My daddy took the approach of, if you don't eat it at dinner then it's the next day's breakfast....cold. I learned pretty quickly to hold my nose and eat what it was I didn't like, first, to get it out of the way. lol
That is the correct way to feed your kids. Nobody is born liking broccoli or carrots.. you get forced to eat em and learn to like them. Kids who's parents just let them live on processed meat and haribo are the ones who go on reality TV shows claiming they've got no idea why their kids got fat!
and i took the approach of eating whilst they slept then saying no thanks again the next morning. you just suck at being a rebel maybe your parents are not any better.
I was in a restaurant recently where a kid refused to sit and eat his full roast dinner so the parent got him pudding instead. I just could not believe it.
Russell: I love you videos, and I agree with most of what you say in them, and this is no exception. When I was a kid we ate what we were given or starve. Such a simple system that the modern parent has all but forgotten. As for the high chair, have you noticed the original designs had straps in them; almost like the designers knew kids wouldn't sit still in them unless they were buckled in. Funny dat, innit.
Unless a child has a legitimate food allergy, I agree. Sadly, in today's society, if a child goes without a meal, people start crying 'abuse' or 'neglect', but that's a whole other can of worms.
Yup! My parents were "that's is, eat it or go to bed". So I learned to eat it, and put raw tomato in my mouth, hold my breath, go to the toilet and spit it out....flush! Along the way I learned to establish a considerable pallet, which is the whole fucking point of making kids eat stuff even if they don't want to, so they don't embarrass the fuck out of themselves when they go to a friend's house, or a restaurant, and won't eat anything served up to them.
Tbh some kids just struggle to eat certain foods like for me it was so bad that I knew it was irrational, I’d want to eat the food and yet the process of actually doing so made me feel sick. No amount of starving or forcing me would have changed that, I wanted to eat it I just somehow couldn’t. It’s not that hard though to have healthy meals which kids will eat (there’s a whole fussy eaters recipe book if you’re stuck for ideas) but which adults will also enjoy. I think giving kids unhealthy shit just because they won’t eat what you’d normally make is a bit of a cop out. Try some different but equally nutritious meals the whole family can enjoy rather than giving up, or at least get some vitamin tablets or even fruit juice to ensure they get decent nutrition. It’s not that hard and I wish my parents did that for me.
I agree with you on this. As a baby my kid would sit in the high chair and eat anything, even things like smoked mackerel. Got to age 2 & I’m not sure if it’s more about how things look and feel than how they taste, but she’s now so fussy & has quite a limited diet, although I do try to introduce other foods to try. But the limited diet consists of a lot of different veg, tuna, sausages, pasta & lime and coriander rice, sometimes curry. Ive not listed all she eats & it’s getting a bit better as she’s getting older, but still tricky.
Absolutely nails it every time. So glad to see a bit more Russell these days. First time I saw him was during his live performance of "Smokescreens and Castles" which to this day, is still one of the best stand up sets I've ever seen 👏
This is so true. When we were all kids this method was just the norm - you eat your dinner or you don't eat, there's fuck all else. It was a simpler time.
how can he have so little amount ov subscribers n views ???? hes one ov the funniest people on the planet ,comedy genius ! PLEASE keep these vids comin Russ ,we fuckin luv em !!
The food companies must have figured out some kind of digestive biology that is specific to kids. How did I eat those McDonalds? - these days I'd rather have a xenomorph busting out of my chest than try and break down a happy meal in my guts.
My mom had a simple rule when it came to new foods. Try it once. If you don't like it, you don't have to finish it, but she wasn't making a separate dinner. That's how I found out that I hated canned spinach, but liked it fresh. Still hate brussel sprouts, no matter how they're prepared.
Some parents forget that the human bodies can last sometime without food. We tried ourselves like algorithms that we MUST eat 3 meals a day etc. Short term, if the kids skip a meal because they're fussy, then don't force them to eat.
Well said Russ, as usual, spot on. If your hungry everything tastes good. Killing your kids through obesity is not good parenting, if it's to much work to raise em don't have em
Im an American and My parents where eat ur or go hungry! There's starving kids in Aferica that would be grateful, my parents where baby boomers so their values and discipline was different to now and I'm glad cuz I see the exact modern day eating habits that Russ is saying from my little Nephew cuz my brother and sisters dont want to feight with the kids, their too exhausted and their kids are super picky! But with me growing up I learned fast!
