Well I'm ready to admit that Justin and I did a bad thing for our son already. Aydan is the slowwwwwest eater ever. And to just get the meal over with quicker we have always just spoon feed him ourselves. He's totally capable of doing it himself, but he play and chews slowly (like hr and half on his own, goo), so we hurry him along and spoon it in, remind him to keep chewing and to speed it up basically.
But now with two kids, I don't have time to sit and spoil him rotten anymore like that. So the last week and few days, I've been trying to break him of it. NO toys to the table (distractions). He gets his meal, spoon, and fork and he has to eat everything on his own. Sometimes I put a cartoon on in backround. He has to leave the table occasionally for time out. Some meals still take over an hour, but some good ones are only 30 minutes. We're getting there. We did it for so long, so it may take awhile to break it, but I'm sticking to it! He may always be a slow eater, but he'll eat on his own, or his won't eat! As his grandpa says (a doctor), he'll eat when he's hungry, he'll be just fine. :)
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