Melynda Laurent

My son who is 21 months has decided that everything is worth throwing
LOL, especially food/plates/flatware at the table. I realize this
will pass, but while I find it mildly amusing at home, DH does NOT,
and we do socialize quite a bit with my IL's who like to eat out and
then it is NOT amusing, and it can be downright dangerous when it's a
fork. How can I handle this? Obviously he is too young to
differentiate between what is OK to throw and what is not, but how can
I communicate this to him? He uses plates/ flatware and even if we
just placed the food on the table in front of him, he'd throw the
food. FWIW, we have tried ignoring it, but that does not seem to make
a difference. Any words of wisdom here?
TIA
Melynda
dd7, dd 3.5, ds 21 mo, edd 4/07

Nicole Willoughby

Is there someone you trust that he is willing to stay with while you went to dinner?

Maybe you could opt out of these dinners for a few months? This phase would probably pass by then..

Nicole

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kristenhendricks55

my dd went through this also. i know this sounds crazy but it worked
for me....

when we would go into a restairant I would ask for extra straws i
would let her rip the paper from the straws into small pieces and
throw them all over. when she would reach for another object i would
say no we dont throw that and make a "nasty" face (like i was saying
ewww) and then hand her back some more paper and make an very happy
(almost stupid looking lol) face when she threw it.

the paper cant travel very far since its so light and it kept her
busy and when we got up id just pick it all up off the floor since
it didnt leave a mess and was quick and easy to clean up.

she got to have her fun and i got to eat without all the looks from
neighboring tables.

try it :)


--- In [email protected], "Melynda Laurent"
<melyndalaurent@...> wrote:
>
> My son who is 21 months has decided that everything is worth
throwing
> LOL, especially food/plates/flatware at the table. I realize this
> will pass, but while I find it mildly amusing at home, DH does NOT,
> and we do socialize quite a bit with my IL's who like to eat out
and
> then it is NOT amusing, and it can be downright dangerous when
it's a
> fork. How can I handle this? Obviously he is too young to
> differentiate between what is OK to throw and what is not, but how
can
> I communicate this to him? He uses plates/ flatware and even if we
> just placed the food on the table in front of him, he'd throw the
> food. FWIW, we have tried ignoring it, but that does not seem to
make
> a difference. Any words of wisdom here?
> TIA
> Melynda
> dd7, dd 3.5, ds 21 mo, edd 4/07
>

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we put ice cubes on the high chair tray in restaurants. they LOVED playing
with them from the time they were really little until very recently!

Adriana




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