Lazy about picking up food

eyenigh · March 2013

Is anyone's else's kid suddenly lazy about feeding themselves? Alexander has no problem picking things up to eat and he also has no problem eating different textures. For some reason, in the last few weeks, he's gotten very lazy about picking up his own food (except when he wants to toss it on the floor). If I put it in his mouth or spoon feed, he'll usually eat it but if I put it on the tray, he'll shove it around, maybe pick it up to look at it and smash it. It isn't that he isn't hungry, because he definitely is.

I assume this is just an annoying phase that will pass but I wanted to whine a little. Is anyone else dealing with this, too? My first tendency would be to just let him eat his tiny amounts himself and get a little hungry so he realizes that he needs to make the most out of mealtimes however, I don't want to get woken up in the middle of the night by a hungry baby either!

mcgeeva · March 2013

Probably just a phase. My son feeds himself well but sometimes we decide in the middle of eating to smash all his pees or feed to the dog by dropping them off the side. So im sure it's whatever mood they are in that day.

kristens14 · March 2013

DS is doing the same thing. He will use his sippy to smash the food even more than he could with his hands. I took his sippy away and fed him myself until he realized I meant business, and between his self-feeding and my prompting, he finished eating. Now, that's only worked once so far, so we'll see. I'm pretty sure it's just a phase, since he was eating one of his faves at the time.

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