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Originally Posted by germaine2626
You are the adult and she is the child. If your rules are to sit at the table to eat dinner then those are the rules that she needs to follow.
I'm a retired early childhood special education teacher. Time and time again parents would tell me that their child "never sits down to eat" and these same children would sit at the table and eat snack at school without any problem.
I remember one home visit where the 4 year old student would run around the room, slow down and grab a bite of hot dog while still running and then make another circle or two around the livingroom before grabbing another bite of his lunch. He ate the entire hog dog that way. His mom said that he never sat down to eat at home. Mom said that she only gave him food that he could eat while "on the run". She didn't believe me when I said that it wasn't a problem at school. I invited her to come to school and to arrive during our snack time. Mom did & was amazed to see her son eating his snack and drinking his juice while sitting at the table.
I expected him to sit and gently reminded him to sit a few times (and ignored his screaming & complaining) and he started sitting at the table within a few days of when school started. It took his family a lot longer to break his bad habit at home but fairly quickly he sat down to eat as well.
Good luck to you. I'm sure that it will work for you as well.
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Originally Posted by Bakeneko
Yikes, that sounds crazy dangerous - HotDogs are one of the foods kids are most likely to choke on
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I know. I sometimes wonder how some of my students even survived childhood with the "poor choices' their parents made. This child
did start to sit down at the table and eat with his family and Mom
did start to cut up easy to choke on foods (after I suggested that to her).
P.S. I just remembered that Tommy and his brothers
did not survive childhood after the huge fire in their house. Their parents did not have working smoke detectors. But, sadly, that is a topic for a different thread.
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