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I wish I knew! I feel like LO should have better eating manners by now (16.5 month), but she is bad for throwing not only her food but her utensils and cup on the floor. We taught her to say done when she is finished but usually doesnt say it until she has thrown everything on the floor.

We've been dealing with this too and I know exactly what you mean about scolding her and then seeing in her eyes that she has no idea what you are talking about. We use signs for "more" and "all done" and if I see her playing with her food I ask her if she's all done or if she wants more. Usually that will probe her to continue eating if she does want to eat more.

Somewhere along the lines as she was holding up food ready to drop it on the floor I said to her, "A, we don't throw our food on the floor. If you are done, give it to momma". And she did. So now when she's playing with her food and I ask "are you all done or do you want more", if she's done she'll hand me the food. She likes to help clean up. It's really quite cute.

This is how most nights go and we really do try and watch her to prevent as much throwing as possible and most times we are successful. Every now and again she'll throw something but she's done well. We just try and be consistent with how we respond to what she does in hopes that it will eventually kick in.

Also, similar to @pinkcupcake, sometimes I only offer a few items at a time particularly if there was something on her plate she did not want to eat and it was throwing her off for everything else.

we also had this problem a bit earlier on (LO is now 17 months) -- we pointed to the food on the ground, made a sad face and said 'no no we don't throw food on the ground'. i can't remember exactly how we did it, but we taught him to hand us the food if he was done. if i didn't notice and take it away from him after a few minutes it would usually end up on the floor.
he's mostly reliable with handing us the food when he's full!

I wish I knew. My LO is younger (11 months) but if she decides she doesn't like something she will hand feed it to the dog! If it's a pouch, she tosses it on the floor with all her might!

I also have a 17 month old and he throws food when he's all done. I just say "we don't throw food" very sternly and ask him if he's done (which he'll usually nod yes) so I take him out of the high chair. ANd then he proceeds to eat some of the food off the floor before I have a chance to pick it up. Lovely.

@BeachMama: DH spent a weekend of taking LO up to his crib and leaving him there for a minute every time he threw food. he does it a lot less now!

@winniebee: sometimes, to get LO to eat, I leave his high chair tray on the floor and he'll happily eat it all. even if he screamed at it 5 minutes prior -.-