Poor toddler table manners
Hello. Mother of two boys, 2.5 years old and 1.5 years old. Recently both boys have developed some very poor table manners. Things like throwing food, flipping their plates over, screaming at the top of their lungs, sticking their feet in their food, sticking their feet in their mouths, doing everything and anything they can to be silly and make the other laugh even putting themselves in unsafe situations like pushing back from the table onto the back legs only of their high chairs or stuffing their mouths full of food and leaning their heads back things like that. To make it worse THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME AT THE TABLE. I could be calm and patient, I could loose my patience and yell and all they do is laugh in my face and continue to do whatever they are doing. Makes it harder because there are two and they tend to encourage each other. I just would love some tips on how to go about handling this. They are such good boys and such good listeners, they just really struggle at the table. I also don’t think just taking their food is an acceptable response to it because they are young and they still need to eat and I’m very sensitive to just wanting my children to have full bellies and not be hungry, but my husband and I are just so lost with how to fix this behavior. It’s not like we’ve ignored it we ALWAYS address it but I guess it’s not being addressed in the right ways? Anyway would love any advice or tips!