Soo distracted

FancyFrenchie

My LO is nearly 7 months and he is sooo distracted by everything! I know he is discovering the world right now, but it is so hard to get him to do cetain things: trying to get him to eat solids, he wants to look everywhere but at me and the food, even while BF, he'll pull off to look at other things and examine them... Any tips to hold his attention?!

AlishaMay

We went through this too.  Our ECFE teacher said that their little brains are processing so much, and they aren't able to do multiple things at a time right now, like figure out the dog and eat their solids for example. 

She recommended just letting them take a break to figure it all out, then offer their food or whatever as soon as they seem to break concentration in whatever was distracting them.  They won't go hungry, and sometimes you just have to choose your own battles, since both eating and learning are beneficial.  That phase seemed to last about a week, and now they're back on track.