Should a3year old sit at the table to eat

mumps

AlisonHarrison wrote: »

I think you will have a ball Mumps. We did not stop laughing from 9am to 11pm. We were in there for so long.
You have such a brilliant attitude.
I am quite sad at the moment. My youngest has gone to Uni to study medicine (miss her dreadfully).
My son is working all hours as he has a new job. He is still living at home saving for a mortgage and seems like he will be stuck here forever.

Just hope we manage to do it, it will be twelve of us so alot of planning and plenty of money.

It is horrible when they go isn't it? Is her university far away? I used to try and have one or two weekends a term visiting my daughter. We went out to the cinema or shopping and just spent time together. I only have one girl so although I love her brothers she is a bit special.

daska

mumps wrote: »

Was I lucky? Perhaps my way just worked better? Perhaps my 4 were just naturally good eaters? Well no not any of them really as one of mine had a problem with eating in that they have no feeling of hunger. As an adult you can deal with this by setting the clock for meal times and eating enough but for a child it is hard.

I never had a policy on trying one new thing so some weeks they would try alot of new things (when we visited the village in North Africa and stayed with a local family) or nothing new on another week. In the end both achieve the same thing. Does it get hard thinking of something every week? Just thinking one a week for several years adds up to alot of new things but I suppose if you are very specific it would work e.g. is a grape one new thing or could you have black grapes one week and green another week? I probably didn't have a policy as I would be trying to work out the categories and forget the food.

Putting you foot down, I don't know how else to explain but I will try once more, Maman was talking about putting her foot down, I wasn't. She was also talking about what was important (and therefore she would put her foot down about) and I said I thought love was more important than the things she was putting her foot down about. I never meant and I don't think I said I put my foot down about love just that it more important than table manners or whatever Maman thought was important. I'm not really sure if you aren't understanding or trying to wind me up so I shall end it there.

Nah, I'm usually make it pretty obvious if I'm deliberately trying to wind people up, most of the time I'm just being obtuse, and I'm fascinated by the way people think because it's usually so different to my perception... it makes sense now I understand it was a disagreement about approach, I was genuinely confused... wanders off wondering where her sons got their autistic traits from... :rotfl:

one thing a week really isn't that difficult, there are thousands of things out there. TBH it's as much about making sure I keep the menu varied as encouraging DS2 to try things, and while I don't actually limit it to one thing a week I do try to pick my battles, the last thing I need is a meltdown every night. DS1 was a really good eater from very early on - I put it down to eating curry every night while I was pregnant and feeding. DS2 was about as difficult as you can possibly imagine - he really will choose to eat the dry pasta and raw carrots rather than anything else - thankfully with the language barrier being broken and having found a treatment that allows him to sleep this is now being remedied

mumps

daska wrote: »

Nah, I'm usually make it pretty obvious if I'm deliberately trying to wind people up, most of the time I'm just being obtuse, and I'm fascinated by the way people think because it's usually so different to my perception... it makes sense now I understand it was a disagreement about approach, I was genuinely confused... wanders off wondering where her sons got their autistic traits from... :rotfl:

one thing a week really isn't that difficult, there are thousands of things out there. TBH it's as much about making sure I keep the menu varied as encouraging DS2 to try things, and while I don't actually limit it to one thing a week I do try to pick my battles, the last thing I need is a meltdown every night. DS1 was a really good eater from very early on - I put it down to eating curry every night while I was pregnant and feeding. DS2 was about as difficult as you can possibly imagine - he really will choose to eat the dry pasta and raw carrots rather than anything else - thankfully with the language barrier being broken and having found a treatment that allows him to sleep this is now being remedied

One of mine was such a good eater even the dog's dinner wasn't safe.

MarilynMonroe_2

mumps wrote: »

One of mine was such a good eater even the dog's dinner wasn't safe.

LOL I had that with my daughterm quiet in the kitchen with a handful of cat munchies and a mouthful of wet cat food :eek:

Alias_Omega

WLM21 wrote: »

I think my 3y 3m Grandson should be made to sit at the table to eat AND stay there until his dinner or whatever is finished. I remember as a child having to do it, even ending up eating cold food if I messed around too much.

Our 2 year old (2 in July) will sit on a normal chair, with a car booster seat strapped to the chair and eat from a normal plate, with a normal knife and form at the table.

The days of running around at dinner time are over, usually our little one is sat at the table waiting for dinner to arrive at the table.

They can open the fridge, and get the tomato ketchup out and put it onto the table to help setup.


At first, we started off with a high chair that was the right height to fit under the table. As time went on, we removed the tray and started using plastic plates.

Eventually they decided they had enough and started to climb out so it was time to move onto a normal chair.

daska

Me too, I have tripp-trapp and sitti chairs so DS2 has never known anything but eating at the table. My parents insisted on buying a 'normal' high chair, so I took it home and bought a booster seat to use at theirs to get round that.