I was that awkward kid (aged 7) who refused to eat anything from an animal, so one meal for 6 and one meal for me, 49 years later still not eating anything from an animal, if only we had haribo back then...
Two sides to any story. My parents forced me and my brother to eat some grey, vile disaster called "Sheep in Cabbage": We held out and went to bed hungry. And proud of it. The next morning we were not served "parents' revenge on soggy rye", we got the diabetes stuff, yay! Crying through the night works!
Am I the only one that knows a lot of picky eaters that like healthy foods? A lot of the things I didn't like when I was little turned out to be bad for me. I'm from the Southern United States and it took me years to find out that I didn't like cooked vegetables because people put sugar in them. If the little ones like raw fruits and vegetables the "eat what I cooked" doesn't work that well. Not mad only sharing.
people put sugar in vegetables ? I heard that boiling veg takes out most of the nutrients and sweetens it (I always steam mine) but they put sugar in fresh veg straight off the shelf ? if so that's horrible !
Haha I only offer healthy food and nothing else and I still have one child that eats anything and the other one starves herself even though she isn't the skinniest one. it's not always about what you offer them, sometimes they really are just stubborn
Spot-on Russell! My mum used exactly this approach - no sanctions or shouting, just calmly said this is all there was for supper, and if I didn't eat it I could go without. Why is this very basic method not used anymore?
I kind of wish my parents had tried your mum's method more forcefully. I'm 17 and I eat no fruit or vegetables and my diet is so limited. Somehow I've been blessed with a skinny body, teeth with no fillings, and seemingly no health issues. But I wish I could go into any restaurant not being worried if they'll have something I'll eat or to be able to look at a menu and only have a choice of about five things. Even tried hypnotherapy, did nothing...
Oi what’s wrong with ice lollies? I’m using your mums system, but my kid already eats everything.. including lashings of haribo on a Friday and Saturday. 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah, my parents punished me and let me go hungry if I didn't like what I was given... I ended up severely malnourished, and even the doctors had to acknowledge that it wasn't working. Unfortunately given the state of mental health treatment in the UK, especially in 2005, that's where the doctors just gave up, so I'm still incredibly selective on what I eat to this day
Love this and more people need to hear this i went out to a resuraunt with my then 2 year old sitting there nicely eating dinner while there was 4 little kids running about the place with no visible parent around and this little fucker came up to us trying to nick chips off my plate like what the actual fuck. But no doubt if i would have shouted at that kid some angry parent would of magicaly turned up to tell me off
Not all children are fussy eaters. Some have eating disorders which they cannot help having. Eating disorders are mental health issues so maybe the child is trying their best but they are afraid of the food due to the eating disorder they may have.
Let's talk broccoli...daughter wouldn't touch it fro 1-4(would even throw it in the bin..caught her once, tricky little beggar). 4-16 years of age...."DAD...is there any broccoli left over?" Their tastes change....happens to us all.
Same here. The first time my mom gave me carrot baby food, I spit it out in her face. I just couldn't even stand the smell of them, raw or cooked. By middle school I started to like them for some reason. Sometimes kids need a little time to come around to liking something. Keep giving them stuff they say they hate, and they might surprise you one day.
Funny how my kid isn't a fussy eater because he knows there's nothing else. No shouting. You can eat or go hungry. Then again we're kinda poor so not wasting money on processed crap, also not raising my kid to think he's the centre of the known universe either.
Just wait Russell. I said the same thing, then you have kids. Do you remember how depressed you was, sitting there retching on 3 hour old cold carrots, "you don't get down until there are eaten", every day until you're 16. Wait until Mina is 4 and hasn't eaten for 3 days on your tried and tested 70's method. Then we'll welcome you in with open arms to pat you on the back to say, mate you tried.
Bullshit. The vast majority of things we don't eat is a case of familiarity. Multiple experiments have shown that nearly every food can be made an acquired taste simply by eating it on more than ten occasions. In the children raising arms race it really is a case of who blinks first. And if you've overly indulged your children and not made sure they understand who's in charge, there's no wonder they've run rings around you.
