometimes allow me to spoon feed him but mainly feeds himself (using fingers or a spoon). We never puréed anything though. When he has yoghurt/porridge/soup etc that needs a spoon I started giving him a spoon to hold/play with while I fed him, then he started trying to grab the spoon I had so I would load it and hand it to him. Didn’t always make his mouth but 9/10 times he gets it in now!
He had roast beef, Yorkshire puddings, carrots, broccoli and cauliflower cheese today which he fed himself. We only used a spoon for the cauliflower cheese, which I pre loaded for him.

Give him one to hold and use another to feed him. Also up the finger foods offered as he should be starting to explore with his hands and that will develop the motor skills needed to use the spoon. He’ll get there though; my DD had to be spoon fed everything at 12 months (we didn’t stick the purées though, you can do lumps and textures and still spoon feed) but by 18 months she was feeding herself and completely refusing to be helped.

@Elbeagle he just gets what we have, but chopped into mouth sized chunks and has been from about 11 months old - he started to refuse purees. He gets his own spoon to play with while he eats, means we get through a billion a day!

@Expressedways We had a little phase of eating everything with his fingers, but it was very quickly back to bring spoon fed. He gets toast, sandwiches, fruit etc with his meals and he's more than capable of feeding himself but just doesn't want to 😂. The problem is he hasn't figured out which end of the spoon to use! Preloading it means he just turns it round, grabs the end with the food on and sticks the handle in his mouth...

I'll just keeping trying, but was wondering whether anyone else had the same.

Is he teething? My DS has been capable of.spoom feeding himself since we started weaning, but recently he's teething his molars and just wants to chew the wrong end of his spoon, I think as he can reach the sore spots with it.