If your child drops or throws food on the floor, do you pick it up and give it back to them or throw it away?

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I am going mad with my 2 year old constantly throwing his food. I handed him a whole banana and he threw it on the floor. But he still wanted it. I didn’t want to waste a whole damn banana so I picked off a piece of fuzz from it and handed it back to him. 😩🤷‍♀️ I’m just aggravated. He wastes so much food throwing it. If it’s something solid like a pancake or a pretzel, I tend to just give it back to him. I do mop my floors every day at least.

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Giving it back to them is no different than if they were playing on the floor and you handed them a snack. The germs are already on their hands. (Unless you wash your kid’s hands every time they touch the floor… and who does that? Lol). Most dirt and germs on routinely clean floors are not harmful.

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Depending on what it is I’ll just rinse it off and give it back

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I said throw it away before reading the whole post, but in the situation you described I would give it back. We don’t have pets, and don’t wear shoes in the house so our floors aren’t THAT dirty. God knows if she finds a stray cheerio or goldfish she’s popping that in her mouth immediately anyways lol

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Ew no. I throw out 😬

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If our kids intentionally throw food, they don’t get it back and we take their plate for a 10-20 seconds. If they want to eat, they need to eat nice. If they drop something on accident, we toss it.

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That’s normal! It’s part of development! It’s frustrating but it’s normal and they are just a baby. Just take a deep breath. It’s part of their development.

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Just dropping? Generally tend to throw it away. My table is situated close to the back door, which is the entrance my 140 lb dog uses to go in and out several times a day. Unless I've mopped in the last hour or so since the dog last went through, I'm not giving dropped food back. But if I've mopped between the last time the dog went in/out and dinner time, then I'm fine with them eating dropped food from the floor. 
But throwing? I don't teach my kids that they get food back if they're going to throw it. 
By the time they are that age, meal time is over when food throwing starts. Obviously it's age dependent so I'm not going to do it to an 8 month old that won't understand that. 
They get two chances after. Throw food, it goes away for 5 minutes and they leave the table. Give it back after five minutes and try again. They throw it again, we do the same thing once more. But after the third time throwing food, the meal is over.

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Food off the floor Is good for their immune systems, unless it’s like a puddle of mud, then no throw it 🤣

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I said hand it back but I just leave it and he eats it off the floor 😅

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Depends on what it is. If it’s dry food I give it back. If it’s wet food it goes in the bin

If your child drops or throws food on the floor, do you pick it up and give it back to them or throw it away?

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