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Well Brie continues with her behaviors during mealtimes. She has now taken to throwing everything on the floor. We will tell her no sternly, she will cry and then she will do it again. It is a vicious cycle. After two weeks of this we have seen no improvement so we are changing tactics. We are going to try and ignore the behavior. If she throws something on the floor she does not get it back. Once she throws three things in a row on the floor she is done. We will take her out of the highchair and put her somewhere safe and continue with her dinner. This will upset her of course, but after she calms down she will rejoin us at the table. Tonight was the first night we tried it. She actually got to stay at the table and ate a few bites of chicken fingers and french fries. She of course wore more then she actually got into her, but she tried.

After spending some time with Nancy today we are going to stick to foods we know she enjoys and work on the behaviors. Nancy is also going to talk to a behaviorist to seek some more advise on how to deal with these behaviors.