I've had some slow eaters here too. And I have a gagger who was just sent home yesterday for gagging himself and throwing up all over his lunch plate, ewwwww! HE IS 4 YEARS OLD! But anyway, back to the slow eaters. At breakfast I let them take as long as they need until it's time to go outside, then I take their food away. At lunch I've had them miss circle time and go straight from the lunch table to their beds.
As they grow older they should learn to understand that they are missing out on fun times but I had a little girl who did this right up until the time she left for JK. I learned to give her really small portions and if she miraculously ate something quickly, then I gave her some more, but I was always throwing food in the garbage and that makes me upset.

































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