my 4 year old is in a high chair and will not dit any where else to eat her food!!what to do?
Try setting up a playdate for your daughter.. maybe if she has older cousins or neighborhood friends around her age and .. having them all sit at a table to eat. Sometimes having peer's her own age can help her adjust to new things. Taking her high chair away and putting it up in storage will not leave her a choice to sit in one. Try introducing her to a playschool toddler table and maybe having her sit there with you... while you eat a snack together.. Or try setting up her food at the family table when you serve her. Make it exciting... Maybe start off with coloring pictures at the family table before snack time, and inadvertantly bring her snack to her there ... Tell her that today is a very special day and you'll be having a special kinda snack/meal and decorate a chair at the family table for her to sit in.. like a princess chair.. Remember who's the child and who's the adult, children do what their parents allow them to do.
If you are really concerned about it, why not explain to your daughter that high chairs are for babies and she is a big girl now. Tell her that there is a little baby out there who needs it and go with your daughter to drop the high chair off at a thrift store. Or, Offer her an option at every meal. Tell her she is a big girl now, and ask her if she would like to sit at the table with all the other big people. If she says no, don't make a big deal about it, just do the same every time. Or, you could just wait until she outgrows it. She will eventually, especially after she starts school. Good luck!
Have you tried to get a booster chair instead. It's a small chair that attaches to a regular table chair. Make it a big kid game.....your child might go for it.... Good luck!
