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Dinner is ok most of the time. Because I've given up. I've stopped making DS come to the table. I ask him if he wants to eat and he usually says no. So DH and I eat and usually by the time we're about done, DS comes out and says he wants something. He gets in his chair, eats 3 bites, and decides he's done.
Part of me feels like this is just not how dinner is supposed to be done. But the other part of me is so tired of trying to convince him to eat and the yelling "no like it. no like it. want down. want down!"
At restaurants we just buy his good behavior with screen time
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My mother things its absurd the amount of "games" we put up with at dinner time but I'm not sure how to fix it.
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@winniebee: I have a 3 month old who is very fussy in the evenings so dinners are miserable! My husband and I take shifts eating and the other one carries him.
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My kids sit in their seats, at least for a while. They are also fine eaters. And they eat as much or as little as they want of what's for dinner, so we don't have games or fights about it at dinner.
But I still wouldn't call dinner "pleasant." Both kids are normally pretty hungry by the time dinner is on the table--otherwise they wouldn't eat!--and impatient to be served. Then one child or the other needs something every couple of minutes: something cut up, or a second serving, or more milk, or a bib because the other kid has one, or water instead of milk, etc. So one of us is popping up to help them throughout the meal. Then either they are done eating after 5-10 minutes and are anxious for us to go do something else with them, or they take 45 minutes for dinner and we are impatiently waiting for them. It's not miserable, but it's not the relaxing dinners I used to have
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@pachamama: That was tough. I did a lot of eating while holding him. A lot of crumbs spilled on his little head!
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Pretty much never. It is super exhausting, especially days I solo parent.
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