The bonus of getting them to eat at the table, and sit at the table, and stay at the table is that when you then start venturing out for meals out, it is double the pleasure and half the perforance.......we can now go for coffees and lunch and pub dinners with Olivia and she is so enthralled by everything that she sits for AGES happily at the table, and we ALL have a lovely time........so the earlier the better I reckon!!