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Every meal now ends with her food on the floor, one piece at a time

silver_drum_3283

My daughter turned one recently and has started dropping food off the high chair tray, one piece at a time, while watching my face. Sometimes it's when she's full, sometimes it's the first spoon of something she hasn't decided about yet. I teach maths, so I appreciate the interest in gravity. I'd appreciate it more after the floor has been mopped twice. How did you handle this stage without turning every meal into a game where she wins?

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  • plum_camera_5374

    mine did this too. at some point it just stopped. i don't really know why, we didn't do anything clever

  • pebble_wave_874

    Ours does exactly this and then leans over the side to check where it landed. We've started taking the plate away at the first deliberate throw, calmly, no fuss. Too early to say if it works, it's only been a week, and some days he seems quite happy for the meal to end 😂

  • cinnamon_marigold_6521

    We put an old sheet under the high chair and washed it every day. It saved the floor, if not our patience. From memory, the throwing faded somewhere around eighteen months, along with a lot of other phases that seemed permanent at the time.

    • silver_drum_3283

      the sheet is happening. we already have an old bedsheet that has been officially demoted

  • quiet_bookmark_4085

    Watch whether she throws at the start of the meal or at the end. My daughter threw when she was full but didn't have a way to say it. We taught her a hand sign for 'all done' and the throwing dropped quite a bit. The tradeoff is that she used the sign whenever she wanted to get down, full or not, so meals got shorter for a while.

    • silver_drum_3283

      start or end is a good question. mostly end, and the first piece of anything green. we'll try the sign, shorter meals for a while sounds acceptable

  • amber_wave_7648

    Mine's ten and still drops peas on the floor 'by accident'. Some phases never fully go 🤷

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