The child about one year it is possible easily to teach to eat from a spoon, and, it is not necessary to apply any special efforts, it is enough to give along with input of a feeding up to the kid in hands this tableware and to show how to use it.
When it is better to begin to accustom the kid to a spoon?
If you want your kid to become independent quicker and learned to eat with a spoon, to begin to accustom the baby to use this tableware it is possible along with introduction of a feeding up. Of course, the six-month kid still with great difficulty manages the movements and cannot feed himself, but it will be very interesting to take a spoon in handles to him.
It is quite often possible to observe such picture: mom feeds the baby, that grabs a spoon hands, but the woman hasty releases tableware and says what so does not need to be done. After several similar odergivaniye the kid will lose interest in this subject, and even will remember that it is not necessary to touch it. As a result, when parents will begin to accustom the child to independence, he can refuse to feed himself. To teach to eat with a spoon of such kid it will turn out still very at a distant day. For this reason it is necessary to accustom to a spoon when to it interest appears. Giving to the baby is independently, try to minimize possible "damage" in advance. If at home warmly, it is better to undress the child if it is cool, put on clothes which are not a pity for soiling. Do not put the child over a carpet, near wall-paper, curtains, etc. – to foresee a trajectory of flight of puree or a squash quite difficult.
How to teach the child is from a spoon?
For a start the child has to have individual tableware. The spoon for the kid has to be convenient, easy and nice. It is better to buy two identical spoons at once that to give one in the handle to the baby, and to finish feeding the second. On the first year of life at most of children the good appetite, and feeling of hunger forces to try to master them very much management of tableware. Considering it, it is necessary to give a spoon to the child at the very beginning of feeding, but not when it was already sated. At first help the baby, holding and directing his hand. Development of new skill – a hard work, and the kid can be tired, without having gorged on, then you need just to finish feeding it independently. It is good if the kid independently learns to eat in the company of other family members. Looking at how adults eat, the child will begin to adopt this skill quicker. Do not swear at all when food falls on a floor or to be smeared on a table, be patient. Think that all once were small and were not able is, but it prevents to build to nobody the house now and to pilot planes. There will pass only several months, and movements of the child will become more exact and sure. Without wishing to be reconciled with dirty floors and clothes, some parents leave schooling to a spoon for later, thinking that at more advanced age the child will quicker learn to eat. However in this case the kid can get used so that he is fed that simply will not want to trouble itself.