what can i do to get my daughter to sit down and eat?

Answer 1

I dont think you really can

Answer 2

Are we talking about dinner time? Do not give her snacks before dinner. Let her be really hungry, so she has to eat. Make sure there are no toys around and she can not hear a TV or a radio. Tell her she has X amount of time to finish or she will lose time in front of the TV. This works for my son.. He is one of those who takes 2 bites then gets up looks at the window, takes a stroll around the house then sits and take 2 more bites and do it over again. The No toys, no TV on policy has work for him... Good Luck, they get bore too quickly.. That means she is really smart, she needs more stimulation than the usual...

Answer 3

How old is she?

Set realistic expectations. A toddler isn't going to sit down as long as an adult would for a meal. Put just a few bites on her high chair tray at at ime. Interact with her and encourage her....praise her. Give her a plastic bowl and spoon she can try to use.

If she's a little older, try putting her in a booster seat at the table so she'll truely feel like "part of the family" and everything that is going on at the table.

Answer 4

How old is your daughter? From the time our kids could sit in a highchair, they were always at the table for family meals, whether they ate or not. It's family time, visiting time. Just the way things are. Depending on their age, they are allowed to leave the table to do whatever they like, when mum and dad have finished dinner (always done faster than the pea scoochers and meat pickers).

Answer 5

I taught 2 1/2 year olds to sit at the table by talking about how it hurts the feelings of others when you get up and run around. I said that it would be better if everyone sat at the same time, ate at the same time and if you needed to get up for any reason you should always say "May I be excused please" And that a yes would only happen for bathroom usage. It worked for me.

Answer 6

I had a simple solution with my children. I simply told them, "Eat now, play later IF you finish your plate, and no snacks later." I didn't make them finish their plate if they were too full to do so. You know your child by the time thy can feed themselves and you know when they are really full or faking it. Stick with the "No Snacks later." that only proves they pulled a good one over on you. So just tell them you gave them fair warning about the snack time. When this happened with my children, I usually gave them one cooking and a glass of milk right before they brushed their teeth at bed time. It may not have been enough to take the hungries away, but it curbed the appetite until morning breakfast.

Answer 7

Good luck with that! My siblings have the same problems with their children. Tell her she can't have dessert later or she can't watch tv until she sits down and eats. It's works for my siblings most of the time. Or tell her that if she doesn't eat now, she can't have any snacks later and she'll have to wait for the next meal.

Answer 8

Doesn't sound like she is very hungry. No need to force her to eat...just skip that snack and by the next meal she will be glad to sit down and eat.

Answer 9

I try to get my daughter to eat with her father and I. I think that sometimes that helps. I know how hard it can be my daughter is 3 and sometimes she is just too busy to eat.

Answer 10

Serve her favourite foods, or tell her that you'll play a game with her after if she sits down for the whole meal.

Answer 11

tell her she will get a special treat if she sits through the meal without getting up. make it something like an extra trip to the park or something like that...