How to use the spoon
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Spoon eating is really complicated. We should expect them to be getting better at the idea of how to dip the spoon in closer to two. It takes a lot of fine motor skills to put all the pieces together so offering it consistently and modeling how to use utensils is more beneficial as they need to practice a lot.
My daughter’s 13 months and didn’t fully understand it. It takes them a while to get it right
Mine is 2 and still struggles with self feeding using a spoon
It comes with time as their fine motor skills and coordination develop. It’s quite a difficult thing to learn, takes time. My son didn’t really entertain cutlery when we started weaning,it was more of a distraction, we didn’t use it that much but he was always very good at using his hands to feed. Then suddenly around 15 months he started picking up my fork and spoon and fed himself. He’s now 19 months and eats well with a fork, spoon is still hit and miss 🙂
My son won’t give me back the spoon😂😂🤦🏽♀️ he would much rather throw it on the floor than give it back! Or he wants me to use the spoon for him.
Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences! I was worried I was late to teach her lol
My son does the same. It’ll take a little while I think, babies mostly learn through copying so I always eat with him and show him how I eat with utensils and we’re seeing some improvements but he still doesn’t know how to actually load the spoon and feed himself