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My toddler is learning to feed by herself, and is at the stage where a fit of crankiness can cause her dinner plate be upturned or to go flying across the room.
One solution seems to be to fit a gyroscope stabiliser to the bottom of the plate. By doing this it will be difficult to to flip the plate
with a sudden movement. If it flies off the table, it will land face up.
The gyroscope assembly could be integrated in with the plate, but perhaps removable for plate cleaning.
A retrofit version for conventional plates could also be deployed.
As the child gets older the thing could be used as a gyroscope teaching aid.
Gerber Training Plate...
http://www.drugstor...le_training_rim.htm
"...with Suction Cup Base and Detachable Training Rim." Popup warning. [phoenix, Oct 04 2004]
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A gyroscope might keep a spinning plate balanced, but if someone's sending a plate of food across the room, there's still going to be a mess to clean up. |
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Plates designed for children have a rim to help prevent food flying off the plate. The younger the child the higher the rim. These are the plates I had in mind. |
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There are some suction-addons for some plates which work ok for a for a few minutes, but from then on, they just add mass when the plate goes flying. |
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If her fits of crankiness have no result, your toddler will either learn that she has no effect on the world, or that being cranky doesn't matter, neither goal being one I imagine you desire. |
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Well, [DrCurry], I'm not sure if you are a parent. Fits of crankiness near food always have a result. In the issue under discussion, there is a generally a flurry of activity involving a trash can and cleaning fluid. |
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You throw your daughter in the trash?! |
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Hey, don't knock it. It worked for me... |
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Why didn't I think of Suction cups? That's Brilliant (maybe why). Food catching chairs that also have a shower attachment would be nice too.
[DrCurry], I thought that an acceptable approach is to ignore some not-prefered behavior, while celebrating & rewarding prefered behavior. This seems to work pretty well If you can grit your teeth and bear it for a while (poor carpet). |
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