I have never meet as many fussy eater (adults and children ) as I did in Britain. Sorry for being judgemental but it's called parenting. You know they need veg they say 'no' so you explain or trick them. But it takes time and effort but as a parent you don't give up. Besides those parents often have unhealthy eating habits and the kids are just copying...anyway eat carrots
"Here's your dinner there's fuck all else" 😂😂😂😂😂
Kaz Brown 🤣🤣🤣
Oh Russell, you're hilarious and spot on once again 'the high chair appeared to be burning Timothy's back' 😅😅😅😘
My parent's approach was "eat it or starve."
How have I only just found your you tube channel. I am crying watching this 😂😂 you are spot on 👍
My daddy took the approach of, if you don't eat it at dinner then it's the next day's breakfast....cold. I learned pretty quickly to hold my nose and eat what it was I didn't like, first, to get it out of the way. lol
kimbeaux 🤣🤣🤣 what a legend
That is the correct way to feed your kids. Nobody is born liking broccoli or carrots.. you get forced to eat em and learn to like them. Kids who's parents just let them live on processed meat and haribo are the ones who go on reality TV shows claiming they've got no idea why their kids got fat!
"...cold" hahah not even reheated!
and i took the approach of eating whilst they slept then saying no thanks again the next morning.
you just suck at being a rebel maybe your parents are not any better.
Soooo spot on. You eat, what you've been given. Or else go hungry. Your analogy has left me laughing so much that my stomach hurts. :))
Your parenting-related videos are 100% my favourite😂😂
I was in a restaurant recently where a kid refused to sit and eat his full roast dinner so the parent got him pudding instead. I just could not believe it.
Russell: I love you videos, and I agree with most of what you say in them, and this is no exception. When I was a kid we ate what we were given or starve. Such a simple system that the modern parent has all but forgotten. As for the high chair, have you noticed the original designs had straps in them; almost like the designers knew kids wouldn't sit still in them unless they were buckled in. Funny dat, innit.
Unless a child has a legitimate food allergy, I agree. Sadly, in today's society, if a child goes without a meal, people start crying 'abuse' or 'neglect', but that's a whole other can of worms.
Where can I get a cancery frozen death juice lolly?
Hazza 😂🤣😂🤣
Sadly, Just about anywhere!!
I always got told "Shut up, you'll eat what you're given!". Didn't do me any harm, and I learnt to eat anything. I'm currently eating a sock.
Love it nearly died laughing.
Love your video comedy sketches. Feel like this one needs to be shared over and over again! XD
Yup! My parents were "that's is, eat it or go to bed". So I learned to eat it, and put raw tomato in my mouth, hold my breath, go to the toilet and spit it out....flush!
Along the way I learned to establish a considerable pallet, which is the whole fucking point of making kids eat stuff even if they don't want to, so they don't embarrass the fuck out of themselves when they go to a friend's house, or a restaurant, and won't eat anything served up to them.
Completely agree, oh my God. Some children are so annoying.
Tbh some kids just struggle to eat certain foods like for me it was so bad that I knew it was irrational, I’d want to eat the food and yet the process of actually doing so made me feel sick. No amount of starving or forcing me would have changed that, I wanted to eat it I just somehow couldn’t. It’s not that hard though to have healthy meals which kids will eat (there’s a whole fussy eaters recipe book if you’re stuck for ideas) but which adults will also enjoy. I think giving kids unhealthy shit just because they won’t eat what you’d normally make is a bit of a cop out. Try some different but equally nutritious meals the whole family can enjoy rather than giving up, or at least get some vitamin tablets or even fruit juice to ensure they get decent nutrition. It’s not that hard and I wish my parents did that for me.
So true
I agree with you on this. As a baby my kid would sit in the high chair and eat anything, even things like smoked mackerel. Got to age 2 & I’m not sure if it’s more about how things look and feel than how they taste, but she’s now so fussy & has quite a limited diet, although I do try to introduce other foods to try. But the limited diet consists of a lot of different veg, tuna, sausages, pasta & lime and coriander rice, sometimes curry. Ive not listed all she eats & it’s getting a bit better as she’s getting older, but still tricky.
I was not allowed outside or allowed to leave the table until I ate my dinner. That was back when there was such a thing as actual parenting.
