With helper around, their idea is to get the child has their meals as fast as they can without much mess. So ended they are feeding the children and they loss the chances to learn feeding themselves in the early stage.
Days without helper, I'm teaching janelle to be more independent. :) so indeed of me feeding her breakfast, I want her to feed herself. We started with her taking fork to feed herself (good job) but she would throw it to the floor... :( day1, mummy morning exercise was picking up fork for her. Slowing telling her that she need to put the fork on the plate/table after each mouth and it's comes with encouragement and rewards with "yeah!!!" in a super high tone every time she did it. Day 2, yes, she managed to do it, she would put fork on the table :)
Next step, mommy is training her how to pick up the food herself. According to PT, That's not a easy job for them as it's required fine motor skill and need her to focus and concentrate. Really hope in the near future I have another clip to share.
But this is a good start of 2012, am looking forward for more.
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