When will this stop??

[Arcadia]

Dd does it too. I never spoon feed so i am used to food going everywhere. As long as she eats something I don't really care...the worst part is all the effort that's gone into preparing the food. So now she just has left overs or whatever we have. The less you invest in the meal the less the pain when it paints the walls table and floor.

this too shall pass...

[Peg]

i'd go for spoon feeding as well in that case

I found my kids would prefer to play with the food rather then eat it so i stopped putting it in front of them and spoonfed instead.

much cleaner

[Sterla]

We had the same problem here too - though come to think of it, DS hasn't been quite as bad with chucking food recently. We have always just ignored him throwing the food on the ground - we didn't want to draw attention to it and make it into a game!
Like others have said, DS usually chucked food when he was getting full. Sometimes he just seems to do it when he has a lot in front of him. One thing that I noticed helps is giving him small bits of the food at a time. So, instead of giving him a full bowl/plate of say meat and vegetables, we might give him a piece of carrot, then hand him a bit of potato, etc. If he's in a chucking mood we usually resort to this.

HTH Good luck, I know how frustrating it is!

[AwesomeFoursome]

My DS stopped just after he turned 2 .

But now DD has started .

[Fuzzywuzzy]

I've found that by giving DD her food in a bowl or on a plate instead of directly onto her tray table and also giving her a spoon/fork has reduced the amount of food thrown onto the ground. Failing that, I have a plastic mat that goes under her chair which I shake outside when she's finished so I don't have to wipe the floors after every single meal

[Mad Scientist]

Dd1 stopped about 15-16 months when she started using a spoon properly. DD2 also does it even when I spoon feed her but it seems to start when she's full. She'll be perfectly fine eating and then all of a sudden everything gets flung on the floor. It is so frustrating when it's happening but it's quite normal. It does stop eventually. I think what you are doing with the discipline is right. We did that with DD1 and it eventually worked. Once she's older she'll understand a little more too and will hopefully stop when you tell her to.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

We told DS if he threw food he left the table. That's what we did. He soon learnt that food isn't for throwing. (I don't mind him getting his hands in and feeling textures etc, but food is primarily for eating, not messing with.) We did this from about 7m old, when he started throwing. He stopped throwing routinely as a game by 8m.