Throwing things -- food from high chair, toys on wooden floor (neighbors below...)

Mallory - posted on 09/08/2009

I thought my son was the only one who did this..My son Ayden will only throw and put toys in his mouth. It is so frustating but my doctor says it's just their personaility. I hope he gets out of this stage soon!!!

Kathryn - posted on 09/07/2009

Hi, I tend to have a stern word with my little boy (which makes no difference!) then I take the food away and by that point he's usually having a temper tantrum! I wait for him to calm down then I offer the food again. If he refuses it or throws his food again I take him out of the highchair, I don't believe that forcing the issue helps, only makes you and him frustrated! I tend to offer him a healthy snack earlier than I would usually to compensate for not eating his lunch.

Megan - posted on 09/02/2009

Yeah we have a thrower too. If he throws his food we take his plate away wait a few minutes and see if he is still hungry after a few minutes. he also loves throwing his toys at people (has hit at least everyone once! lol) when he does it we refuse to give it back and put it up so when hes down on the floor he cant get that toy.



Weve changed to only giving him certain toys in the high chair, he loves to play with his cardboard type books and wont throw them as much so he mostly "reads" in his high chair and plays with the rest of his toys at ground level.



If your son is doing it in the kitchen while walking around then I would suggest a no toy rule in the kitchen maybe. As for disturbing your neighbours, unless its late at night or they have to sleep during the day, you can be nice and just let them know whats up or if they are rude about it tell them hes just a little guy and really has no clue about them living there hes just being a kid.



if ya live under someone who has a young kid either learn to live with the chaos or find a quieter place somewhere else! lol



At one point both my older kids had sleep troubles when they were younger, I would have to just let them cry it out (not long or anything but enough to know mommy isnt going to bring that extra drink or check for monsters for the 10th time in a row) and i told my neighbours so they knew, most understood but one or two would freak since my kids had excellent lungs! lmao

Shelley - posted on 09/01/2009

thank you to the mommies who responded



I will cross my fingers too -- and keep us posted :-)

Patricia - posted on 09/01/2009

My girl is a thrower of food, drives me quietly up the wall.
I have been ignoring it and telling everyone else to ignore her when she does it (for past few months) to no avail. My hubbie and I are going to try a new tactic of only letting her eat for 15min's and if she throws before this we will tell her that throwing food is not a good thing and take the plate away. If she wants the food back we will tell her that she can have it back but no throwing otherwise we will take the plate away for good and meal time would be over...and follow it up by taking the plate away if she does.
Fingers crossed.

Jessica - posted on 09/01/2009

good ot know i'm not the only one with a thrower. he usually just throws things from his high chair, and laughs... lil stinker. but we tell him no and he doesn't get his drink or whatever back till he gets down. sometimes we'll wait a while after he gets down. sounds like you are doing everything possible to keep it under control, i say just keep on doing what you are doing.

Deidre - posted on 09/01/2009

This is perfectly stage worthy because Ethan is doing the THROW everthing thing too... Ethan tends to do it when he is finished. I do not give it back. As fo your boy I'm confident he'll be fantastic with sports! Beleive me it's never to early to start. I've got 3 boys and when Christian was 1.5 he was swinging a plastic bowling pin with one hand and hiting the baseball with it.ONE HANDED I was sooooooo proud!