Throwing Food

[alicia]

Does anyone have any ideas for dealing with food constantly being thrown on the floor? DD is a good eater (not really fussy and eats a good variety of stuff) but she is loving throwing food on the floor and it is making me crazy! We have tried being strict about, tried ignoring it, tried taking the food away... not sure what else to try. Hopefully it is just a phase but I was kind of hoping that someone out there in BB land would have a secret solution

[kristy J]

LOL

if you work it out can you let me know.

we have to almost sweep and mop after every meal.

[alicia]

It's totally crazy! Why oh why can't she just leave stuff she doesn't want on the highchair table?????

[kawazuki]

+1 if you figure it out let me know

DD ahs cut back on how much she throws, and i think its because we have involved ehr in teh clean up so we haev a second bowl and what she doesnt want she puts in teh "rubbish" bowl and then she takes it to the bin..

so now only about 30% makes it to the floor

[Mother Goose]

My DD is really into rules so we have a rewards chart with her "rules" on it. One of the rules is to "eat meals nicely". If at the end of the meal she has achieved this, we make a big deal out it and she gets a sticker on her reward chart. She REALLY loves her reward chart - she helped make it.

The only other thing we did was to ignore her when she did it and make her pick it up at the end of the meal.

HTH

[Lulu]

get a dog or two - the food never hits the floor...

[LimeSlice]

We are trying something similar to Kellz...
Well, trying!
Charlotte loves to clean - wiping tables and her high chair and carries a baby wipe around with her half the day.
She loves to wipe up her own table and tends t throw the food on the floor if she has finished her dinner and wants to 'clear the table' iykwim. she likes to clear the coffee table too and the book shelf lol
So I think so far we have thought along the lines of she is trying to be clean, not make a mess. Very rarely she will throw things on the floor to get some attention. If we take her food away just as you see the signs she is going to throw it, and give her a baby wipe, she is content to sit for another 10 minutes trying to clean the table ... A bit like watching for sleep signs, we watch for throwing signs at diner time!

Hope that helps a little anyway...Let me know if you come up with something else too!!

[kawazuki]

tay is the same, yep always wiping something or cleaning something or picking up rubbish and taking it to the bin lol

she dont get it from me lol must get it from my hubby he is always cleaning aswell

[alicia]

Thnks girls

I used to always give the kids at school a babywipe at the end of the day and they went crazy wiping their tables, maybe I should try that with DD... Actually yesterday she picked up some onion skin from the floor and took it to the bin, so maybe she is old enough now to start learning to clean up a bit herself. The only thing is she will probably love it and therefore throw more stuff on the floor so that she can take it to the bin I'll give it a go tomorrow and let you know how we do.

[christy]

get a dog or two - the food never hits the floor...

EXACTLY what I was going to say!!

[LimeSlice]

Alicia - that is what I was getting at. It seems that she is so impressed with cleaning and putting things away that she will throw everything on the floor....then pick it up again....then throw it on the floor!

So now all I have to do is figure out how to get her to understand that making a mess just so you can clean it up isnt that fun! lol

[KatieRabbit]

When DD throws food on the floor I know she is full and she doesn't get anymore. Alicia our girls are the same age and mine doesn't get the bin thing or wiping up thing (yet...) If I gave her all her food at once it would all end on the floor so I give her two pieces of whatever at a time. Often if something is thrown I will give her another bit in case it dropped and she did want it but once that second one is on the floor, the meal is over. Funnily enough I get her out of the high chair and (when I think she hasn't had enough) she will wander around doing her stuff still nibbling at pieces that I strategically place around the room! But gee it makes me cross sometime her throwing food. I also wait until she is hungry so that she eats it all up.