Like some preschool aged children, my son is fixated on one food for dinner: he'll eat the same thing each night, for months at a time.
Gone is the Italian turkey meatloaf! Now my son eats plain buttered salted pasta (angel hair to be exact--it takes three minutes to cook!).
But what a mess!
Sometimes I just can't watch.
However, isn't observing your child part of the Montessori philosophy! Well... yeah. So I have to watch my son eat his messy meal. Darn!
And guess what! By watching him suck down his noodles, I caught him trying to pick up the spaghetti strands using the pincer grasp--a very hard task for children with Down syndrome! Dinner has become a great fine motor activity for him!
Now I look at his messy meal as an educational feast!
I must come up with some more pasta dishes for my little guy to practice his fine motor development!
Too bad he won't eat peas! Hey! Wait a minute... if I stick some green peas in his pasta, he'll have to USE HIS PINCER GRASP to pick them out!
I'm off to the store to buy some frozen peas! (And more pasta!)
