My son will be one year on friday and I am starting to worry about him not having any interest in feeding himself. He is a twin and his sister has been picking up foods and feeding herself for about 2 months now. I have been working with him on picking up the food, and placing it in his mouth, but he still doesnt seem to get it. He wants me to feed him, and i have tried just about all his favorite foods to help him get interested. Is this normal, and if anyone else has had the same problem, what did you try to initiate self feeding??
2007-09-17 03:06:12 · 4 answers · asked by kenandcat143 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Give him a baby spoon and fork.
Give him food that has to be dipped--like french fries w/ketchup. That's fun to play with let alone eat.
In my mind, you have two options:
Stop feeding him. When he is hungry enough, he will feed himself.
Take him to a developmental psychologist and find out why he doesn't do this naturally, because it is a natural instinct and you shouldn't have to teach him about this.
It's normal for him to be way behind his sister. But my kids were eating chunks of banana, cheese, etc. by 8 months. It was hard to keep them from eating inappropriate things, let alone food.
I hope this is helpful to you.
TX Mom
Debbie
Mine are 17 & 21
(The 17 yo will still not eat anything but junk unless it is prepared for him. And I'm about to send this kid to college? lol Not gonna happen.)
(Oh, but the 21 yo is a girl, cooks, entertains, experiments with food. She loves to cook! And she doesn't eat junk.)
2007-09-17 03:40:13 · answer #1 · answered by TX Mom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Children all do things in their own time, don't fret about it.
If he isn't interested now at some time he will be, just keep giving him the opportunity and sometime he'll go for it.
Until then just make sure he is getting a healthy variety of foods to eat and go from there
2007-09-17 03:11:32 · answer #2 · answered by Jason T 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
why don't you try putting him infront of you everytime you eat. Sit him in his little chair and start eating a meal with your hands. Put it in your mouth and not his. Maybe he'll cry and get confused the first fough time, but you have to deal with it. Put his meal infront of him and leave him a fough times and see what happens.
2007-09-17 03:12:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
just give him time.. kids (even twins) develop at different rates.. it could bethat he is just lazy. my son feeds himself but gets in moods where i have to feed him. just keep trying..
2007-09-17 03:14:23 · answer #4 · answered by koda 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