....when a 17 month old has to have her food taken away because she was throwing it on the floor, but she wasn't allowed to leave the table. :)This picture was from lunch today. For months now we've been dealing with Karys throwing food she's tired of eating onto the floor. We've tried so many things to make it stop, but we have a stubborn child. Slapping her hand does nothing for her...doesn't phase her one bit. TAlk about frustrating!! I've told her "no" about this and explained that we don't throw food on the floor so much I think I should just record it and push "play" a million times a day!! Obviously what we've been doing hasn't been working or we wouldn't be dealing with this problem. So we decided to try something new, and hopefully this will work. The new plan is that whenever she throws food on the floor, it's going to mean she's done and her food will be taken away. Then she has to pick up whatever she threw on the floor and throw it away, and if it made the floor dirty, she is given a paper towel and has to help me wipe it up. We just started this yesterday. At breakfast this morning, we did have a "nothing on the floor" meal, but then at lunch, a piece of cracker and a piece of ham, and a cup ended up on the floor. Hopefully if we're consistant it's going to work.
Back to the picture. At lunch, I fixed her lunch and she was already eating while I was fixing my lunch. Then stuff ended up on the floor so I took her food away. (And I'm not being totally rigid with this. If she's barely eaten anything, then she does have to clean up her mess, but she gets another chance. I promise, I'm not starving her!!) However, I still hadn't eaten lunch so she had to sit in her high chair while I ate my lunch. Apparently she was getting bored with not too much to do, so she started playing with her shirt. First it was playing with the sleeves...and then she did what you see in the picture. I have to admit, it made me laugh. :)
If you're reading this and you have another suggestion, I would LOVE to hear it!! :)
2 comments:
This made me laugh out loud! Sorry you are having a hard time, though. I don't have any suggestions as I have never had this problem with any of my kids. I could be really mean and say that maybe she would stop if you made her eat it off the floor, but she isn't old enough to know that that is gross! In her mind she would be thinking "picnic on the floor!" LOL
Watch and Benjamin will be the first one to do it, though!
LOVE the pic...too funny. OK...this sounds exactly like Ava from age 1- 2 years. She insisted on throwing her food on the floor and we were fed up! We also tried everything including swats on the hand, making her pick it up, taking her food away. I'm not sure if it was anything we did or if she just outgrew it eventually....but she did stop several months back. At least I can give you the hope that it will go away!
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