My Baby Keeps Throwing His Food On The Floor

So parents may be better off looking for signs of kid hunger to establish the earliest mealtimes rather than making arbitrary choices about when breakfast lunch and dinner occur.

My baby keeps throwing his food on the floor. I can t let you throw it. If my son is throwing food at dinner i ll say food is for eating. The food throwing became a means of entertainment because they just had no desire to eat. Not to mention the mental drain on mom s and dad s that occurs from the constant throwing and clean up.

Applaud relatively mess free meals. In other words a hungry kid is more likely to move food to their mouths rather than to the floor. Praise your tot when she refrains from using her throwing arm and make minimum fuss when she causes a mess you don t want to reward the behavior with attention. Sometimes there was absolutely no rhyme or reason as to what food my kids would throw.

If you re throwing your food you are done with dinner my son is around 2 year olds and responds to this much language. While a baby or toddler throwing food on the floor is typical it can become a habit that s hard to break well past the age that it should ve stopped on its own. So to counteract that i started feeding my toddler aged kids an hour after our family dinner and this cut food throwing down by nearly 75. If more food ends up on the floor than in your child s mouth it may be time to call it a day.

6 tips to stop the baby or toddler throwing food. For younger kids i would use less language. The first few times your baby grabs food off her high chair tray and throws it on the floor you laugh pick it up smile and say in your gentlest voice no throwing honey you might even snap a picture because it s so adorable.