My 10 month old refuses to eat in her high chair...?

Question

my 10 month old will not eat in her high chair. She will just throw her food on the floor or try to get out. I usually get her down and then follow her around her room, offering her a bite so she still gets some solids in. She will also eat in her bumbo chair if cartoons are on but that isnt a good habbit to have. How can I get her to sit down in her high chair and eat? I know I can't keep following her around feeding her bites around the house...what should I do?

And yes, I have tried tons of food, she refuses them all or sticks her tounge out.

Answer 1

She may just want to eat at the table with you.  Get her a booster seat so that she can be at the table but still secure  :)

Answer 2

Haha. I am familiar with a stubborn child! My solution to you would be to be the authoritarian in this case. Let her know that if she wants to eat, she eats in the high chair. If she throws a fit, and throws her food, she doesn't eat until she is willing to sit in the high chair. As hard as that is, she will learn quickly. It's heartbreaking, and the whole time you will be a maternal worry-wart, but following her around with food is only enforcing her idea that she doesn't have to eat where she doesn't want. And that is the beginning to some big fights! :P. Simply take aways the food, and let her down. If she comes back later for food, put her in the high chair. When she is hungry enough, she will eat wherever.

~Meg

Answer 3

Don't feed her if she's not in the high chair. If she throws her food once, tell her no and give it back to her, but warn that you will take it away if she does it again. If she does, follow through. Don't take her out or follow her around, or give it to her in her bumbo, it's teaching her that she can make Mommy her slave.

Answer 4

Well, she's testing you. She knows if she throws a fit, you'll give her what she wants. Have you tried a booster chair with a buckle and pulling her up to the table so she feels like an adult? Do you sit with her or just stick the food on her tray and walk over to the counter and start cleaning up? Put her in a booster at the table and sit with her while she eats and eat with her so you're modeling the behavior you want her to have. If she throws food, she gets one warning. If she throws again, she gets down and dinner's over. Don't follow her and give her food. If she's hungry, she'll eat at mealtime. If she doesn't eat, she won't starve to death. Just put her in the chair for the next meal. Right now it's a power struggle and she's winning.  

Answer 5

put her in that chair, give her the food, tell her shes not leaving the chair until she eats.  if she doesn't eat, then she goes without food...she'll learn,  it Will be hard at first because through your actions, you've told her you aren't serious about what you say...but it'll get there.

Answer 6

if she is stable whene sitting try moving her to a boster seat at the regular table that way she feels more conected to you she may eat better if she feels included at the family meal at the table with you it helped my son. hope I helped.

Answer 7

Who says sitting in her bumbo chair to eat isn't a good habit?  Maybe she's trying to tell you that that is what she is ready for. Ditch the highchair and just feed her from her booster or bumbo. I think that that would be a much better habit than just following her around.