Dinner time with kids can be an interesting experience. More food on the floor than in their mouth: or the legendary scrunched up and averted face, which is basically the pre-lingual childs version of the blue screen of death. Only you cant reboot a child, and so you spend a happy half hour making noises like a crashing aeroplane as you fly a food laden spoon towards that resolutely closed mouth. The kid fakes you out, you go in for the kill: and now theres food all over the wallpaper as well. What you need what you have always needed are some
melamine bowls.
Melamine is the greatest thing a parent ever saw. Why? Because its practically indestructible (so when that food all over the wall turns into a plate being swept away in a tantrum, theres at least o breakages to worry about! Its also really bright and colourful; and its easy to wash. In other words, its safe and fascinating the two things every parent wants everything they ever give their child to be.
Baby feeding bowls are there to do more than just catch spillages. Once your baby realises that there are fun, colourful things at the bottom of the bowl, and that all that food has to be removed in order to see them, he or she becomes a lot more amenable to getting it out of the way. Not necessarily getting it into his or her mouth but hey, its a start, right?
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childrens cutlery set isnt a bad idea, either. Especially once your baby has grown out of totally failing to comprehend meal times and is now starting to treat this solid food stuff seriously. Just as all children must, at some point, stop wearing nappies and drinking out of rubber stopped bottles, so must they learn to cut their own food; to use a spoon; and ultimately transport nourishment from their plate to their mouths. Like the
melamine bowls, which allow children to get used to dinnerware without parents constantly fearing a trip to casualty, a childrens cutlery set will get your little oe used to all that knife fork and spoon jazz without them doing any irreversible cutting or poking.
Baby and kids dinnertime, then, doesnt need to be as trying or nerve wrecking as perhaps it sometimes is. All a parent needs is a little forward planning. For drinks use a plastic cup with a lid and a spout. For food use baby feeding bowls,
melamine bowls and kids cutlery. As your child advances in his or her eating, replace the lidded cup with a straight up melamine one and start expecting to see those baby bowls coming back clean, without their contents having been emptied all over someones head.
Sometimes, feeding time can feel like a chore that has to be gone through; then it becomes a fun game; and finally a total success. Using children's cutlery and baby feeding bowls can make the whole process easier and safer for baby and for parents too.
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