How long do meals take with your toddler? My 2.5yo takes FOREVER to eat. She doesn’t get up and down or anything, she just dawdles and eats little bits for a long time. She’s always been like this, and now my 10mo is doing the same thing. Like lunch will easily take an hour if not more. And now that my toddler is in preschool in the mornings and we have to start lunch later, it’s pushing her nap late too and really messing with our schedule.

I remember always being hungry as a kid because I ate slowly and my parents would put a time limit on meals and I never finished when everyone else did, and I don’t want to do that. But how can I speed things up a little at meal times?