I was quite optimistic about my daughter’s eating habits when at one year old she was fond of gnawing on pickles, sucking the salad dressing off of my caesar salad, and slurping down her carrot soup. She still likes some healthy food, but somewhere between 1 and 2, she stopped eating any vegetables except tomato sauce.
Toddler meets yogurt with blueberries
It wasn’t until my daughter was about a year old that I formed any opinion about bibs and their usefulness. I used to think that the one that best matched her outfit was the one for the job.
About the same time that my daughter was able to walk a bit, I was afraid that she had lost her appetite. Then I tried letting her hold the spoon, and I realized that she wanted to feed herself. She also decided she didn’t want to wear her bibs anymore, and she would throw any bib she could rip off onto the floor. I’d received about 20 bibs as gifts by that time, and all but one fastened with Velcro which she could fling off with spectacular results.
When I started to notice tubs of stained bibs and clothes soaking all over my kitchen, and that my stress level would jump if I opened up her bib drawer to find that she was out of clean bibs, I realized that I was going about this the wrong way.
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