Russell you are actually hilarious and stick with the times great comedian and have a constant material only the best do that fair play
Absolutely nails it every time. So glad to see a bit more Russell these days. First time I saw him was during his live performance of "Smokescreens and Castles" which to this day, is still one of the best stand up sets I've ever seen 👏
This is so true. When we were all kids this method was just the norm - you eat your dinner or you don't eat, there's fuck all else. It was a simpler time.
hilarious 😂 simply hilarious and true👀😂
how can he have so little amount ov subscribers n views ???? hes one ov the funniest people on the planet ,comedy genius !
PLEASE keep these vids comin Russ ,we fuckin luv em !!
Fabulous so true, children need boundries god bless
Absolutely hilarious 😂
The food companies must have figured out some kind of digestive biology that is specific to kids. How did I eat those McDonalds? - these days I'd rather have a xenomorph busting out of my chest than try and break down a happy meal in my guts.
Agreed
the return of 'ooverrr va'cuummm OH GOSH I laughed hard at this!
This makes me laugh every time I watch it
I bloody well love you Russell 😆😂
I was told, eat it or don’t eat at all.
😂😂😂😊 ohhh this made me literally L.O.L
Cancery frozen death juice lollies 😂 do certain lollies induce cancer?
My mom had a simple rule when it came to new foods. Try it once. If you don't like it, you don't have to finish it, but she wasn't making a separate dinner. That's how I found out that I hated canned spinach, but liked it fresh. Still hate brussel sprouts, no matter how they're prepared.
Some parents forget that the human bodies can last sometime without food. We tried ourselves like algorithms that we MUST eat 3 meals a day etc.
Short term, if the kids skip a meal because they're fussy, then don't force them to eat.
Well said Russ, as usual, spot on. If your hungry everything tastes good. Killing your kids through obesity is not good
parenting, if it's to much work to raise em don't have em
Im an American and My parents where eat ur or go hungry! There's starving kids in Aferica that would be grateful, my parents where baby boomers so their values and discipline was different to now and I'm glad cuz I see the exact modern day eating habits that Russ is saying from my little Nephew cuz my brother and sisters dont want to feight with the kids, their too exhausted and their kids are super picky! But with me growing up I learned fast!
I was that awkward kid (aged 7) who refused to eat anything from an animal, so one meal for 6 and one meal for me, 49 years later still not eating anything from an animal, if only we had haribo back then...
I don't know what happen to kids nowadays
When I was little it's either eat dinner or go to bed without. Or worse the wooden spoon from the drawer
😂😂😂the wooden spoon, that was my dad's chosen instrument of encouragement too.
my mam and dad did the same, u didnt eat it for lunch you got it warmed back up for tea, you soon get hungry and eat what u are given
Love u Russell .can u do ur thing outside different setting. It makes me claustrophobic to see you in ur small british flats.😁😊 xx
MultiKarola24 lol ! I was thinking the same thing !!!
Spot on! Oh I’m so laughing at these videos. I’ve only just come across them.
Excellent advice. I showed this to the wife..
Word, Russell, word✌✌✌
This is everything I have ever needed to see! 😂😂😂😂😂💋
Hillarious - Human truths - So true about those BOUNDERIES!
You are so right, love yer man
Haha so true worked in restaurants and saw parents obeying their children lol
Two sides to any story. My parents forced me and my brother to eat some grey, vile disaster called "Sheep in Cabbage": We held out and went to bed hungry. And proud of it. The next morning we were not served "parents' revenge on soggy rye", we got the diabetes stuff, yay! Crying through the night works!
Couldn’t agree more
Mow he had a fabulous air conditioning unit 😎
Russell for prime minister 😎
Am I the only one that knows a lot of picky eaters that like healthy foods? A lot of the things I didn't like when I was little turned out to be bad for me. I'm from the Southern United States and it took me years to find out that I didn't like cooked vegetables because people put sugar in them. If the little ones like raw fruits and vegetables the "eat what I cooked" doesn't work that well. Not mad only sharing.
people put sugar in vegetables ? I heard that boiling veg takes out most of the nutrients and sweetens it (I always steam mine) but they put sugar in fresh veg straight off the shelf ? if so that's horrible !
