LO is almost 17 months and we are working on trying to get her to eat out of a plate/bowl and at least trying to use a spoon or fork. Most of the time she throws her utensil on the floor and shovels it with her hand. And when shes really in a mood she likes to try and spill the plate/bowl on her tray or floor. I feel like she should be grasping this by now?
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My lo is 17 months too and every once in a while she will use a plate and fork but most of the time it just makes a bigger mess as she loves to dump it out on the tray or floor too and she typically gives up on the fork after a while and just uses her fingers. Don't worry, practice makes perfect, eventually she will get it
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We've been using plates and utensils pretty consistently for a few months now at 14 months old. He can self feed with a spoon for oatmeal and yogurt. Still working on the fork with him. I bought more divided plates and bowls to encourage it. I offer snacks in bowls too.
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@cyndistar3: I hope so! LO is just so rough with everything so to be patient enough to use a fork is just torture for her!
@cascademom: Wow, you LO is doing awesome! We do the snack thing in a bowl and she manages quite well it is just the fine motor skills that are frustrating her!
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@Lindsay05: I just keep offering the plate and bowls, partly because I'm lazy. I'd rather have him eat off a plate in his high chair that can be washed in the dishwasher than clean the high chair tray. My goal is to civilize him early with both.
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When did you start? We started a plate and utensils pretty early on. Maybe 10 months? I feel like around 15/16 month is when I got serious about the fork and spoon. She caught on pretty quickly and now uses one pretty much at all meals.
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We started early. When DS was 9 or 10 months old, I would give him a spoon, sometimes two, to hold while I fed him. He started actually using the spoon and plate around 14 months, granted, it was very very messy, but he was trying.
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I started early with DS, too...around 10 months. It just takes practice.
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Cant remember with my DS but my DD started DCP at 15 months and around 16 months I figured I better start giving her a fork. So I did and she picked it up and pierced her food and ate it! I was sooo proud of her. The next day I told her teacher and she laughed and said "we have been giving her a spoon and fork with lunch everyday since she started" haha oops!
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We use a plate and offer utensils at meal times and have been doing this for a couple of months (DS is 15mos). He doesn't really get the utensil part but he does keep his food in the plate/bowl and that's all I really care about right now
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I started consistently giving him utensils around 14 months and by 15/16 months he was pretty good at it. He's almost 18 months and sometimes shoveling the food with his hands is faster and better :). I'd say until around 17 months he treated the plate or bowl like a frisbee. I kept trying and now he keeps them on his tray until the end of the meal, and only then do they go overboard.
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@cascademom: Haha! My 14 month old loves to dump everything out of containers and flip her plates over!
Her motor skills are great, but lately she just really seems to enjoy watching things come out of containers. *sigh* I ordered a second splat mat and am just gonna ride it out!ETA: Oh, and her sippy is her favorite projectile!
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She started getting utensils around 14 months and at 17 months uses both a fork and spoon very well, and at every meal.
They use forks/spoons at daycare too, so she gets practice multiple times a day, as well as the "peer pressure" of doing what the cool older toddlers are doing!
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I always served my son on a plate, he never got food straight on his tray because I would have to transport it from the kitchen and putting on a plate or in a dish was easier!
We started utensils very early, like as soon as he could hold them, he was self feeding from a spoon by 12 months.
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@MsLipGloss: When he attempts to dump it out in a tantrum or whatever, I take it away, then give it back when he calms down. Even before I started instituting plates and utensils, he loves to drop food down and go "uh oh."
Her motor skills are great, but lately she just really seems to enjoy watching things come out of containers. *sigh* I ordered a second splat mat and am just gonna ride it out!
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