The child has first attempts independently are shown to 6 months when the kid is able to hold strong objects in hand – whether it be a toy or cookies. Closer by a year there is interest in tableware and also desire is without the aid of adults. During this period it is very important not to miss the moment of this interest and to try to carry away the child even more. Completely independently there is a child can in 1.5-2 years, do it accurately – closer by 3 years, and to seize management skill a fork and a knife – in 4 years.
It is required to you
- - Soup unbreakable plate
- - children's spoon
- - children's apron or apron
- - napkins
Instruction
1. Get or allocate to the kid from already available own spoon. It has to be a convenient form, the suitable size for the child's hand. It is possible to use a usual teaspoon also. In order that the baby was defined with what hand it is more convenient to it to eat, it is possible to offer it two spoons at once. Later, having tested both, he will be defined. The children's fork and a knife should not be sharp that the kid was not wounded.
2. Choose a plate. Best of all the unbreakable plate from plastic with a special sucker at an external bottom that during feeding it did not move will approach and could not fall from a table. As the first attempts to eat independently will last long, food, most likely, will quickly cool down. Therefore it is possible to pick up a special plate with a double bottom where hot water which will allow food to remain warm longer is filled in.
3. Until the kid learns to eat accurately, put on him a special apron or an apron for feeding. It is possible to feed the kid stark naked in some shorts in the summer. You feed the child before bathing.
4. Set a personal example. At that time so far the kid learns the world, it parodies behavior of adults more and more. It concerns both the speech, and movements, and absorption of food including. Therefore when you learn families at once – it will allow to train it in behavior at a table.
5. You praise the child for successful attempts is independently and at all do not abuse and do not punish for failures. He only studies! And punishment it is possible to beat off desire to study and eat in principle only.