The majority of the issue is our 2.5-year-old throwing food on the floor--and without the infant-level gaze of curiosity/mystique. Sometimes it seems to be because he's finished eating (we try to remind/model for him to say "I'm full" or "I'm finished" and praise him when he remembers and offer him a reward), but sometimes he clearly consciously grabs and throws the food and then cries when we clean it up and throw it away because he wasn't finished eating... to which we just say we don't eat food off the floor and if you throw food, you don't get a second helping. Is this something we just need to wait to sink in, or is there a method I'm missing to expedite/assist this process so he stops wasting so much food?This habit of his is extending to other areas of life, too... He chucked a toy he liked into the potty (one that I couldn't sanitize without wrecking it, so it had to be thrown away), and then he asked after it and kept having to be reminded "You threw it in the potty and it got icky and had to be thrown away." He threw his sunglasses into the lake at the park--same deal. "Where are my sunglasses?" "You threw them in the lake and we're not allowed in the lake, so they have to stay there." Am I going about this the wrong way? Is there a more efficient way to get through to him, or is this just one of those "live and learn" areas of growth that we have to endure? via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2ZHMNC2
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