I am so sick of making food and it being chucked on the floor!
At least the dogs are well fed but really that's not the point is it!
I say no and she shakes her head but then will just go on a chucking frenzy and then chuck everything!!! I think its frustration that I said no.
Also I don't want this to become a habit. I dont so much mind if DD doesnt want to eat something - We do BLS so its always her choice but when we go to others house, I hate that I have to try and catch stuff before it gets chucked over board.
So when does the throwing food and drink off the high chair stop? Any suggestions on how I can get it to stop as well would be appreciated.
Sometimes I think its when he doesnt like it, other times he has had enough, other times for attention and others cause he knows dogs will come in to clean up his mess!!!
I have found if we let dogs in when he still has stuff on tray he then chucks it to floor for his 4 legged friends!!!! grrrr
We say no over and over again in varying tones and it makes no difference so we end up taking rest of him and getting him out of chair!
He is 21 months old and still doing it if its food he has to feed himself.
Yeah, I've got no help either. I've got a chucker - his sister never did it. I've started feeding him lately. He seems to much prefer eating exactly what we have just spoonfed as opposed to the abridged finger food version and eating none. We don't have dogs so the poor sucker who cleans it up is me alone.
It gets chucked over here too. Mostly it's when he has finished and is full or when he doesn't like something. It's how I figured out he doesn't like tomato, and a few other things. Lol
He thinks it's funny some days and laughs while he's doing it. I scream on the inside those days.
Good luck. I'm not any help cause DS1 wasn't into the food throwing deal. He used to just gobble it all up. I'm hoping it passes soon though.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I have a thrower and a spitter. If she doesn't want it/like it she'll put it in her mouth, chew it then spit it out - it could be something she loved earlier in the day
I just take it all off her until she is ready to eat it properly - i figure she won't starve. She'll eat it when she is ready.
DS is a chucker too- i have found since he has learned to say "no" we waste less food- as before that i would offer him food and he would take it and if he didnt want it he would immediately throw it- but now if i offer something he can say "no" so we have eliminated the throwing there. He does still do it a bit though when he has just had enough of being in his chair and is finished eating- we are trying to learn "out please" instead of the chucking- but if he is irritated it doesnt work.
Good luck with it!
DD used to throw food when she was getting full, so any food throwing would mean the end of the meal and I would get her down. Now I give her a second plate for her to put anything she doesn't want to eat on - like sandwich crusts, orange peel etc, so instead of throwing it she puts it on the plate, works well, good luck!
I use a plastic mat under his chair that I make sure is clean, doesn't ever get walked on etc so I can 'recycle' the food Like others have said, DS usually does it when he's no longer hungry or isn't in the mood to eat. I then put some of the 'recycled' food on his little table and he eats a piece or two as he wanders past. It takes a while but he often ends up eating everything I originally gave him in the end! It's not really a designated mealtime but at least I know he's eating something!
Last edited by melsa31; April 7th, 2010 at 03:22 PM.
Ash still does it. I've tried everything. He will eat a little, throw a little, eat some more. I've tried taking it off him, telling him off, growling, smacking his hand. Nothings worked yet...
When will this stop??
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Like others have said, DS usually does it when he's no longer hungry or isn't in the mood to eat. I then put some of the 'recycled' food on his little table and he eats a piece or two as he wanders past. It takes a while but he often ends up eating everything I originally gave him in the end! It's not really a designated mealtime but at least I know he's eating something!
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