I have started caring for a 2yr old (not long turned 2)... she is via the 2yr old scheme and with me for the reason that she is stifled with love and care by her parents - she has had mum and dad with her every single second of the day every day for all her life.
anyway she is settling in nicely..... I have a couple of concerns that I am keeping a close eye on though, one being....
meal/eating times.... she waits to be fed... (can deal with this and she is slowly starting to feed her self, she is learning to handle a knife and fork) she only opens her lips a fraction and is obviously only used to being fed tiny tiny tiny bits as if she was a weaning baby. We have moved on very slightly with lots of encouragment but what she has started doing now is storing food in her cheeks - so much so that she bulges and it starts to spill out her mouth.
So what do you do about a child that stores food in their mouth? This is a new one on me.
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