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Dec. 10th, 2004 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckDelia's giving us a hard time over meals now. She doesn't want to sit down and eat. We get her in her booster seat and put food on the tray. She'll eat a bite or two and then do what Scott describes as 'throwing a zerk." She smashes her hands down on whatever's on the tray then sweeps it off onto the floor. This is frequently accompanied by an insistent shout of, "Stairs! Stairs!" Scott and I are agreed that she will *not* get to go up and down the stairs right after a zerk. Sadly, I don't think she's making the connection. The fact that the meal generally ends seems to be reward enough.
I'm trying to decide if what we need to do is to make her sit in her chair for a while, say 5 minutes, with her tray empty and no attempts to entertain her. Is 18 months too young to understand that as a response? It can be hard to tell what Delia understands and what she doesn't. The sit in the chair strategy seems sound enough, though.
I'm trying to decide if what we need to do is to make her sit in her chair for a while, say 5 minutes, with her tray empty and no attempts to entertain her. Is 18 months too young to understand that as a response? It can be hard to tell what Delia understands and what she doesn't. The sit in the chair strategy seems sound enough, though.
