9yo eating habits

Dear all..

Just wondering 🤔

What are age-appropriate eating habits for a 9yo? (without developmental delays/issues)

I personally feel like.. They should be able to eat with certain manners.. Like cut their food and place it in their mouths without getting it all over their face.

It's always a struggle (between my husband and his 9yo) to have said 9yo eating with a knife, spreading his own bread, to not hang from the side of the table, to not get food all over the face,..

It's so much a struggle because the mom doesn't need him to cut his meat or eat his vegetables or spread his bread or to eat his crusts...

I guess I want to ask.. Are we asking too much on his age?

@Doodle

Yes I get that, but rather than doing as told (to practice, after being explained a lot of times) he just says he doesn't want to.

So the struggle is really about getting him to practice.

Ofcourse it's not about him being perfect instantly, it's that he doesn't want to practice and learn because his mom doesn't support it.