Advent Therapy: Every One Unique

It’s mealtime with your 9 month old baby and it’s spaghetti night.  You cut the noodles into small bites, put them in a bowl, and top them with some sauce.  You sit down with a spoon and start feeding your baby.  But she is having none of it.  She just keeps grabbing at the spoon.  And when she does get her chubby little hands on it, she won’t let go.  Spaghetti is starting to fly.  If this isn’t bad enough, she begins smearing the bits of stray spaghetti all around on her tray and then…her face.  Balled up fists move in the general direction of her mouth, but much of the time they miss their target.  You are beginning to regret adding so much sauce to the bowl.  While on one hand you can appreciate the cuteness of the moment, you are also desperately hoping to regain control (and cleanliness).  Taking a deep breath, you wipe off her face and her tray and start again.

If this scenario sounds familiar, you are not alone.  And if the parent’s actions described above sound reasonable to you, you are also not alone.  Before our time is up today, I hope to convince you that there is a better way to managing mealtimes with your littles.  And that the better way is really quite simple:

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