When do you think they are ready?
When do you think that a child is old enough to learn to eat a reasonable full meal, and then wait for food again until snack time?
This is my frustration: my daughter takes an hour or more to finish her breakfast. (A bowl of cereal or a slice of bread and milk, or something else reasonable that she may choose. She is allowed to pick what she would like to eat every morning, within reason.) I am sick of sitting with her for that long every morning saying , Ok take another bite honey.... but otherwise, she is hungry again in no time. She is not old enough to understand a time limit (say half an hour, or something like that.) and I don't want to make her stressed about eating, or make her wolf down her meal. I could just give her a certain amount of time, and then clear the table, and say we'll eat again at snack time, in a couple of hours, But I'm not sure if that is a reasonable expectation. I don't want her to get in the habit of snacking all day and only nibbling her meals, and I don't want her to go hungry. She often asks for food between meals, and seems hungry. (We do eat healthy snacks, generally, - yogurt, applesauce, apples, grapes, raisins, crackers, cheese, etc.) She is a big (45lb, 42 inch) girl, who just turned 3, so do you think she is old enough to learn that meal time is the time to fill up, and snack time is just for little snacks, or should I continue the "demand feeding"? :help: