#AskTheExpert How to make my son to eat himself ? He will eat only his favourite food himself. Remaining all I have to feed him. Doctor please help me in this matter.

A. Here are three ways to offer finger foods (you don't have to move through these in a progression): you pinch the food and let baby bring your fingers to her mouth you hold the piece of food and let baby grasp from your fingers - this often elicits a pincer grasp before baby uses this fine motor skill to get food from a flat surface place a bite or two on a surface in front of baby, for independent attempts Watch as, over the course of weeks and months, your baby moves from a raking grasp eating food from the middle of her palm to a raking grasp eating food from the palm near her index finger and thumb (as in this video) to using a pincer grasp. Sometimes there is an additional pinch grasp just before a true pincer appears when baby uses her thumb against the side of her index finger - the way you or I would pinch a key to turn it.