plates and bowls

Everytime we've gone somewhere and given the boys plates with food on it, they promptly pick it up and dump it and try to eat the plate or throw it...whatever...they just won't leave it alone. Is it bc I don't put plates on their high chair trays? I usually just put their food on the trays. How do you get them to leave the plates alone?

 

I think my kids were all well over a year old before I could give them plates & bowls. After that, it's really just a lot of telling them & reminding them that they can't play with them. I still sometimes have to remind my 3 year olds that plates aren't toys.

 

We didn't do plates until after a year too and like Tina said, mine still play with them sometimes.

 

Ok good to know We had my nephews bday party and tonight had pizza over at my moms, who doesn't have highchairs, so I've never really thought about it until we were in the situation.

 

Mine weren't able to really use plates until after 18 months. There are still times where they will still throw it but they are much better with it.

 

Not until about 15 months I would say that they finally would leave it on their tray most of the time.

 

We didn't start using plates until 18 months or so. I just would clean the table whereever we would go and put the food on it. Also, we had these for when we ate out.