Does your kid always eat snack at a table? Aside from Daycare. Brought to you by DD in her playroom eating half a pop tart. (don't care...it's the unfrosted kind at least).
Nope. As long as it's not messy or sticky or impossible to clean up I don't care. My rules are LR, kitchen sometimes playroom. Sometimes I give her a snack and tell her to go so I can do something in the kithen.
She's not all that messy though TBH.
H and I have a bad habit of eating on the couch too, so it's not like I can enforce a double standard.
I'm not sure how much it counts since he's 10 months old, but snacks are on the living room floor, meals are at the table. h and I snack in he living room so he's going to do it sooner or later. I just pick things that are relatively easy to clean up, like crackers.
I can't even say that all meals are eaten at the table, so that's a negative for snacktime.
LOL. So I'm not the only one with a Saturday night pizza party at the coffee table? DD thinks it's great. I don't allow it on the regular but days when I'm just done/H is late or we're just relaxing on the weekends I'll eat dinner with her on the couch.
Post by thebreakfastclub on Jan 16, 2015 11:20:20 GMT -5
He has to eat at his Ikea table (sitting or standing), and he generally does. Also, the cup must stay on the table. I have to laugh when DS launches his cup across the room, while saying "cups on table mama." Fail
I am also working on him handing the plate/bowl off after saying all done, rather than throwing that as well, while saying "Owie makes mess."
DH and I used to eat every meal at the coffee table in the living room before DD, so this has been a change for us. We now all eat dinner as a family at the table. Snacks are usually in her high chair, but I do sometimes let her have Cheerios or something not too messy in the living room. I like to contain the mess when she is eating, but sometimes I just don't feel like going through the process of strapping her in, bib, cleaning up the tray, etc.
Food is only allowed at the table in our house for a lot of reasons: 1) the dog will steal food if you are walking around with it 2) I prefer mindful eating rather than eating while doing other stuff 3) I don't want crumbs everywhere. We occasionally get mice and ants and they don't need more incentive to come into my house. And I don't want to have to clean up more than I already do. 4). Mostly that's just my preference. It annoys me to no end when other people's kids come over and just wander all over my house with food. I hate having to be the bad guy telling them they can't do that in my home.
Post by fortmyersbride on Jan 16, 2015 11:37:20 GMT -5
Yes, food is only for the kitchen- at the table or counter top bar. I don't want crumbs or spills elsewhere in the house, or to develop an ant problem in the summer. Honestly the grandmothers are worse about following the rules than the kids
If we're in the house, usually. Sometimes we will give him a pouch or crackers and let him walk around, but we don't like having food mess in other places.
I try and contain to table. Our house has mostly white carpets so it's not conducive to him walking around with his pouch or Cheerios. I make exceptions but I would rather try and contain the mess to the kitchen.
Snacks are not always in the high chair. She has a wide Froggy bowl from Ikea that we will put dry snacks in. We set it either on the floor at grandma's familiy room, or on the ottoman table in our living room and she gravitates over to the bowl. We call her a puppy. Actually a little boy called her a puppy at the pedi waiting room when she was 2 months old, and the name just stuck for when she does stuff like this.
Table or (most often) at the learning tower. We have two dogs that would take it (and have!!) right out of her hand though. I also just think manners mean eating at a table or a place meant for eating and want to teach her that. (says the person that eats on the couch after she goes to bed!)
If not at the table, she likes to sit on the little ledge that sticks out on the side of the bottom stair. Both spots are in the kitchen. We have a pretty strict "no food on the carpet" rule for her.
Probably not teaching great manners here, but snack time is usually standing up and playing at the same time. Grab a cracker, play, grab another cracker, run around the room. All other meals are seated and at the table. We don't usually do messy snacks - Cheddar Bunnies, puffs, maybe a cheese stick, and water.
I don't enforce that. I try to get them to sit down, but I don't even make them do that if they're eating something non messy. My house would be exponentially cleaner if I did make them sit at the table.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I try not to have too many rules surrounding food. If it's a really messy item I try to get him to sit in one place or stand at the coffee table. We do a lot of grazing in our home. This morning I placed bowls of blueberries, strawberries, pirates booty, and carrots on the kitchen table. Every so often he would go grab something and walk away with it, or sit in a chair swinging his legs while nibbling.
We don't have carpeting, so a squished berry on the floor or dollop of yogurt flying off his spoon when standing at the coffee table isn't any trouble to wipe up.
Probably not teaching great manners here, but snack time is usually standing up and playing at the same time. Grab a cracker, play, grab another cracker, run around the room. All other meals are seated and at the table. We don't usually do messy snacks - Cheddar Bunnies, puffs, maybe a cheese stick, and water.
This is mostly what happens here too. Or I give her one of thos snack cups that has a lid. But meals are pretty much always at the table.
No. At home DS eats in his highchair but sometimes at my moms he will walk around while eating. We have the best luck getting him to try new things this way.
Post by dcrunnergirl52 on Jan 16, 2015 18:54:22 GMT -5
Yes, snacks are eaten at the dining room table, their kids' size table, or breakfast bar if we're home. The idea of them walking around food, tracking it everywhere, skeeves me out. But, we also have carpets, so messes are harder to clean up.
Post by mandapanda18 on Jan 16, 2015 18:57:34 GMT -5
hahahahaha nooooooooooo! I am lucky to get him to stand still while snacking (which btw is all day long). He eats meals in his high chair, that is the most I can fight for a day.