Stainless Steel Cooking » Knife Cutlery http://www.stainless-steel-cooking.com/blog Your Gourment Stainless Steel Cooking Shop Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:55:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 What age do people think it is OK for a child to eat "properly" with a knife and fork? http://www.stainless-steel-cooking.com/blog/what-age-do-people-think-it-is-ok-for-a-child-to-eat-properly-with-a-knife-and-fork http://www.stainless-steel-cooking.com/blog/what-age-do-people-think-it-is-ok-for-a-child-to-eat-properly-with-a-knife-and-fork#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:55:08 +0000 Keith Crovatt http://www.stainless-steel-cooking.com/blog/what-age-do-people-think-it-is-ok-for-a-child-to-eat-properly-with-a-knife-and-fork hey guys

Ok, my wife had an arguement with someone recently about what age a child should eat "properly" with a knife and fork.

This person (who won’t be described) had a go at my wife, saying that our daughter who isn’t even 4 was a disgrace because she still hadn’t quite properly learned to eat with a knife and fork, and that the child HAD to eat with their knife and forks in certain hands. Now my wife argued back that she wasn’t even 4 and that what did it matter what hands they used, e.t.c? Anyway the arguement went on about parenting styles and the like, and how we MUST be bad parents because she wasn’t eating with a knife and fork permanently.

So when do other parents think it is acceptable to make a child eat "permanently" with a knife and fork during dinner, and should you insist on specific hands to holding the cutlery, or (as I feel to be the case) let the child make their mind up on which hands they want to use?

Sorry for being so vague about it all :(

Toodles
Thanks everyone for your comments so far.

Truth be told I’d say our daughter was pretty damn happy ;) and that we love her a lot. It doesn’t matter to us normally whether she uses a fork or her hands, so long as she eats. We’ll teach her about the knife and fork when she’s more able and older.

But it did upset my wife with the arguement then to add to that our daughter got really anxious at dinner time last night and kept getting stressed she had to eat with the knife and fork properly, which really upset my wife and annoyed me that a child who isn’t even 4 should feel that kind of pressure. As far as I’m concerned that kind of thing just isn’t on. As it has been said, she is just a child afterall.

Cheers everyone ;)

mines nearly 3 and has a knife fork and spoon at the table, can use the fork and spoon okay but not so good with knife, she likes to use her hands but we try to encourage using her fork but make no big deal of it if she doesnt, it would just make meal times stressful, we should just be grateful that they eat well and others should keep their noses out! everyones entitled to an opinion but if i were you i would just regard it as that and forget it. If your kids happy and trying to use them, hey who cares!

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PDawg, what the hell is your problem? I am a Brit, but I don’t "poo-poo such affectations", I accept and am interested in their culture. You shouldn’t look down on someone just because they do things differently to you, that’s very childish.

I am a lefty so my answer is qualified. Knife on left hand and fork on right hand. To hell with the stupid and draconian old-fashioned rule- knife on right hand and fork on left. People should be able to hold their utensils with any hand they feel comfortable with.

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Do you eat food using cutlery or do* you use your fingers?

sorry for the typo * do*

Yes, I always use cutlery except when eating finger food.

knife- right hand
fork -left hand

My left hand is retarded, I’d probably end up stabbing myself if I hold a knife in it.

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