Cultery....
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Topic: Cultery....
Posted By: emmaohara
Subject: Cultery....
Date Posted: 04 September 2007 at 3:26pm
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When should your bubba start to feed themselves with a spoon and fork??
Ben is 15 mths and has been feeding himself with his fingers his lunch and dinner for a few months but I have to feed him his yogurt and weetbix as I give him a spoon and he just flicks it about and it goes nowhere near his mouth he would rather just not eat it but play with it. His friends of the same age are handling spoons heaps better apparently, should I be worried or are they just super babies?  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 04 September 2007 at 3:28pm
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i have always given the boys a spoon to play with while i fed them...and for a while there they were really good with their cutlery but now at 2 and 3 they prefer to use their fingers.
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Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 04 September 2007 at 3:58pm
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I've let Em have a spoon since she started grabbing it out of my hands. I'd feed her with one spoon and let her wave the other one around. Then I started putting stuff on her tray for her to use the spoon to eat, like yoghurt and applesauce. She got about 20% of it in her mouth and the rest in her hair Now at 18 months, she's about halfway there with using the spoon -- she knows how it works but she can't seem to get things to stay on it very well, although she can get yoghurt and applesauce on there! She started using a very small baby fork about a month ago, and is getting really good at spearing big things on that. But mostly she gives up and uses her fingers! I wouldn't be worried about other people's babies -- they are all just so different with fine motor skills like handling cutlery. And the playing with the food thing is a part of learning, too -- you have to let them do it, no matter how messy it is! Sometimes we just put Em in the tub, clothes and all, straight after dinner as she's such a mess. I'd say just give your little one cutlery and let them play. They do eventually learn. Maybe Ben could smear applesauce around his high chair tray while you feed him something else -- it's a mess, but he'll be getting experience with using his spoon. |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 04 September 2007 at 4:07pm
We set cutlery for the girls (not Kryssi yet) every night and just leave it to them. Briona does hers very well and I think she does it just cause she likes to copy. Hannah still prefers to eat with her fingers  but now that she is coming up 4, we are starting (only just in the last 3? months) to insist that she use them.-------------  |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 04 September 2007 at 5:19pm
| my boys were both using spoons really well at that age BUT we had given them spoons very early. my MIL was horrified at the mess it produced at every meal. Taine will quite often pick up something beautifuly with a spoon, then take it off with his fingers and conitune. |
Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 04 September 2007 at 7:03pm
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I gave one to McKayla at about 6 months and then feed her with another spoon. At about 11 months I just let her have it and she did make a lot of mess. Then after about 20 minutes I will feed her myself. At about 14 months she was hardly making a mess with a spoon.
She is starting to get the idea with a fork and a knive now. (sometimes tries to eat stuff with the knive) And she is actually quite good in not making a mess. But all kids will make a mess to get there. Let him make mess as often as possible. Get a plastic sheet to put under the table or his feeding chair. Makes it easier to clean up and let him have it. McKayla will often let go of the spoon to lick yogurt up with her hands out of the bowl. (too much effort to do the last bit with a spoon.) And I wont be worried about his handling. Just give him every oppurtunity to practise. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 04 September 2007 at 7:22pm
LOL Sometimes Briona has trouble getting something on the fork/spoon so she will pick it up in her fingers and put it on - the reverse!  ------------- |
lizzle wrote:Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 04 September 2007 at 8:54pm
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Jack started with a spoon around one but he still isn't the best with it. Have you tried a wee fork Jack finds it so much easier with a fork.
Jack first started feeding himself yoghurt cos he only had to dip the spoon in to get a good amount, it makes a huge mess but its good cos they can do it themselves. I would also step in after a while and help him eat the last of it so he actually got some in his tum. |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 05 September 2007 at 1:20pm
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I started giving Han a spoon and fork at about one. She is reasonably good with a fork now and has only just (like in the last few weeks) got good with the spoon. She has always been happy for me to spoon feed, but now she is doing really well with it, if its thickish like weetbix. ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |