15 month old baby has his food! (1 Viewer)

[Higgins86]

My son is around 15 months old and before he ate anything he would happily sit in his high chair and eat anything from green veggies, tofu to chicken and fruit. Over the last few months he has started to become more and more fussy with what he eats and has started throwing his food on the floor. One day last week he ate peas and chicken and then this week he wanted nothing to do with it, I know this is normal for a lot of kids but I just wanted to touch base with some other parents. Did this happen with you? How did you get you baby to start eating at his high chair again?

 

[liblady]

My son is around 15 months old and before he ate anything he would happily sit in his high chair and eat anything from green veggies, tofu to chicken and fruit. Over the last few months he has started to become more and more fussy with what he eats and has started throwing his food on the floor. One day last week he ate peas and chicken and then this week he wanted nothing to do with it, I know this is normal for a lot of kids but I just wanted to touch base with some other parents. Did this happen with you? How did you get you baby to start eating at his high chair again?

just continue to offer him his food, be sure to also give him something he WILL eat. as for throwing his food on the floor, he's old enough to be told NO!

 

[nonpareil]

My son is around 15 months old and before he ate anything he would happily sit in his high chair and eat anything from green veggies, tofu to chicken and fruit. Over the last few months he has started to become more and more fussy with what he eats and has started throwing his food on the floor. One day last week he ate peas and chicken and then this week he wanted nothing to do with it, I know this is normal for a lot of kids but I just wanted to touch base with some other parents. Did this happen with you? How did you get you baby to start eating at his high chair again?

From what I'm reading, children around this age becomes vary of food, some theorise that's because when we were hunter-gatherer, toddlers start exploring with their mothers around that age and have to have this awareness so as to avoid getting poisoned. You might try eating what you offer to him yourself first, and feed him small bites first to taste.

 

[Aunt Spiker]

How do you approach feeding? Does he have many of his own meal times or does he do most of his eating at your mealtime?

My children always ate what I prepared for the meal at present with a bland snack in between if they were hungry (avoiding the goodies at in-betweens is a good way to make mealtime more appealing). Encourage language to communicate wants and needs so they connect using words with giving their opinion. Around time to crawl I began to set up simple rules and stuck to them - after a short time of reiterating the rules verbally with physical action they'll get it. By 15 months and after there's less reiteration - less explanation because they grasp the language and get what you mean.

So: at your mealtime: explain why making messes isn't nice, why he should help clean up - and so forth. . . talk talk talk.

Like: "you have to eat some of your peas before you can have a sip of juice" . . . and then actually presenting the peas without the juice and not giving the juice until they follow your rule you've set. Or "a bite of sandwich before you have some fruit." and so on.

I think the worse thing to do is give kids gyro cups and magnetic bowls to prevent messes - which takes the consequence out of making a mess and instead teaches "you can throw your cup and eat it too! No big deal! How fun! Fetch Daddy!"

On that note: make the child clean it up. . . not necessarily alone - but after meal time give them a wet rag and teach them how to clean up with you. Rather than a game of 'oh how fun - Mommy and Daddy have to clean up after me and I'm just having fun!' it turns into either a 'I'm helping!' or 'I hate this - I will do it less' . . . regardles: it'll teach good values.

My sister thinks I was too strict. . . but my kids eat their dinner, now, don't make messes, follow the rules, and clean up after their food-messes.

 

[Alyssa]

From what I'm reading, children around this age becomes vary of food, some theorise that's because when we were hunter-gatherer, toddlers start exploring with their mothers around that age and have to have this awareness so as to avoid getting poisoned. You might try eating what you offer to him yourself first, and feed him small bites first to taste.

This exactly. My son wont eat anything unless we eat it first. And he always throws food on the floor. Typical kid stuff. Nothing to worry about.

 

[Goshin]

How do you approach feeding? Does he have many of his own meal times or does he do most of his eating at your mealtime?

My children always ate what I prepared for the meal at present with a bland snack in between if they were hungry (avoiding the goodies at in-betweens is a good way to make mealtime more appealing). Encourage language to communicate wants and needs so they connect using words with giving their opinion. Around time to crawl I began to set up simple rules and stuck to them - after a short time of reiterating the rules verbally with physical action they'll get it. By 15 months and after there's less reiteration - less explanation because they grasp the language and get what you mean.

So: at your mealtime: explain why making messes isn't nice, why he should help clean up - and so forth. . . talk talk talk.

Like: "you have to eat some of your peas before you can have a sip of juice" . . . and then actually presenting the peas without the juice and not giving the juice until they follow your rule you've set. Or "a bite of sandwich before you have some fruit." and so on.

I think the worse thing to do is give kids gyro cups and magnetic bowls to prevent messes - which takes the consequence out of making a mess and instead teaches "you can throw your cup and eat it too! No big deal! How fun! Fetch Daddy!"

On that note: make the child clean it up. . . not necessarily alone - but after meal time give them a wet rag and teach them how to clean up with you. Rather than a game of 'oh how fun - Mommy and Daddy have to clean up after me and I'm just having fun!' it turns into either a 'I'm helping!' or 'I hate this - I will do it less' . . . regardles: it'll teach good values.

My sister thinks I was too strict. . . but my kids eat their dinner, now, don't make messes, follow the rules, and clean up after their food-messes.

Rule One of dealing with small children: Parent always wins.

 

[Manc Skipper]

It's about control, and how much you are willing to let him take over mealtimes. If he throws food away, he waits till the next meal. He won't starve.

 

[Alyssa]

It's about control, and how much you are willing to let him take over mealtimes. If he throws food away, he waits till the next meal. He won't starve.

I take that approach with my four year old. But my son is too young to understand at 18 months.