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Hi! I’m Lisa Krone and I am here with Best Epicurean on behalf of expertvillage.com and
I am going to talk to you about keeping children in their seats. This is my son Scott and my
daughter Kyle and obviously at this age, I don’t have too much trouble keeping them
in their seats while there is food on the table; otherwise they are out the door. When
they were little, people used to ask me all the time you take your children to 5 star
restaurants. How do you do that? How do you keep them in their seats? First of all number
1, if there is food in front of them that wasn’t a problem. But it did take time to
get the food there but I carried some handy dandy stuff with me that worked fantastic
with the kids. First of all, if I am carrying a diaper bag and I am lugging all that stuff
with me and I have a baby because he was a baby at the time and she was a toddler, I
always carried a pad of paper, as you can see this was one pre-scribbled because baby
had been using this and this cute neat art set; you can buy at any mass market or store,
it comes with crayons, markers, oil pastel crayons and paint and you can carry like a
little cup or get a little paper cut from the waitress at the restaurant, pull this
out, dip it in the water and your child can entertain themselves at least for a little
while during the time you are waiting for them to have food. The other thing you do
is if you have a baby, I recommend bringing some Cheerios with you and even though Scott
here is not a baby, I would always put those in front of him, especially because he was
hungry all the time and he hasn’t changed too much, and he would stuff his face with
those during the whole time while we were waiting for our meal. The other thing you
can do is you can carry some sort of cracker and Cheerio with you and you can work with
your toddler on building little tiny cracker and cereal castles. This was something that
I would teach with my child and what they would do is see how high and I would have
a whole stack of crackers with me and a whole stack of Cheerios and they would spend all
their time building castles. Here, do you want to build a castle for me? We would see
how high we would get it until it knocked itself over and that was always a lot of fun
for toddlers and elementary school kids and then sometimes as they were getting a little
older, they would start building cracker and Cheerio cities and it was really neat, so
while I had one busy crayoning, the other one would be busy building something. Now
if all else fails and your baby doesn’t want Cheerios and doesn’t want the bottle
and doesn’t want to be breast fed or anything like that, my number one weapon was the spoon.
Baby’s love spoons; they can stick it in their face, they can hit themselves in their
head and there is not much they can do to hurt themselves. The worst thing that is going
to happen is they are going to throw it on the floor and you just pick it up and that
was how I kept my kids in their seat during any meal at any restaurant we went too.