Kicking and Screaming

So, Nathan used to always be a great eater and behaved so well in the high chair....he never complained. All of a sudden this past Saturday he decides he hates the high chair and refuses to sit in it (the picture doesn't show him screaming and crying, but he sure doesn't want to sit in that chair!). It's been a struggle the past few days as he stiffens his legs and cries as we try to put him in. After almost pulling out our hairs, I decided to read up on it and get some help. I always said I wanted to raise our kids to eat only in the kitchen, not while wandering around the house. Well, we realized that we at times let him eat in front of the TV or sit on the sofa as it was the easy thing to do (I'm such a bad mother). Now we have to reverse what we did. One thing Dan did today and that we noticed recently is that he wants choices of food and he wants to feed himself now. He was perfectly happy being a "baby" while we feed him solids and always ate what we gave him, but now all of a sudden he wants to be independent (he always drank by himself since he was about 11 months). So, even though it's messy and he wants to "comb" his hair with the spoon, we're allowing him to feed himself more now (which we should have done months ago). Nobody ever did say raising a child would be easy!!