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Toddler Q: utensils

Just curious, about when did those if you with toddlers notice them start to pick up the concept of using utensils?  V is 17 months and I am pretty sure understands how to use a spoon and fork, but will just pretty much hold one in his hand and use the other hand to dig into the food on his plate.

Any tips on how to guide him in the right direction?

Re: Toddler Q: utensils

  • I kind of just let her do it on her own, she watches us and learns from that I guess. I always put a fork/spoon out with her meal, sometimes she uses it other times she uses her hands if it's easier. I have noticed that plastic utensils are difficult f

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  • Anyone I asked about this told me "Oh he/she learned it at daycare". Thanks, super helpful. We just kept giving him a spoon and fork at each meal, and gradual it just clicked.  
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  • Similar to above posts, I have been letting 16 month old DD more or less do her own thing.  I give her a spoon and fork with her meals when appropriate and she uses them when she feels like it.  As soon as she gets frustrated, we digs back in wi
  • Thanks, this is in line with what I was thinking.  I don't want to force him because as with anything, he will refuse and it's not worth the fight.  This is one random thing that I just had no idea where he should be developmentally.

  • M knows how to use spoon and fork for a while. Maybe like shortly after a year. He still eats with his hands certain foods. 

     We taught fork before spoon. We should him how to stab and then he learned to shovel?  

  • We started trying to engage him with utensils very casually for the last 3 months (he's 15 mo now). For the spoon, I preload it hold it out for him to grab as I guide it to his mouth.  He's pretty good about taking it right to his mouth without du

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  • Ugh, I swear forks and spoons are a pita. It's so much faster when they just shove shiit into their mouths...
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  • Oliver was probably 2 when he really got the hang of it. If he has something he wants to really shovel into his mouth (like mac & cheese) he'll ask me "can I use my hands?"
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  • Brooks seems to prefer metal ones and always has. Like the pp, we started with stabbing forks and not spoons, he's still better with a fork than a spoon. I started with him around 10 months with a fork, but he didn't get the hang of it for a few months. W
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  • Hunter started using a spoon around 10 or 11 months maybe??.  I'm not sure when we started giving him a fork, but I know he used one on Ukrainian Christmas and that was in January.  He's ok with it.  We would hold his hand around the fork,
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  • imageMsKellDel:

    I kind of just let her do it on her own, she watches us and learns from that I guess. I always put a fork/spoon out wit

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