How do you serve food? All at once or bit by bit??
We have been putting one of each type of food on her highchair tray and then when it gets eaten or thrown down we replace it.
But she's throwing heaps of lately thinking it's funny. I was thinking it might help to just give her everything all at once so she knows when that's gone, that's it!
I keep my eye on this section of BB as I'm planning on BLS when the time comes!
Here's a slightly different suggestion than the options you put forward - if it is getting to be a problem that you want to fix and other methods don't work (or she doesn't grow out of it in the next week!) I wonder if you could try the communication approach?
Let DD know that you don't want her to throw the food and then define that statement. That is, sit right next to her, give her the food, and encourage her to eat - "Eat up honey, no throwing please". BEFORE she can throw the food gently grab her hand and say "no throwing sweety". Keep repeating and repeating as required with an aim of preventing the behaviour from occuring rather than repairing it after it happens. If she does manage to throw it leave it there. You might repeat the message 30 times ?! ANd if she gets cranky still perservere or postpone dinner for half an hour then try again. I know that with BLS you wouldn't normally be sitting right on top of her but it might be worth a try for a couple of meals until you let her fully understand your expectations.
Would love to know if think this might work for you and DD. Of course I have no actual experience with these matters yet!
I gave DD her dinner/lunch/breakfast in one bowl and let her eat what she felt like. If it got chucked, she obviously didn't feel like eating it, so meal time was over! Although in our house, if it got chucked, we had two very convenient floor cleaners sitting right by the high chair, in the shape of small white dogs. DD was probably more concerned with not losing her food to them than playing with it!
Heaven it was because you said she thought it was funny to throw it that I thought it might be worth trying a 'serious' communication intervention - ie really drum in that no throwing means no throwing (prevent behaviour), not "throw and giggle while mummy crawls around on her hands and knees!"
Perhaps it would be easier to train your doggy to eat fruit and veg
haha, same here. chicken, pasta and sweet potato never get thrown. I think that by giving it all to her she will learn that once she throws it it's gone and it will become less of a game
Heaven I think it is a phase they all go through. Jett did the same thing at that age.
But also by that age we gave all his food at once and so once it was gone it was gone. I handled it by completely ignoring the behaviour - the more I reacted the more fun he had doing it. So I just ignored it, and wouldn't pick it up until mealtime was over. The other thing I did, because it was also a sign that he had had enough, I would actually use the Auslan sign for 'finished' (which is thumbs up sign wiggled from side to side) and say 'Finished' and then take everything away from his tray. This one worked so effectively that as soon as I noticed that he had had enough I would make the sign and then he would pick up his bowl or plate and hand it to me, and then proceed to pick everything else up from his tray and put it in the bowl or plate that I was still holding. How perfect is a baby that cleans up after himself????
The thing with this method is you really have to follow through with it, once you say finished if they don't immediately go back to eating, then you take everything away. No asking them over and over again, or seeing if they just want that last bit of chicken etc. When you say it, it goes. Just keep it all matter-of-fact.
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