2 year old throws his food ... any advice?

heretolearn_2

yep I think you are handling this well.

I'd have a blooming sharp cross no! though - not a nicey nicey one.

Agree you are right to let him continue if he doesn't throw the food, and not give anything else if he does.

He's having a lovely time winding mummy up :-) so it won't take him long to click that it's only disadvantaging himself. I wouldn't make any fuss about the clean up either, no sad faces, no comments, just clean it up without comment - if you've got a joker on your hands then your sad/whatever response is part of the fun of it. It's like he can make you do a trick!

rpc

Gillyx wrote: »

Seen your signature, could this be an attention thing since his brothers arrived? Maybe spend as much quality time as you can with him one on one, just you and him. I appreciate that's probably not easy with 2 wee ones but it may help.

We see this with our 2 year old. He has 7 month old sisters. He only really starts playing up if he feels he is getting left out.

Take his food away and he soon works out that throwing it is not a sensible thing to do!

Rockporkchop

Gosh this brings it all back - all three of mine used to throw their bowls of food when they were two. Even as I was bringing the food to the table I could see them getting themselves ready to throw it. It was an awful stage and lasted a few months. I tried the suction bowls too but the only thing that worked was when I bought plastic place mats and put the food directly on to that, without a bowl or plate. When I tentatively reintroduced the plates again at few weeks later it didn't happen again.

izoomzoom

Sounds like LO loves the reaction he gets when he starts / does through the plate.

I would say when you give him his plate, that this is his food, when he is finished, plates stay on the table. Tell him that if he throws the plate, there will be no more food till the next meal time (I would drop the snacks because LOs hardly have enough time between meals and snacks to actually feel hunger).

I would keep the atmosphere light and cheery at the table and praise him at the end if he does well. However, if he does throw the plate, I would completely ignore it, finish my own meal, clean it up (with NO attention being paid to LO during this time), and then let LO down from the table, but make no mention of thrown food till it was the next meal and I was re-iterating the rules..

sassyblue

Mojisola wrote: »

I also wouldn't give him his full meal to start with. If there's only a third of his meal in the bowl and he eats it, you can give him some more. If it ends up being thrown, there's a lot less to clear up.

Exactly what l would suggest, give him his food bit by bit, only mojisola is generous, l'd give him a couple of spoonfuls at a time.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Give him food that bounces. Definitely no gravy or beans/spaghetti hoops.

I'd also find something far more interesting to do than fuss over him when he does it.

threemuttleys

My little boy did this for a wee while (also went through a phase of lobbing beans at his dad :rotfl:)

Suddenly stopped

choccybuttons

Hi

If mine throw, food gets taken away and he has to sit while everyone else eats, then he gets spoon fed. With eldest also resorted to using no plate at all. I generally told him no and then he had to sit and watch rest if ffamily eat and then still sit while I cleaned up. He liked getting down from his chair so making him sit was something he didn't like.

pinkshoes

My 2 year old did this twice ever. I just said "oh, ok, you're not hungry. Next time, don't throw the bowl, just leave it in front of you". I then got him down from the table and meal over, no pudding. He was NOT impressed. I ignored him whilst I ate mine.

He tried it again a few days later and I did the same, and he never did it again.

CRANKY40

I remember my cousin doing this as a baby and we're both in our forties now. The only advice I can come up with is to ignore it (worked when mine was head banging). Give him food that can be cleared up easily like toast for breakfast rather than weetabix and sausages and potato wedges for dinner rather than anything in a sauce, and if he throws it, pick it up quickly and say nothing else. He knows the rules and consequences now, so time to change them in your favour.