https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:04:02 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1869561 Fri, 19 Sep 2014 00:05:50 +0000 yin 1869561@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, both stay seated during meals. Both love to eat. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1869478 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:52:22 +0000 mrbee 1869478@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Andrea: You're living the dream! Let's trade kids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1869470 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:47:14 +0000 Andrea 1869470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, DD1 loves to eat. DD2 still strapped in! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1869413 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:17:05 +0000 Kemma 1869413@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Miss A is still using a highchair so she has no choice but she's a slow eater so as long as she's eating she's happy to stay put. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1869396 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:09:13 +0000 sandy 1869396@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She's still basically in a high chair (took the seat off so it's a booster attached to one of the regular chairs but we still use the tray part) so she stays seated the entire time. Fortunately she likes eating so she sits for at least 20 minutes and usually it's more like 40 minutes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1869323 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 20:37:42 +0000 mediagirl 1869323@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No. She has picked up a bad habit of rotating laps. @mrs. Train what age did you start the strike chart? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1869311 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 20:35:01 +0000 MapleMoose 1869311@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is strapped into the highchair so she has no choice but to stay seated. :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1869298 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 20:28:29 +0000 Boheme 1869298@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Never! Argh! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1869069 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 19:24:29 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1869069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Train: oh I like the three strikes and you're out board. We've been working really hard with her three-year-old about listening the first time.</p> <p>We also struggle with getting her to sit still at dinner time. I think part of our issue is that she's just not that hungry in the evenings. But I know she eats plenty of food during the day. I just don't understand how she can sit still at breakfast and lunch at school because I know they do </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1868818 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:53:13 +0000 sarac 1868818@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used a similar approach to Mrs Train with decent success. My daughter mostly sits, now, under the knowledge that if she leaves, dinner for her is done. Plenty of exceptions for good reasons, though, we're not crazy strict. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1868379 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:02:16 +0000 lamariniere 1868379@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. The only time DS gets up is to get a Kleenex. I don't think he has ever just gotten up from a meal? DD is stuck in her high hair. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1868119 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:35:36 +0000 808love 1868119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No but it doesn't bother me at all. I don't expect it unless we are in a restaurant. And even then, one of us will walk her outside if it is a long meal with friends. At home, I just ask if she is done eating and take away her plate if she is. Or I tell her she has to finish eating because xyz. We usually talk throughout the meal and engage her in conversation so that helps. </p> <p>Another parent brought up this issue to me a few months ago and I was quite surprised that I never thought to enforce sitting down. I got traumatized by an aunt when I was 10 for leaving a meal she cooked so maybe that's why the idea to make it mandatory to sit and eat doesn't cross my mind. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1868117 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:34:39 +0000 hilsy85 1868117@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: yes, we have the same issue! Lo is not into food, so if I took the food away whenever he got up, he'd be fine with it! I rue the day he stopped using a high chair...it's been downhill since then. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1868113 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:32:31 +0000 travelingnanny 1868113@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For me- stays seated<br /> For parents- doesn't stay seated </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1868101 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:29:09 +0000 aegie 1868101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>oh mah gah ... biggest source of stress at our household. If I put the dang ipad in front of her I can funnel in food into her mouth and she'll eat no questions asked. If I don't, then she'll eat well for the first few bites and then she asks to get down. She'll try to stand on her chair. She'll ask to sit on my lap. She runs around and I have to call her over to take a bite every few minutes. SO.FREAKING.ANNOYING. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1868072 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:20:22 +0000 mrbee 1868072@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Train: Smart!!!</p> <p>Our problem is that our kids don't really like food (at least, with any consistency). Will have to think how to adapt that technique though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1868068 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:19:31 +0000 teamjse 1868068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, but ds is stuck in a highchair. He will sit through our meals but that doesn't mean he'll participate on the eating part. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1868059 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:16:32 +0000 Mrs. Train 1868059@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: I put up a small white board and we did 3 strikes your out. If they were yelling, getting up, or really any inappropriate behavior we gave them a strike. After three strikes they were excused. I took their plates and made them leave the dinning area. Because I have one kid that has always been underweight I gave them the opportunity to return when we were done to eat if they wanted to. I didn't want to completely deny them food. I just wanted them to learn acceptable table behavior. It took a few nights of getting their plates removed and then they would usually calm down and eat. I made sure when we were starting I cooked dinners I knew they loved so they really wanted to eat. Otherwise they would probably have been happy to be excused. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1868045 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:12:03 +0000 mrbee 1868045@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Train: what worked?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1868036 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:08:41 +0000 Mrs. Train 1868036@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>mostly but it was a lot of work to get there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1868030 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:07:41 +0000 mrs. wagon 1868030@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LMW is still in her highchair so she has to stay seated... although she tries to stand up several times per meal.</p> <p>Wagon Jr. can never stay still in his chair, he's always half on / half off... the other day he FINALLY fell off his chair and cried, but he still can't stay still in it. We have a booster that we threaten him with every now and then. I keep going back and forth over whether we should get a junior chair so he'll stay better seated. But I don't want extra furniture! The high chair is bad enough. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1867980 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:50:44 +0000 looch 1867980@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, but our meal time is like 15 minutes long. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1867922 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:36:26 +0000 mrsjyw 1867922@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He wasn't recently, then we moved him to the booster setting and he's done well w it so far! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1867920 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:35:41 +0000 mrs. tictactoe 1867920@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ummm no. It's a struggle, but I don't think he's only enough to be super strict about it yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1867911 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:33:43 +0000 autumnlove 1867911@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO 1 usually gets up once to use the potty during dinner time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1867901 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:31:51 +0000 chopsuey 1867901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is strapped into his booster seat, so yes.<br /> DD sits on a tripp trapp and usually stays seated. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1867897 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:30:18 +0000 Freckles 1867897@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes. If she comes down, we usually say, "Oh, are you done already? Okay, we'll put your dish away. I guess it's time to go to bed already?" and that will get her back in her chair. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-your-kids-stay-seated-during-meal-time#post-1867890 Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:28:08 +0000 mrbee 1867890@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It is a work in progress over here. Things have gotten a lot better lately, but we're still far from where I'd like to be. Wish we could electrify the floor.</p> <p>Do your kids stay seated during meal time? </p>