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We sometimes struggle with keeping G seated at the table!! What's helped though is putting a list of reminders on the wall near his seat:
1. Don't get up from the table until you're finished eating
2. Take your plate & cup with you to the sink.

A couple times (when it was still really bad) if he got up then we'd pick up his food & he'd ultimately be done eating... The times he wasn't finished he wasn't to thrilled with the outcome & we finally started seeing some progress. Now if he gets excited about something & wants to show us right then/get up then we just ask "are you done eating" & when he says no we just remind him to not get up until he's finished.

It's not perfect but definitely better than it was!

Yep! Both of my boys are good at that. My oldest who is 4 stays seated but wiggles around here and there while eating. At home we use a booster with straps and I used to require him to put it on, but now that he's better at not getting off he can do whatever he wants. He will put it on and take it off many times during a meal. At restaurants he doesn't use a high chair anymore so it's harder to keep him from moving around. He won't leave and run off but his butt is constantly moving around and around like he has ants in his pants or something! No real tips or tricks here. Still trying to figure out how to make him eat faster sometimes!

My son sits for as long as it takes him to eat his meal, which I consider a victory at the moment.

I have found that he does better when he sits in a regular chair, no booster, no high chair.

Oh, I also wanted to mention that my son says "excuse me" and then gets up from the table, no idea where he got this from, must be daycare...but I do want to try to change the behavior to be him asking to be excused, not a statement of fact! Any ideas?

@Andrea: that's a good idea! I have no idea what their mealtime protocol is!

She's in her high chair for dinner, but during the day when it's just her and me we sit at her little table and chairs. She is not good at staying seated, but she does stay near the table and eats well. She likes to come closer to me so she can steal all of my food