Hi, this is Janet Landsbury. Welcome to One Ruffled. Today I'm going to be talking about the

meal time challenges parents face, behaviors like throwing food down, children getting

up from the table and wanting to come back and get up and come back, refusing food,

picky eating, I don't even want to eat. Or sometimes when children seem to be taking

forever at the table and we're sitting for a very long time wondering what to do because

our child is still seeming to want to eat. And then another parent also asked, how do

I teach my child table manners? So I'm going to be attempting to cover all of these issues

in this podcast. Okay, so just to let you know a little about my process, this may end up

on the cutting room floor, but I was thinking about this and just kind of laughing at myself.

So I got this question that I'm going to read very simple, straightforward, short question

and I thought, great, I'm going to address that on my podcast this week. And then the

more I started thinking about it, what I would say and how I would help this parent with

her issue, I realized I could do at least a five part series of webinars on this topic

and probably still not say everything I want to say. So I get a little overwhelmed and

then I realize, okay, just go for it and share what seems most important and hopefully it

will be helpful to people. So here's the question I received. Hi Janet, it was a pleasure

reading your book. I have one question when we say toddler, what age are we referring

to to do specific, disciplining like throwing food on the floor. My baby is one year old

and she constantly throws food on the floor. Do you mean I need to not serve food even

with a one year old? So this parent has obviously heard my advice about ending a meal if a

child is showing you that they're done by doing things that they know they're not supposed

to do, like playing around with food or jump up and come back. And for me, this exemplifies

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