Some kids look back fondly on the “The airplane goes into the hangar” days of spoon feeding. Others see it as an embarrassing proof that they we’re not always so ahead-of-the-game of their parents. Regardless, they almost all go through the phase between spoon feeding and using real place settings, a phase in which they spend more time mixing, prodding, poking, and molding their meals than they do actually eating. Rather than try to contain that mess on tiny plastic plates or trying to clean unwieldy highchair trays, it’s worth checking out the wide array of silicone mats and trays designed to keep your child’s mealtime mess containable.