YOU ARE SO FUNNY 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haha I only offer healthy food and nothing else and I still have one child that eats anything and the other one starves herself even though she isn't the skinniest one. it's not always about what you offer them, sometimes they really are just stubborn
Some parents have Aliens
you should do "kanening; people who don't actually have kids and have no idea"
Russell Kane and Theresa May
This is sooo bloody true! 😂
Completely agree 100%
Spot-on Russell! My mum used exactly this approach - no sanctions or shouting, just calmly said this is all there was for supper, and if I didn't eat it I could go without.
Why is this very basic method not used anymore?
Me in two words
I kind of wish my parents had tried your mum's method more forcefully. I'm 17 and I eat no fruit or vegetables and my diet is so limited. Somehow I've been blessed with a skinny body, teeth with no fillings, and seemingly no health issues. But I wish I could go into any restaurant not being worried if they'll have something I'll eat or to be able to look at a menu and only have a choice of about five things. Even tried hypnotherapy, did nothing...
Spot on sir!
😂Mega!🤣
😂😂😂 yeh , sorry it's the parents.
Agree absolutely. But it's fucking absurd that parents get put in prison for this under child neglect and abuse.
2 kids in....eat what's for dinner.. sprouts chicken rocket get it down ya
Fuck all else 😂😂😂😂😂😂. Thats what me and my brother got from me dad 👍😎
Oi what’s wrong with ice lollies? I’m using your mums system, but my kid already eats everything.. including lashings of haribo on a Friday and Saturday. 🤷🏻♀️
This is so true! Lol!
Yeah, my parents punished me and let me go hungry if I didn't like what I was given... I ended up severely malnourished, and even the doctors had to acknowledge that it wasn't working. Unfortunately given the state of mental health treatment in the UK, especially in 2005, that's where the doctors just gave up, so I'm still incredibly selective on what I eat to this day
😂 yes
Love this and more people need to hear this i went out to a resuraunt with my then 2 year old sitting there nicely eating dinner while there was 4 little kids running about the place with no visible parent around and this little fucker came up to us trying to nick chips off my plate like what the actual fuck. But no doubt if i would have shouted at that kid some angry parent would of magicaly turned up to tell me off
Ah arfid with my son, would rather starve than eat, so hes on dietician shakes..
who disliked this!!!??????
Not all children are fussy eaters. Some have eating disorders which they cannot help having. Eating disorders are mental health issues so maybe the child is trying their best but they are afraid of the food due to the eating disorder they may have.
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I love you
Russell, fite me
Let's talk broccoli...daughter wouldn't touch it fro 1-4(would even throw it in the bin..caught her once, tricky little beggar).
4-16 years of age...."DAD...is there any broccoli left over?"
Their tastes change....happens to us all.
Same here. The first time my mom gave me carrot baby food, I spit it out in her face. I just couldn't even stand the smell of them, raw or cooked. By middle school I started to like them for some reason. Sometimes kids need a little time to come around to liking something. Keep giving them stuff they say they hate, and they might surprise you one day.
After listening to this bloke you will just know he is pals with likes of james 'o brien
Funny how my kid isn't a fussy eater because he knows there's nothing else. No shouting. You can eat or go hungry. Then again we're kinda poor so not wasting money on processed crap, also not raising my kid to think he's the centre of the known universe either.
Find another restaurant is my mums fav comment
Just wait Russell. I said the same thing, then you have kids. Do you remember how depressed you was, sitting there retching on 3 hour old cold carrots, "you don't get down until there are eaten", every day until you're 16. Wait until Mina is 4 and hasn't eaten for 3 days on your tried and tested 70's method. Then we'll welcome you in with open arms to pat you on the back to say, mate you tried.
Bullshit. The vast majority of things we don't eat is a case of familiarity. Multiple experiments have shown that nearly every food can be made an acquired taste simply by eating it on more than ten occasions. In the children raising arms race it really is a case of who blinks first. And if you've overly indulged your children and not made sure they understand who's in charge, there's no wonder they've run rings around you.
First #geek
I have never meet as many fussy eater (adults and children ) as I did in Britain. Sorry for being judgemental but it's called parenting. You know they need veg they say 'no' so you explain or trick them. But it takes time and effort but as a parent you don't give up. Besides those parents often have unhealthy eating habits and the kids are just copying...anyway eat carrots