Siblings using the same spoon and cup at the same time

Not worth getting your knickers in a knot over!

Surely a parent is there when they are eating and can see exactly how much each child has eaten! I love the posters thinking that if the children share cutlery at home they will never learn how to eat in public

sometimes the younger child eats better because they want to do what the older one does so drinking from the same cup or using the same cutlery is normal, my son was a picky eater until he started sitting at the table with his dad and then he wanted to try the same food his dad had, i think this is normal and it is how kids learn, as for germs they would pass them back and forth as they play or cuddle, no point in an argument, just because you would not do it does not mean it is wrong, let your daughter parent the way she wants, in the end it is nothing to do with you.

Perhaps buy them something like these each!
www.prezzybox.com/personalised-teddy-cutlery-set.aspx?glcountry=GB&gclid=Cj0KCQjwl_SHBhCQARIsAFIFRVU0iKLDvEq8qcx0wIQr-4w7KAvKdhdMWcTvKDciZyFctROlMaHKqI4aAgzsEALw_wcB
Other makes, retailers and prices available.

Or these for the baby:
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That will be called out as passive aggressive by the newcomers from Mumsnet ???

Or just ?

Callistemon

Fingers were invented before forks.

That’s what I tell him indoors.?

Callistemon

It seems odd to me because you wouldn't be able to judge how much food each child was eating.
Surely the little one is in a high chair?

The germs issue is not concerning because they'll pass germs between themselves anyway.

I wonder why they can’t have a spoon each? Seems a bit odd.
Ours as grandparents not to wonder why though.

If I'd given mine one bowl of food and one spoon they'd have been scrapping and the dog would have eaten most of the food from the floor ?

Or DS would have scoffed it all before you could say Jack Robinson.

I have read that apparently children wanting to eat from a parent's plate is a safety adaptation. If mum and dad are eating it, it must be safe, and therefore good to eat! Really, there are far more serious things to worry about.

Back in the Middle Ages, I believe people commonly shared a "plate" (more commonly a trencher, a large piece of stale bread that served as a plate) and a cup between two people at a meal.