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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Put on music.  Try reading to him while he eats.  Applaud each additional bite after "up, up, up".  [/quote]

Music is a good idea. When he was younger I started to let him play with toys while I spoon fed purees, oatmeal, etc. and then it got worse and we needed youtube videos. At that point we realized the distraction was doing more harm than good (we wanted to be no screen time people and here we were tricking our kid to eat with TV) so we cut it out cold turkey. I do read to him before bed and he drinks a few ounces of milk during that time, if I wasn't reading, he'd never sit still long enough to drink. But I worry a bit that reading to him in the chair is trending towards the distraction route.[/quote]

I wouldn't worry that reading to him is a distraction "crutch".  I don't know of any adult who can happily sit through a meal without conversation, the TV or a book.  Once he is older, conversation will be his distraction.  We never did screen time until DD was five and still have never watched TV when we or she ate.  [/quote]

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