Mealtimes
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Topic: Mealtimes
Posted By: FionaO
Subject: Mealtimes
Date Posted: 21 February 2011 at 5:53pm
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I'm just wondering what you expect of your toddler at meal times. We try a mix of eating together and him eating by himself, someone always sits with him though. Recently his ability to sit still for more than a few minutes, seems to be getting worse he manages about 5 or 6 minutes before charging off we get him to say all done and wipe his hands he does seem to have finished and doesn't often come back asking for more later, what he eats can vary from virtually nothing to quite a lot, more often than not, not a huge amount but he doesn't snack heaps so that doesn't worry me. Guess i'm just curious what others do and what should I expect of him, is 5 minutes ages really.
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 21 February 2011 at 7:55pm
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We have all our meals together, all sitting at the table. I guess having done that for ages makes it easy to expect of the young ones. Kaela's a pretty good eater at breakfast and dinner though so often will stay eating as long as well do, just slower. She's quite social so leaving the table would be unthought of for her. -------------  |
Posted By: Shelt
Date Posted: 21 February 2011 at 9:24pm
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I have my meals with Gabrielle when we are both home. I expect her to sit at the table till we are both finished, even if she doesn't want to eat anything. If she says she doesn't want whatever is on offer I just tell her she won't be getting anything else and leave her be. She is good with breakfast and normally lunch and usually doesn't eat much (if any) dinner. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: KiwiL
Date Posted: 21 February 2011 at 10:20pm
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Jackson still sits in a high chair, well it's kind of a booster seat really, but he's strapped in. He's happy for absolutely ages in there... often 30 - 40 minutes. Drives me nuts as I wish he'd just hurry up, but he's in no rush.
We do our best to have meals together. Sometimes he'll say he's finished, but we all sit at the table together and be social till we're all finished (this is dinner time). More often than not, he's happily the slowest though. And then we have to wait. 
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Posted By: jano1
Date Posted: 22 February 2011 at 11:22am
We eat together for breakfast and lunch but for some reason if we sit with DD at dinnertime she plays up and won't eat so it's better if we leave the room 
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Posted By: _SMS_
Date Posted: 22 February 2011 at 12:40pm
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Im dealing with these problems too.
Its not always easy to eat together with DP at work. And if i leave the meal after 530pm DD wont eat because she is so tired. We normally sit DD at her table for meals which i think is the problem, im going to start using the big table and see if that works better. Ive also stopped snacks after 330pm so DD is hungry and then hopefully eats. Lately she isnt interested in any food but veges. So a bowl of veges for dinner it is
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Posted By: FionaO
Date Posted: 22 February 2011 at 6:42pm
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gah today typical example, hungry mum, do you want dinner now, oh ok, so we both sat down with something I know he likes. He happily tucked in ate for about 5 mins, then starts to wiggle, I try to distract saying anything or just starting conversation but end up saying please sit still, then he says all done, so I confirm and say if you are finished you can go so he does........then an hour later, he looks for it again, I don't want to make this a habbit but equally not sure how to stop it. he sits and eats a really good breakfast with me and lunch is a bit ho hum, sometimes he's bothered sometimes not. I guess I could try to say wait until i'm finished see how that goes. -------------
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Posted By: crafty1
Date Posted: 28 February 2011 at 2:21pm
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My toddler will sometimes sit for ages and other times wants to get down immediately. I set a minimum if he hasn't eaten much, so will say to him 'well you have to eat this, this and this' and then he has to wait for us to finish and then he can hop down. If he hasn't eaten much i'll cover his plate and leave it there and he can go back to it later but still has to eat what i've set, waited for us and asked to hop down.
We all eat together and no-one gets down till we are all finished. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: JessDub
Date Posted: 28 February 2011 at 3:30pm
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Sounds familiar! DS eats earlier than us and eats at the table in his Mocka chair, which he can't get out of. I usually sit with him, to remind him about his food but he doesn't last long and he doesn't eat everything.
So I serve him less at tea time now - knowing that he won't give it a good go - and he'll have a sandwich or fruit for supper before bed. I'd love it if he could sit nicely and eat everything but he can't/won't and that's a battle I've chosen to work around. I've also noticed that DS will eat more at a non-table setting, i.e. on the couch, but I don't want to compromise on the table, our couch is already a mess! ------------- 
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