Children's language skills may also influence other activities, such as participating in
conversation during mealtimes, dressing and undressing, and going from one activity to another,» Meland explains.
Teachers have an opportunity to engage students in cognitively challenging
conversations at critical times
during the day: book reading, playtime, and
mealtimes.
There are many opportunities for
conversation with children throughout the day — when they first arrive,
during everyday tasks and
mealtimes, and when they are engaged in play.
I think I finally broke that circle with him, taking the attention «from the food» to the kids) but I think that could be the reason his brother JP who eats everything that gets to his hands since a baby is trying to get my attention but I don't know what else to say or do to prevent those things to happen because he starts sitting with his feet on the table, eats with his hands, I've tried asking him to behave or leave upstairs, tried to make
mealtime fun, I've tried ignoring the bad behavior and focusing on the
conversation, what has worked because he finishes and ask for permission to leave, the mayor problem that I see is that he is not getting the message that i am trying to send that he is as important as his brother not only
during mealtime, and his little sister follows him a lot so now she is standing up and fooling around
during lunch just like his brother, sometimes they end up playing running around the table!!!! And I can't ignore, and LM is looking at me like saying «are you going to do something mom??»