Look Out!

“Lookout!” may have well been the cry as hands dived from all directions to try and catch the

half-loaded spoon before it hits the floor and disperses its contents in all directions. The

perpetrator being your beautiful child. The highchair challenges that confront us are the keyways to knowledge for ourselves and our children to learn from. 

On a certain day, you decide your child is confident enough to carry the spoon from the plate to their mouth. One day you will be tricked into believing it could happen. After days, most probably weeks of practice, you allow a little more control of the accompanying child’s hand to assist you to take that steady journey across the highchair without spilling anything.

Then suddenly one day, you realise you haven’t heard anyone else calling out ‘lookout’ and

there’s been no sound of a spoon hitting the kitchen floor? Success has come slowly. 

Along with cleaning up the floor, the highchair, and then of course lastly the perpetrator

before lifting them out and setting them free to experience new life adventures around the

safety of your own home, you need to be proud that as a parent, a guardian, your input

to the most important part of your child’s long-life adventures with what they eat and survive on, has now truly begun.

Once we discover the ‘Here comes the aeroplane’ move is a thing of the past, the ‘begging

to learn’ hand has finally been given control to ensure your workload as a guardian is added

to, then the first part of the food story in your life is well underway. Now the encouragement

to eat what’s right, becomes the new battle of your guardianship. Who knows?