HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR TODDLERS TO EAT SOUP??/???

[jillybabie]

MY SON LOVES SOUP BUT UNFORTUNEATLY BY THE TIME HES HALF WAY THROUGH IT, ITS FREEZING AS IT TAKES HIM SO LONG TO EAT IT!! TODDLERS DROP HALF THE CONTENTS AS THEIR CO-ORDINATION ISNT GREAT!!
DOES ANYONE HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM, OR ANY IDEAS FOR THIS!!
IT JUST ENDS UP EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANKS JILLYBABIE

My two children are 6 and nearly 4....and I give them a straw to suck it up!

a macdonald's straw ... very wide.

DS1 is 4 he eats his well, DS2 is 18 months and we have a 50/50 hit rate

Umm, I make thick soup and give him a BIG spoon to eat it with

MY SON LOVES SOUP BUT UNFORTUNEATLY BY THE TIME HES HALF WAY THROUGH IT, ITS FREEZING AS IT TAKES HIM SO LONG TO EAT IT!! TODDLERS DROP HALF THE CONTENTS AS THEIR CO-ORDINATION ISNT GREAT!!
IS IS JUST ME OR IS THIS A PAIN IN THE BUTT, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU WANT THEM TO EAT UP SOMETHING THATS GOOD FOR THEM!!

DO ANY OF YOU YUMMY MUMMIES FIND THIS A PROBLEM
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Jillybabie, do you have some sort of dysfunction that makes you sound like a magazine editor?

Read our replies and stop SCREAMING at us!

I give my toddler bread with it which he either dips in and it absorbs the soup and eats the bread or his latest skill is spooning the thick soup onto the bread and eating it like that!

DD2 picks up the bowl and drinks from it

It's an effective way of getting the soup into her but I fear it's letting her down in the table manners department, though

However, she's only 20m

SORRY IF I SOUNDED LIKE THAT SMUGCOLDITZ BUT IM NOT SURE WHAT I WAS DOING JUST JOINED THIS TONIGHT, I COPIED AND PASTED THE LAST MESSAGE AND IT WAS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FROM THE FIRST, IF THAT MAKES ANY SENSE!!
JUST FINDING MY WAY AROUND THIS SITE, THANKS FOR EVERYONES HELP!

Hi and welcome to MN - please turn off your caps lock though it looks like you are SHOUTING at us

I was given by a friend some bowls which had a cavity underneath which you could fill with hot water. Thus keeping the meal warm. Have seen them around but can't remember where so unable to post a link. Sorry

Forgot to add, I tend to give my daughter a little at a time, and keep topping her bowl up. I leave the soup on the hob in the meantime on a low heat

Definitely do the little at a time thing. Mind you, my toddler doesn't particularly object to cold soup - he's so thrilled to be eating it like a big boy (previously we dipped bread in the soup and gave him that). It's a messy procedure however they do it, but they get better with practice. I am, I would point out, the least yummy mummy I know, but at least soup is easy to clean up (though not tomato from clothes - NEVER give your under-10 tomato soup if they're wearing anything you'd like them to wear in public again).

My son is almost 3 and has only just had soup. Never thought to give it to him before but he loves it. It doesn't take him long to eat it, he doesn't make any more mess than I would expect and I wouldn't worry about it going cold, kids don't.

I just used to break up a few slices of thick granary bread into it, would bring it down to the right temp and be drip-proof (well...almost )

Tink is 21 months and she is given a slice of bread and not a full bowl at a time. She breaks her bread up herself and dips it, she also has quite good spoon control anyway. She usually manages to eat soup quite cleanly.

DD is 18 months and can eat soup fairly cleanly with a spoon - needs a bib, but doesn't lose too much - we do the same as TinkerbellesMum.