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Eating together?
Kady is 16 months now and our mealtimes are still separate! I keep trying to make them the same time but the problem is, is he takes tons of distraction to get him to eat.
If I make a meal which he can feed himself with, he will generally just play with it before tossing it on the floor. If it is 'sloppy type' food, I will feed him but have to take his mind off eating by using various distractions. This is usually the only way to get a decent meal into him!
This is why we don't end up eating together as my meal has gone stone cold by the time I get a chance to eat it.
Was ok with eating separately but was round at my friends the other day and she was saying how important she thought it was to all eat together as a family at mealtimes. Would love to do this but whilst he needs my full attention don't see how we can?
Just got me wondering how you girls do it?
If I make a meal which he can feed himself with, he will generally just play with it before tossing it on the floor. If it is 'sloppy type' food, I will feed him but have to take his mind off eating by using various distractions. This is usually the only way to get a decent meal into him!
This is why we don't end up eating together as my meal has gone stone cold by the time I get a chance to eat it.
Was ok with eating separately but was round at my friends the other day and she was saying how important she thought it was to all eat together as a family at mealtimes. Would love to do this but whilst he needs my full attention don't see how we can?
Just got me wondering how you girls do it?
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I started eating with my son when he was a baby as I found he eats better when someone else is eating at the same time.
Now I have 2 kiddies I eat with them at 5ish and Hubby eats his dinner when he gets in later and then we eat together at weekends and we sit and have breakfast together aswell if possible.
I do find sometimes that I can be up and down at the table and not be able to sit and enjoy my meal.But a lot of the time its ok and I too believe that its better to eat together and I find if I ever give Eve her dinner on her own she doesn't eat so well.
When he started on solid food I would give him loadsd of attention if he didn't eat and I was panicking about him not eating enough and I think he learned that if he didn't eat anything he would get lots of attention, so I had to stop that!
Now he sits in his highchair at the table and has his plate of food, while I'm eating mine. I don't make a fuss I just leave him to get on with it. If he's not eating anything, I'll pick something up and put it in his hand and he'll then start to eat.
I know he's had enough when he picks up his entire plate and starts emptying it onto the highchair tray.
Also, sometimes we have the tv on at teatime and when its on he doesn't really pay much attention to anything else! )