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I have a 14 month old dcb that has started screaming and pointing whenever he wants food. Even though he has just gotten done eating. He points at me and screams when I eat my breakfast and he has just had his. He walks by and screams and points at the food cupboard. I know it's the only way he can communicate but geez! This started mom said after their Disney cruise where they could eat freely and as much as they wanted. Now he just wants to pork out all the time. His brother is 3 and he is my dcb that shovels it in as fast as he can and looks for more. I swear he could eat for an hour straight and not get full.
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Same response as when he points and.screams at anything else he can't have. Say NO leave it
With the one that eats fast... chop his food into pencil eraser size bites and give him an infant spoon. Don't let him eat with his hands. The plate needs to be flat with no edges for him to gather the food to the side and fill the spoon high.
Give him a quarter cup of food at one time and mix his bites in with least desirable food and most desirable. He will try to pick out his favorite. That will slow him down.
Another trick is to toast a bread heel and dice it up. No butter. Spread that on his plate first. That will take a good while to pick up with a baby spoon.
Now this isn't kiddie torture. It's AWESOME for fine motor exercise but the value is to teach him to slow down. He will have to WORK at the bites. He needs to get used to the food coming in in small bites less frequently. He will also feel full because his brain will have time to register the fullness. -
That is what I do with the 14 month old, but he still continues.
Good ideas on the fast eater. He will take a chicken nugget and hold it with both hands and spin it and nibble it until it's 100% gone. He does not stop spinning it and biting. Drives me nuts!! All the other kids are not even close to being done by the tie he's done. I've caught him taking food off other kids plates too. It's like he doesn't have a shut off switch.Comment
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Ew :
: This reminds me of my least-favorite kind of eater:
Do you ever notice how some kids hold a cracker or other food in front of their mouth, and just keep biting-chewing-biting-chewing as they stuff/feed the food into their mouth? To me it looks like a rat eating
I don't have a lot of things that drive me nuts, but this does ::
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I had a girl who would eat like there was no tomorrow - she LOVED food!
I give 2nds on everything, then if a child is still hungry they're encouraged to drink their milk, after that I'll give more veggies. If they're truly hungry they'll eat the veggies.Comment
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That's exactly what he does and it drives me nuts. He acts like I say "ok, you have 30 seconds to finish your entire lunch....GO!!". ughEw :: This reminds me of my least-favorite kind of eater:
Do you ever notice how some kids hold a cracker or other food in front of their mouth, and just keep biting-chewing-biting-chewing as they stuff/feed the food into their mouth? To me it looks like a rat eating
I don't have a lot of things that drive me nuts, but this does ::Comment
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