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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 537042" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>I don't know if the messy eating ever stops. My difficult child will be 23 this fall, and I can still read his daily menu from his shirtfront and around his lips.</p><p></p><p>The youngest 4 of my Monster Collection all have sensory food quirks of one sort or other:</p><p></p><p>Little easy child, 10, has stains on the shoulders of every t-shirt he owns from where he wipes his mouth. We have (finally...sigh) taught him the right method to use a knife and fork for maximum effectiveness, </p><p>but he reverses his hands. Knife in left hand, fork in right. He's ambidextrous, as am I, so this is just a preference for him. I'm willing to live with it. The finish on our kitchen table has completely worn away at Little easy child's spot from repeated scrubbing of the table after meals. If you lift his plate, there is a plate-shaped ring of food on the placemat, then little stalagmites spreading slowly out in all directions.</p><p></p><p>Tyrantina, 2 1/2, loves to squish things and smear things. She ends up with a clown-mouth of whatever she's eating, and food-gloves, but she doesn't tear into it like the boys do.</p><p></p><p>Tyrannosaur, also 2 1/2, seems fascinated by the laws of physics as they apply to food. Honestly, I get a kick out of watching him eat pancakes, just to see what he does with the syrup. He puts his hands in it and then "lathers" them until he has a pair of syrup-gauntlets that go up to the elbows. He then proceeds to stick himself to things, and then slowly peel off, to see how far his skin stretches before release. He stops only when the syrup turns to shellac (or I hoist him out of his chair into a hot bath, whichever comes first).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 537042, member: 3907"] I don't know if the messy eating ever stops. My difficult child will be 23 this fall, and I can still read his daily menu from his shirtfront and around his lips. The youngest 4 of my Monster Collection all have sensory food quirks of one sort or other: Little easy child, 10, has stains on the shoulders of every t-shirt he owns from where he wipes his mouth. We have (finally...sigh) taught him the right method to use a knife and fork for maximum effectiveness, but he reverses his hands. Knife in left hand, fork in right. He's ambidextrous, as am I, so this is just a preference for him. I'm willing to live with it. The finish on our kitchen table has completely worn away at Little easy child's spot from repeated scrubbing of the table after meals. If you lift his plate, there is a plate-shaped ring of food on the placemat, then little stalagmites spreading slowly out in all directions. Tyrantina, 2 1/2, loves to squish things and smear things. She ends up with a clown-mouth of whatever she's eating, and food-gloves, but she doesn't tear into it like the boys do. Tyrannosaur, also 2 1/2, seems fascinated by the laws of physics as they apply to food. Honestly, I get a kick out of watching him eat pancakes, just to see what he does with the syrup. He puts his hands in it and then "lathers" them until he has a pair of syrup-gauntlets that go up to the elbows. He then proceeds to stick himself to things, and then slowly peel off, to see how far his skin stretches before release. He stops only when the syrup turns to shellac (or I hoist him out of his chair into a hot bath, whichever comes first). [/QUOTE]
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