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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not aimed at the OP, but at other previous posters. There's absolutely no reason parents need to be so controlling about how and when children eat. The important thing is that they do eat. When children are forced to sit and eat or finish their plates, or milk etc and they are strapped into highchairs while their wants and needs are disregarded the children internalize it can become anxious, feel out of control and stop trusting their own physical responses about if they are full. This is a good way to set your child up with an anxiety disorder, an/or eating disorder. There is absolutely no reason why a child can't feed themselves at a child table. Throwing food is a stage that toddlers love to do. It passes, but a bad relationship with food does not.[/quote]

Enforcing a rule that eating must happen in the high chair is about location alone not about being forced to sit or clean their plates or whatever else.

If my toddler wants to eat she must sit in the high chair. Period.  That's it.   If she resisted - I wouldn't actually force her in the chair,  she just wouldn't get any food. ("you want the banana, you need to sit in your chair.")  It took being 100% consistent but now she knows food = high chair.  There is nothing about this position that requires her to eat, clean her plate, or any of the other things mentioned.  She has total control of whether and how much she eats.

There is no room in my kitchen for a child table and I don't have the bandwidth to mop the floors 3x/day.   (I am totally into RIE, visible child, respectful parenting -  holding clear limits  is not disrespectful,  nor will it create disorders.) [/quote]

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