The Problem: Marin would push away food before even trying it or would decide she needed her independence from parental feeding and wouldn't eat unless she could feed it to herself. I went on numerous silverware hunts to find something that would actually pick up food and was user friendly to children. The toddler metal forks and spoons, not only cost a ridiculous amount, they are also useless in holding food of any type. I found myself constantly trying to balance the food on them in order to get the food to her mouth.
The Solution: Shrimp forks and tea spoons. They have the same curvature and staying power as adult silverware and are small enough for Marin to manipulate. She will now eat just about everything, because of her new found independence. The extra bonus is that I can actually eat a few bits of my own dinner occasionally.
9 comments:
That is amazing! I can't believe that a simple shrimp fork made such a difference. It is great that you will be able to enjoy dinner again!
Wow! We had that EXACT problem at dinner just tonight. I'm going tomorrow to get some of those. Marin is SO cute. I wish we could see you guys again soon!
Jane
hmm...so the regular plastic "kid" utensils didn't work?! interesting!
Regular plastic kid utensils work when they first start eating solids, but when they start feeding themselves the plastic utensils are really hard for them to keep food on.
That kid is getting so big! She is so cute. And dont worry... Carson still insists on eating all on his own. Sometimes he gets so frustrated... its actually pretty funny.
-Ryan
i just loved that you blogged about this. it brought a smile to my face! see ya later!
WOW...She is so loosing her baby look...We never tried the shrimp forks but we always have used the dessert forks. We have never even owned any "kid" plasic utencils except for the "soft grip" baby spoons I believe they are made by Gerber for baby food when they are like 6-8 mnths old...You should have called...lol :)
She is getting so big... she is so cute.... I can't wait to see you all this summer. Love ya!!
okay, seriously, how have i had four children and not discovered this? i clued in on the plastic forks before ever buying them though. those things are made to fail.
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