Shoveling food !

[Judy Trickett]

where he started to choke and I had to get the food out of his mouth from choking!!! This needs to change.

If I have kids who are shovellers to the point of it being a risk to their health then this is what I do:

I pull their dominant hand/arm through their arm hole of their shirt so it is inside their shirt and against their abdomen at meal times. Then I give them a fork in their NON dominant hand. Chances are that at some point they will not use the fork and just use the hand but I have found that shovelling is far reduced when they are using a non-dominant hand.

I used to have a kid here too who shovelled until she literally choked. She would finish a plate of food in literally a minute or two that took the other kids 10 minutes to eat. The arm in the shirt thing worked wonders. NOW she understands HOW to eat without shovelling.