feedback for "Parental Advisory: Dine and Dash"
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This is why there used to be a children's table and earlier feeding time for children. They need to practice using table manners before they are ready for public dining.
Great article. Thanks.
posted by : awanawr on 4/16/2008 at 2:08 PM Flag For Abuse
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Try a booster seat that straps to the chair and has a lap belt.
posted by : chyna823 on 4/16/2008 at 2:42 PM Flag For Abuse
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First make sure your child is physically comfortable at the table. Eating with your legs danging and elbows above your face is not conducive to eating well.
Get a Tripp Trapp.
And my kid is 3.5, obsessively uses his napkin, insists on a full table setting every meal (he sets the table), and won't talk with his mouth full...at home. Take him to a restaurant, however, and he's a DISASTER. Can't stay in the chair, wants to climb under the table...
I don't know how the French do it.
posted by : AnnaElla on 4/16/2008 at 8:08 PM Flag For Abuse
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Everything else aside, good table manners are just so friggin' cute. After eighty gazillion reminders, our three-year-old now asks "May I be excused please?" in an adorable singsong voice before he leaves the table. It just about makes my ovaries explode every time.
posted by : Doppelganger on 4/17/2008 at 12:15 AM Flag For Abuse
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My 3 1/2 year old is always wiggling, twisting, turning and what resembles and circus act of balancing on the brace of the chair legs. His grimmy mits are holding on to the back of his chair all the while.
I've recently started taking his chair away. It's really hard to take the anger out of saying, "Turn around" "keep your feet under the table" countless times in one sitting but I somehow manage.
It gets better, right?
posted by : Candes on 4/17/2008 at 10:43 AM Flag For Abuse
