There's no reason to sabotage your dinners when they're older by making them hate dinner time now. Is to remember that toddlers are not yet developmentally ready for the kind of dinner you can have with older kids, and they're not toddlers for long. The kind of family dinner that you can do with older kids, with manners and discussion, is obviously going to be stressful with a toddler. Stress out the child will by definition stress out the parent, and forgo those. Your stated goal is to get a good dinner into the toddler and NOT have the experience be stressful for the parents.

Having a nice time for the family to connect every evening? Getting the toddler to eat a healthy dinner? Getting them used to eating with the family? I would suggest that families begin by clarifying their goals. I would never strap a child into a chair as a restraint in order to keep them sitting at dinner - at least not if you want a stress-free dinner (and an It pointless to sit at the table watching other people eat when they want to move around. Two year olds are rarely hungry on adult timetables and are easily filled up, and most find To graze, but that it is normal for toddlers to graze.

The reason most moms have toddlers who won't sit down for dinner is not that they have been 'allowed' Olds, are developmentally ready to sit still for one. This is a great question, because every parent wants a lovely, stress-free, nutritious family dinner, while few three year olds and even fewer two year

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