Originally Posted by hwichlaz:
So I’d dice of soft things for him and put them on his tray to play with while he’s waiting for bites from you. Go help the other kids with something between bites so that he doesn’t have anything to do, but mess around with the little bits of food on his tray.
This is what I would do. I start babies on soft, diced, self feed foods around 10mo or so and by the time they are 1yo are eating/mostly feeding themselves table food cut in appropriate sizes. I also give them a spoon to "use".