Food thrower

missyishere

I've gotten a little frustrated with my child and her habit of throwing food and her cup on the ground. I've tried not to give her attention, I've told her no, and I continue to keep the dogs out of the room .regardless of what I feed her, how much I give her, how much or little she's eaten, she throws some of it each feeding. Any suggestions?

cantalopes24

Wait for her to grow out of it lol. It's typical behavior, just tell her no and wait until she's out of the high hair and try to get her to help or at least have her stand there while you do it.

missyishere

cantalopes24:

Wait for her to grow out of it lol. It's typical behavior, just tell her no and wait until she's out of the high hair and try to get her to help or at least have her stand there while you do it.

Ooh, helping me would be a good idea. I am hoping she grows out of it soon. I get the side eye because of it.

mamaZbo

DD is the same way, She likes to throw every little piece of food that is on her tray. I have tried everything, but I think I will just have to wait it out.

Nita2603

Yes, same here. I hope he grows out of it.

Chunstad

Glad to see that I'm not alone.

Scramblersmom

DS is doing that too. We tell him "NOOOOOOOO" and give him a dirty look. We will then move his plate (or cup) out of his reach. We are still having issues with it of course but we are trying to be consistent with our response. Here's to hoping all of our LOs grow out of it soon.

EloiseWeenieSkipperdee

Amelia is finally getting a little bit better about it, but she still throws food all of the time. It's really annoying. When she does this, I make her meal time over. Know what's extra gross? As soon as I put her down, she hurries to the food she threw on the floor so she can eat it. I have no idea why she won't eat in her high chair, but she'll eat it off of the floor. Gross.

missyishere

PappsMcgee:

DD does this too [:] She does it when she's all done eating but a lot of times you don't know when that is until it's too late! She will run her hand back and forth like a pendulum which knocks her food off both sides of her highchair. It makes me so mad!
I'm going to try and have her help me pick it up..... maybe that will help :

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one here. My friend had kind of made me feel bad, like I allowed my child to be a messy child throwing food on the floor. She also finds it necessary to 'clean' her area by swiping her arms back and forth. As if she hadn't made a bug enough mess.

Stewartandmaura

EloiseWeenieSkipperdee:

Amelia is finally getting a little bit better about it, but she still throws food all of the time. It's really annoying. When she does this, I make her meal time over. Know what's extra gross? As soon as I put her down, she hurries to the food she threw on the floor so she can eat it. I have no idea why she won't eat in her high chair, but she'll eat it off of the floor. Gross.

This! E does the same thing. She'll even tell you she's done. Then you get her down and she starts eating again. 

Chunstad

Stewartandmaura:

EloiseWeenieSkipperdee:

Amelia is finally getting a little bit better about it, but she still throws food all of the time. It's really annoying. When she does this, I make her meal time over. Know what's extra gross? As soon as I put her down, she hurries to the food she threw on the floor so she can eat it. I have no idea why she won't eat in her high chair, but she'll eat it off of the floor. Gross.

This! E does the same thing. She'll even tell you she's done. Then you get her down and she starts eating again. 

Same here, it's like food on the floor makes it extra delicious.  Argh, I hate that pendulum arm sweep, along with hucking his sippy of milk super hard, milk gets everywhere.

UFCasey

missyleaferg:

PappsMcgee:

DD does this too [:] She does it when she's all done eating but a lot of times you don't know when that is until it's too late! She will run her hand back and forth like a pendulum which knocks her food off both sides of her highchair. It makes me so mad! I'm going to try and have her help me pick it up..... maybe that will help :

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one here. My friend had kind of made me feel bad, like I allowed my child to be a messy child throwing food on the floor. She also finds it necessary to 'clean' her area by swiping her arms back and forth. As if she hadn't made a bug enough mess.

This is my child also. *sigh*

Shannon526

PappsMcgee:

DD does this too She does it when she's all done eating (but a lot of times you don't know when that is until it's too late! She will run her hand back and forth like a pendulum which knocks her food off both sides of her highchair. It makes me so mad!

I'm going to try and have her help me pick it up..... maybe that will help

This is exactly what L does. She starts feeding her food to the dog when she's full. I tell her "No, that's for L, you eat it" .. but she hasn't quite grasped that concept yet haha.

Trying to have her help clean it up is like trying to wrestle that greased up naked deaf guy from Family Guy lol.

Elsa1984

PappsMcgee:

DD does this too [:] She does it when she's all done eating but a lot of times you don't know when that is until it's too late! She will run her hand back and forth like a pendulum which knocks her food off both sides of her highchair. It makes me so mad!
I'm going to try and have her help me pick it up..... maybe that will help :

This is what Gator does. She is always done eating when she does it. Drives me nuts. She doesn't care to just drop it because she is in a Space Saver highchair and its sitting on the floor. She doesn't have the fun experience of seeing it drop far and hearing it fall. So she gave up just dropping stuff. The sweeping across the tray though, we are still working on that.