When does this dropping food on the floor stage end - arghhh?

[Tapster]

DD for the last week (now 9 months) keeps dropping food on the floor as soon as its put on the tray. Got a splash mat but resisting picking it up as she may see it as a game. After a while she does eat some. Luckily she is also liking food in a bowl mainly the finger food that ends up on the floor. Tell me its a phase please...

Yep, DS (15 months)rubbing cheese into the floor here...

oh god give me strength....she seems so pleased with herself when she does it

DS is 16 months, he's not just dropping he's now throwing.

After a particularly good effort of feeding himself, he then got a spoon full of yoghurt and proceeded to throw it all over the place. I was trying to get the spoon out of his hand but he was waving it around giggling - i spent ages after finding specks of yoghurt on the windows, walls, my hair and DH's shoes (i havent told him though )

Try just putting her on the floor with the food... not so much fun chucking it then!

well, after much experimenting,what worked for my dd from 10mths or so (16mths now, occasionally does it but knows she shouldn't)

*when about to throw/drop - offer firm alternative (with gestures) 'put the food in the bowl or your mouth'.
*ignore if they do it anyway
*get excited when they do either - ooh in your mouth yum yum. ooh in your bowl, POW!

putting things in bowls on tables etc, putting their cup back is a skill they have to learn IMO. How will they know to put it back if they are never told/shown?

I do think they need to play with food though - we did BLW so had a good few months of food throwing before I thought she could learn an alternative. So sounds like you should just go with it for a while

Just to cheer you up - DS1 is 9 and DS2 is 7 and they still drop food!..