I have become the Mom from "A Christmas Story"

[ians_mommy]

...the scene where the little one is eating his dinner like "a piggy at the trough".

Last night DS drank his milk with a spoon and ate his veg soup with his hands while sitting on a dump truck pulled up to a chair. This morning breakfast was eaten on a towel in the living room.

I haven't decided yet if I should care about all this, but I know my mother is rolling over in her grave.

[tumblebeee]

My DS likes to drink his water, juice, milk etc. with a spoon too. I figure it is giving him good practice with his fine motor skills!

[AllisonR]

Aw, sounds lovely. FWIW, I'm pretty casual about eating. We always eat at the table, but slurping, drinking with spoons, gross jokes... is allowed. Often my kids crack me up with what they do or say, so I can't get really firm or mad, kwim? DH, otoh, is better with limits, telling them they are acting like pigs, to go to the toilet if they want to say fart and poop all the time....

You know the best part, kids are smart. They know there is one set of rules at home, another at daycare, another when company comes.... So while they egg each other on with burping and then saying "EXCUSE MEEE" profusely when we are alone, they just don't when we have company over or when they are at day care.

[Dov'sMom]

Count yourself lucky.

For two months, my then 18-20 month old insisted on pouring his drink out on the table or his plate and slurping it up off his finger. I'd watch him teh whole time and turn my back for a second and he did it again. He'd have a sippy cup in the stroller and I'd see he'd patiently shook the whole thing out into the stroller tray and was happily dipping his fingers and slurping away.

Does it get more disgusting? I am SO glad we are done with that battle.