BLW - throwing food on the floor rather than eating it - do I 'DO' anything about it??

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DD is 8 months old and has gone from eating quite a lot of finger foods to taking one bite of each item and then throwing the rest on the floor. I don't react at all but just put another piece of something in front of her. If I put it all out at once, it all just gets swept away. I tend to offer her 2-3 different items at a time and then replace them as they get lobbed. Is this just a phase or should I be handling it a different way? She's not actually eating that much as a result I don't think but isn't stocking up on milk either - perfectly content and well generally.

Don't react to it. It is all part of her development.

i did what you're doiing, 2-3 items, then picked them up and put them back a couple of times (the five-second rule having stretched to thirty seconds) then replaced. i think it's a common phase, they're learning about gravity.

Ignore the food flinging and invest in a good hoover.

oh yeah, i should say that i didn't let her see me pick them up iykwim?

Yes - buy one of those plastic sheets which protect the floor!!

Thank you! I clear up right at the end after I've removed her from the 'scene' and I keep my face blank unless she's actually eating, in which case she gets lots of smiles etc whilst I try not to go over the top! A marksman would be proud of the way that she can target a single spot on the floor....

Tink thinks it's fun to threaten to throw! We put our hand under hers and say "Ta".

There is two different types of throw, firstly they are testing gravity and their eye sight, if your child doesn't do this or doesn't watch it hit the floor you need to tell someone as it could be to do with their eye sight. Secondly it's for the fun of Mummy's reaction!

If it is the first, then best to ignore it, they will get it out of their system. If it's the second, you need to decide as only you can what you want to do about it. Tink is more likely to throw if we ignore her, so we play along.

okay, i did agree but its not working for us!. mine has been doing this for months now! he's nearly 11months and i think he throws stuff in order to get something else he thinks looks tastier! so do i just carry on putting things on his tray? or am i teaching him that chucking them on the floor is an acceptable signal meaning "give me something else?"

DD chucks stuff. Sometimes it's to clear her hand to pick up something else, or to clear her tray. I only ever give her one or two things at a time or she goes mad and brushes them all away.

In the past week she's started handing me things back if she doesn't want them, and she's had a go with having a bowl with a few things in. Finally she's been able to choose something off a plate offered to her, rather than grabbing the plate and throwing it away.

She's 1 next week. We get progress, little by little.

It's a nightmare!!!!

My DS is 17mths he went through a phase of this. Friends v impressed when we went on holiday as I just ignored it totally.

He doesn't do it any more, if he doesn't want something, he passes it to me, usually half chewed, think he started doing this a few months ago, can't remember exactly when.