As individuals age from infancy to adulthood, their motor coordination improves, leading to more precise movements, such as eating with utensils.

“over time they get better at moving the utensil to their mouth such that hopefully by about F age five or six they are eating you know in a relatively cleaner way and hopefully by time they're 10 or 11 or 12 they're getting the food into their mouth and not all over their face”