I'm new here but Ashy has been BLW since 7months old and at 10months old was using a full set of cutlery, now at 18months old she is proficient with spoon and fork and uses her knife to butter bread and cut up softer foods, i guess she really likes to copy mummy and daddy. I'm suprised as it seems even by BLW standards this is early. She was using a spoon at 7months old and pretty much had it sussed by the time she hit 10 months. i got several sets of MINI cutlery from a 99p store i think they have garfield on them and they come in Ashy's favourite colour. Someone meantioned the possibility that it could go in their eyes which reminded me of a lady who tryed to pry a screwdriver away from my daughter because-"as a professional in the childcare industry" she could see it going straight into the eye- i guess my daughter doesn't care much for putting things into her eyes as it has never been an issue. needless to say she was given the screwdriver right back after the lady walked away and she continued to help her daddy fix his boat