LO is 13.5 months and cannot quite figure out how to use a spoon yet. Should she be able to by this point? She can scoop the food up from the bowl, but then drops the spoon...or if we give her a loaded spoon she puts it in her mouth, takes the food off but then puts the wrong end of the spoon back into the bowl!
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My LO did the same thing at 13 months, it takes a lot of coordination to self feed! She's still shaky and makes a huge mess at 16 months but is more successful now (starting about 15 months she could do it successfully)
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I want to say around 15 months!
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@fairy: @Adira: thank you! I thought I had heard it was more like 12-13 months and LO was behind.
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@illumina: I don't even think I tried giving Xander a spoon that early! I might not have even given him a spoon until 15 months, so maybe it was a few more months before he mastered it. I can't remember. He's a pro now at 20 months though and hit-or-miss with a fork (which I started giving him at 18 months).
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She started playing with one earlier but didn't really get it until 16-17ish months.
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She can do pre-loaded spoons and forks now and has been able to do it for a while, but she can't do the scooping part herself. She's 15 months. At her daycare, they don't even really LET them self-feed until 18 months, when they move to the toddler room. And even then, it's mostly finger foods instead of stuff you'd use for a spoon.
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He is almost 17 months, and has been self feeding for a few months now, but only became successful with a spoon and fork in the last month. He doesn't really get the "scooping" technique with his spoon. He touches his spoon to the food, and licks it off the bottom
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@autumnlove: @Anagram: @Boheme: good to know! I was at my parent's yesterday and they asked if she would be okay using a fork yet and I really had no clue, but it caused me to question it,
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Probably around 18-19 months we started working on a spoon with liquids (couldn't deal with the mess potential before then!) and around 22-23 months he was quite good at it, to the point where I could give him a bowl of something and not hover.
ETA - we did forks well before, I think poking things was easier than scooping.
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In my experience, the more you let them practice the quicker they learn. It also depends on their fine motor skills of course. With LO1 I had a lot of time and patience for meals, so he could do it around his first birthday. With my second we practiced way less cuz I was busy with two of them at meal times so I think it was closer to 15 months? Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it.
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He wasn't really able to do it well until about 17/18 months. He was using a fork at 12 or 13 months but he always tipped the spoon upside down.
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Eek. I barely let him do it by himself at 21 months. He's fine with a loaded spoon or a little guiding and is good with a fork.
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LO is 12 months and using a spoon...good enough to get some food but not super efficiently. She can manage to hold the correct end and put the right end in her mouth, and get a few scoops of food like hummus or yogurt but not pieces of fruit or similar foods. She often gives up the spoon after a few scoops and opts to use her hands instead.
ETA: I feed her from my fork if she wants a bite of what I'm eating but I don't think she's ready to wield a fork on her own yet. I keep letting her eat off mine so she gets used to it though.
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About 14 months.
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DS is finally getting the hang of it at 20 months, and able to actually scoop and put the spoon with the food still in it into his mouth!
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At 12 months, she can pretty much do it but there is a lot of flinging involved too!
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Hmm, 15 months here and she *can* eat off a pre-loaded fork/spoon but struggles to get the food onto the utensil. I say *can* because she is a little monster at the dinner table and prefers to throw her cutlery/food/plate/drink rather than consume anything....!!
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@Cherrybee: ugh, mealtimes battles are my weak point...I cannot stand them. So hard to keep my patience!
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@illumina: I'm pretty chill about it these days - I serve up the food and if it gets thrown all over the floor I let the dogs in to eat it and move on! It's a bit easier for me to cope with though because she is at Nanny & Grandad's house for all her meals Mon-Weds (she eats a fair bit there) and at nursery Thurs/Fri, where she eats like a horse. So what if she eats only quavers for two days a week - she's not going to get scurvy. *shrug*
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@Mrs Green Grass: same here. Too messy and he gets distracted. Shame on me !
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My LO is also 13.5 months and can eat with a spoon as long as the food will stick to it (yogurt, mashed potatoes, thick pureed soups). It's super messy so I don't let him do it too often, but sometimes he insists. He likes to eat off loaded forks but he can't spear or scoop food with them.
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@Cherrybee: Yeah, I just try and move on too. So hard though. Lately she is worse with me...no throwing but literally refusing to touch food. But only for me...DH is fine! Grr!
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