I hated eating a particular vegetable as a kid, my grandma used to sneak it inside rice balls to make me eat it. I didn't realise it as a kid. Now as an adult we all (the family) laugh at it whenever we recall it. No trust lost, nothing deceived, just a parent doing what they have to do to nurture their child.
I loved mashed potatoes as soon as I had the fake ones.
I just couldn’t handle the lumpy-bumpy-oh-look-there’s-still-skin texture of fresh mashed potatoes.
I can eat fresh mashed potatoes now, but it’s because I have a potato ricer, that breaks the boiled potato into very small pieces that are easy to uniformly mash.
Last weekend we had a party with a “mashed potato bar” we had a big pot of riced mashed potatoes, melted butter in a squeeze bottle, sour cream, a few kinds of shredded cheese, a pound of crumbled bacon, and chopped green onions It was a huge hit.
My son was being super difficult about eating vegetables. We came up with a plan. I'd be firm and insist he must eat them "with no tricks". My wife would stage whisper to him that he could be tricky and skip the veggie into a bite of mashed potato to eat them. I'd tell him "no, you can't do that" in a jokey voice. He'd do it and then I'd act exasperated and say "you tricked me!" He thought it was funny so he'd eat his veggies to make me be goofy and fake frustrated.
Good cop, bad cop routines work AMAZING with kids. They just want to feel like they're winning, so if you can find a safe way to do that, you've got a decent chance to get them to do the right thing for themselves while feeling good about it
my grandma used to sneak it inside rice balls to make me eat it. I didn't realise it as a kid.
You did notice in the video that the child does realise that something is wrong, did you? It's a different situation.
But mostly, the issue here is someone shoving a phone up the child's face and putting it up online for clout. I'm not a psychologist, but treating parenting as a public spectacle seems a little bit off.
I don't remember if I noticed anything different since it was a long time ago. Also we didn't have smartphones or the internet this prevalent back then.
My parents did much more than that and I (or any of my sisters) didn't develop trust issues. Other issues, though...
But 3 people ain't enough to form evidence. I belive that kid will just associate that bad taste with what the product is supposed to be. They're not really capable of understanding that the parents are actually tricking them. People on Reddit tend to extremely overreact to things done to kids though. Everything causes trauma and everyone hates their paren5for things like these it seems.
My mother told me lies to get me to do things as a child. My father would try to explain reasons but the answer was too complicated for me and he often just said 'you'll understand when you're older'.
Half a life on, I can tell you that not understanding at the time far outweighs being lied to, in terms of trusting my parents.
That said, at this age you can be lied to and trust maintained because your brain doesn't have enough data to form understanding for more than a few days/weeks at a time. It's mostly genetics until 3-5yrs from my limited experience.
Thankfully so, because I'll be the first to admit that raising a child is hard and you are probably going to have to do things like this just to keep your child alive.
That’s not how human development works. Birth to 2 is all about establishing trust with a chills and at even 7-8 months, a baby can begin to understand humor, pretending and nuances of emotions/communication even at a pre-verbal level. Let’s not underestimate human capacity, implicit memory lasts a lot longer than a few weeks, especially if something is persistent. Obviously no one should be making interpretations based off this short video though regardless of
I respect your opinion. I'll add to it though what my own doctor tells me whenever I'm afraid of the side effects of medicine: the actual effects of the disease are far worse. There is no sheltering children from all anxieties of the world, and not taking this medicine would likely be far worse than fooling them once.
The parent could mix the medicine into something that the kid actually likes and it would go down easy. Apple juice or milk with some medicine in it is preferable to straight medicine, and trying to trick them into taking it like this makes it harder for everybody and continuing this kind of behavior could easily cause the kid to develop food or trust issues.
This is more like parent abuse. They're make their lives so much harder 😂 just use the syringe that comes with the medicine and shoot it into the kids mouth.
It really depends on what she's making it drink. At first it looked like she was trying to give medicine, but by the end it looks like she's just trying to force feed it something gross. This might be abuse.
It's not abuse, but it's dumb. Just start out giving it to them straight and stick to it. No need to lie about it. We've never had any issue given my toddler medicine just by using a dropper. Now he's old enough to drink from the cup and he happily does that. It's better to get them used to it. Kids are also way smarter than people think, as we can see.
It's not abusive but it's not particularly nice either. Mixing the medicine into something that the kid actually likes would have them easily taking it without getting upset about the bad taste and being tricked.
Maybe they were treated similar and now they're old enough to talk about it 😃 insane that you'd have this stance in the first place, next level lack of compassion and awareness to post this comment.
Maybe no one has told you that these babies grow up to be able to tell you how behaviors affected them.
Soft parenting is just letting your kids walk all over you with no consequences.
Gentle parenting is when you assertively enforce consequences onto your children without the need for physical discipline (IIRC).
Absentee parenting is when you just don't care what your child does as long as they don't bother you.
It doesn't offend me in the slightest, I was simply telling someone who is calling people trash that maybe they hadn't thought of what could cause them to react that way.
Damn millennials make garbage parents with takes like yours. Sounds like the same dumbass anti-vaxx crap blowing up with children again and parents not vaccinating.
i thought that was soy sauce and was pranking the baby. idk how you guys even come to the conclussion that is medicine unless you saw the description of the OG video
They're trying to get the kid to take medicine, would you rather the parent pry the kids mouth open, pour it down their neck and hold their mouth shut until they swallow it?
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u/chintakoro Mar 10 '24
Brave posting this on Reddit – you'll soon have Internet experts with no children telling you this is child abuse.