Keeping older infants and young toddlers neat and clean during meals and snacks is an exercise in futility. It is important for them to touch and explore eating utensils and the food and to experiment with eating. They are learning what to do and how to do it. Learning is sometimes messy. Manners and tidiness will come later.
If you give a child a bottle to fall asleep with, fill it with plain water. Juice, milk or other drinks may lead to baby bottle tooth decay. Read more about that here.
Try to feed one infant or toddler at a time. If that is not possible, arrange seats or chairs so that they can have eye contact and interact with you and each other while you feed them. Provide toddlers with sturdy toddler-sized chairs and low tables and use this time, while they are sitting still, to talk to them, which will help them build language skills and learn to socialize.
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