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    Posted: 07 March 2008 at 9:44pm
Elle used to love reading books...we could spend ages reading.

Now she just doesn't stay still AT ALL. She isn't interested in reading ATM and doesn't even stay still to eat. Playgroups etc have a rule that kids have to sit down to eat and I can't get her to do it to save myself! I end up having to take the food off her (otherwise the leaders would) and put up with the screaming fit. It often appears to me that she is the only one who won't sit and eat. Have I just been slack in not teaching her sooner (I previously let her walk around with snacks).

If I try to give her food in her chair she squirms and cries and throws a wobbly so now she eats at her little table but squirms, gets up and down and generally just stays in constant motion. Up,down, up, down....

I do realise that toddlers don't spend much time sitting still but are other 18mth olds like this? Is it just a phase? We miss reading...and sitting still for meals!! LOL.

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I use to look after my nephew when I still lived in England and he was like that, use to drive me mental, with all the up down up down, eat a bit, run off, play, come back, talk to me etc etc would take him an hour to eat a tiny lunch. He got better though and by about 2.5years he would sit nicely and eat with me.

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We called Ella the seagull because she used to be exactly like that. She'd swoop in every now and then to have a bit to eat and then take off again to play.
I think it was a combination of poor training on my part and her personality. She was (and still is to a degree) a very picky slow eater so I'd just let her do whatever she liked so long as she was eating! Plus she was always so busy and nosy she hated to sit still in her highchair for any length of time. She felt she was missing out on things.
Once Benjy came along so did a better mealtime routine. We now generally all sit down and eat together at dinnertime and its become habit for her to do this with her other meals and snacks too, yay!
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Miss M is pretty similar...she seems to be in constant motion!!

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I think it's the age - we had that too - and it seemed like she was the only one who did it too lol

I think a combination of attending daycare for a few hours from 2+ years really helped (all the kids had to sit still at meal times, and I wasn't there), and just getting older really.

If we're outside, she's allowed to eat while walking around - I'd go hoarse otherwise trying to get her to sit still

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Briona is a squirmer, in between eating while she stays at the table her legs are up, down, sideways, whoops kicked Hannah in the head by accident etc.

But for Elle's own good now would be a good time to put some boundaries in place at home. Give her one warning per meal, but expect to her remain at the table until she has had enough to eat. The second she's down from the table, her food goes on the bench. It will be good discipline for her. If you have 5 meals a day she'll learn quickly, and she won't starve in between
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Ella's constantly on the go, too.  I feed her at her little table in her own chair, and the rule is she's not allowed to get out of the chair and still eat - she gets told off for it a couple of times, then locked into her highchair for the rest of the meal, or if it's a snack, the food goes away and we try again later. 

...I wish I could say is was 'working' as such, but we've been keeping to this rule for some time now, and she's still determined to wriggle off that chair constantly. 

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LOL well we haven't managed to get dinner in for a week now..whether in the high chair or at the kiddie table. She just won't eat anything.
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Sitting still? What's that? The gremlins don't know those words! They are up and down from their dinner table like blimmin yoyos, and constantly cruising around the house. Meh, drives me mad!
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With dinner we still use the high chair, the same with breakfast as the usual is cereal - she sits at her table and chairs if there is toast instead, and for lunch or snacks. She is very active too though, and I don't worry too much about her getting up from the table when she is at home - at the moment I have just decided to pick my battles and this one is not always worth it.
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Sitting still, never heard of it LOL the only time T is still is when he is asleep :)
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LOL the gremlins don't even do that, they wriggle and squirm all over in their sleep!
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Lol Emma, so does Isla!

Yep Isla definatly doesnt sit still and eat either. She will eat breakfas in her highchair, but she is in there for all of about 3 mins max to down some weetbix,..then she walks about and I can shove a few bits of banana in while shes playing if Im lucky. Snacks and lunch are always on the go,..and are pretty much an on-going pick all afternoon. She will sit still to eat about 1/2 her dinner, then we play with her, and manage to get her to eat more like that!
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We don't have highchairs anymore, the gremlins could climb out of them so they were too dangerous
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Gina will sit still for eating but that's about it - she's on the go ALL the time too. I've given up on the reading for moment too
    
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I'll put it this way. The only time in months I've managed to get seb to sit still for 5 minutes, was when we bought him his first (50c baby sized) ice cream the other day at the park. He was completely engrossed, and sat there for a whole 10-15 minutes eating it... then ran off and tried to mob other little kids and steal there's.

But normally he's HOPELESS I would probably just not go to that playgroup, so I'm a fat lot of use. Maybe take something yourself (if it's a kinda donate and share lunch that is) that she really likes - Seb will eat bananas and his little mother earth honey/apricot mueli bars anywhere, and will sit still long enough to finish half and shove the rest in his mouth

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