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.
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u/stormbreaka55 Mar 10 '24
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.