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EAT => Eating For Toddlers => Topic started by: anna* on February 06, 2014, 10:06:22 am
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I guess there's not much we can do but ride this out? Audrey starts out her meals on her chair but after just a couple of minutes she pushes her plate purposefully towards DH or me, and says "Sit daddy's lap" or "Sit mummy's lap". After that there is no getting her back in her chair, she won't eat anything else unless she is sitting on a lap. Sweet that she likes being so close to us but it does make it trickier to eat our own meals, plus this is totally a habit now and just won't sit on her chair for a meal.
Her chair is a high chair, but the front bar piece (which should restrain a kid) is taken off because she was climbing in and out of it and it was way more dangerous than removing the bar and having an 'open' chair that she can get into and out of with ease. So there's no physical barrier to her getting up and down from the table (and therefore to coming round to my seat and crying and begging to sit on my lap).
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When DS had this phase, I found out that his high chair needed adjusting. Can yours adjust? He still goes through phases that he just gets restless and I will adjust his chair and he would sit happily again. Just a thought worth checking. Give her a big person chair to try perhaps.
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She's the same on a big chair (although I don't like her going on them because they are folding chairs). Yes it's adjustable but I can't see that she needs to be lower or higher? She's pretty much at the same level if she's on a lap as she is in a chair?
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What would happen if just she and Stan were eating, for a couple of meals? Might that break the habit?
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Naw she's the same. "You sit down mummy me sit your lap." She doesn't do it when she's at my mums.
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Maybe she would like a soft cushion?? or butt warmer :P
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Could you tell her she can sit on your or DH's lap but she has to wait for you to have finished eating first?
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That's what we do. Colby always asks to sit on me but I insist he waits until I have finished eating. I say "mummy's eating right now so eat what you can and then you can sit with me when I have finished." He doesn't normally eat much if anything while waiting but at least I get to eat in peace.
Sometimes he eats better if I load the fork for him and tell him I am going to eat that bit but I am just waiting for it to cool down. Then I look away and he eats it and laughs. I pretend to be all surprised and ask him to watch it for me and make sure no one eats it and repeat etc. that is disruptive but at least it is less awkward.
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M also does it every single mealtime regardless of whether we are all eating together or not. If i am not eating I tend to go with it and if I am am I say same as pp's, she has to wait until I am finished...which she does with a running commentary of 'I sit on mummy's lap when she finished dinner' over and over and over.
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OK I'm going to try delaying her then. Wait until mummy's finished. We'll see how it goes! Glad she's not the only one.
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Must be an age thing....we get it here too!
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Ditto
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LO2 is doing the same thing...
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H never ever did it...
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I don't remember Stan doing it either?
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L hasn't done it but maybe H will..
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Never happened here.
On the height of the adjustable chair thing - have you checked her knees are not banging the table following a GS, or if there is a foot rest that it needs to be lower for same reason?
DS always looked like he was sat at the right height to the table for eating but his chair has needed to be altered 2 or 3 times because what's under the table (where we don't look) is cramped legs. Much more comfortable once it's adjusted. But you may have already checked this.
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LO2 is in our Ikea Antilop still. She stands up in that and asks to get down, then says 'knee, knee' and eats our dinner, and her own. At least she's eating well, right?! :P I had a hunch it was to do with the chair and swopped her into the (imitation) Tripp Trapp chair, with the bar put back on for her. She didn't budge. I think she couldn't, but then she didn't ask to get down either. So it might well be a hardware problem. ???