Man Hits Stuffed Animal in Front of Baby
A shocking viral tendency sees parents chirapsia up stuffed animals in front of their children to go them to eat
In that location'southward nothing remotely funny about this.
Jun 27, 2019 eight:44amThe net is a keen place to find parenting hacks. For every challenge you confront on the parenting frontlines, there's someone who has been at that place before you and figured out a way to navigate it successfully.
The internet is as well a place where people practise some pretty weird stuff. Combine the two and you can find some heinously shocking content.
Recently we saw parents throwing slices of cheese at their babe's faces, and this week the winner of the 'nobody should be doing that' honour goes to the shocking viral tendency that is seeing parents beating upwardly their children's beloved stuffed toys in front of them in gild to convince fussy eaters to endeavor their dinner.
Nope. It's not a joke.
"When kids don't wanna eat... this is what you gotta practise," wrote Twitter user @rudyhernandez_ aslope a video (above) which showed him pummelling into his nephew's blimp Mickey Mouse toy.
Subsequently first offer the infant some nutrient which was refused, the video shows @rudyhernandez_ and so offering the same nutrient to Mickey Mouse. He so motions that Mickey Mouse is also refusing the food before putting downwardly the spoon and admittedly ripping into the stuffed toy with a series of airtight fist, violent punches to the face and body.
After placing Mickey back down on the table he so offers the shocked little boy the spoon again, and with a look of complete fright and trepidation the babe accepts.
The laughter emojis used in his caption indicate that this 'clever' uncle finds himself hilarious. And strangely plenty and then do some others with the content speedily going viral and other'southward jumping on board to endeavor the drastic technique themselves.
However non anybody was pleased with what they saw. Every bit more and people began sharing the post and their own videos of the disturbing tendency, many parents and social media users were left horrified, deeming it 'violent', 'icky' and 'traumatic'.
"What this human is doing to this child is mental torture. Maybe he should try, idk, parenting? Talking to the kid? Helping him understand why he needs food? Just a thought," suggested one shocked commenter.
Another added: "This exact beliefs has been proven scientifically to increase aggression in young people. We talk all the time about perpetuating a culture of violence with young people landing in jail. This is where it starts."
"This is horrible" came the stunned reply of another commenter. "Threat of violence and children'due south trauma is a real matter."
Despite the protests, more and more parents tried the technique themselves.
Peradventure most against of the follow-up videos is the female parent, Facebook user Vet Fikes who employs the same tactic before bursting into hysterical laughter at the traumatised look on her child'southward face up.
WATCH: Vet Fikes uses the bizarre treat of violence at dinner time. Story continues after video ...
In a video shared to Facebook on Tuesday, 35-twelvemonth-old mother Yvette Fikes site her fussy eater son, Tyree 'TJ' Lewis Jr. at the kitchen bench and offers him food, which he declines.
Using the idea inspired past @rudyhernandez_, she so pretends to try to feed 1 of her son's stuffed toys. Similarly the toy is subjected to hit, shaking and being slammed on the counter acme before TJ is once again offered the food.
With wait of consummate fear, the shocked kid this time accepts the nutrient. A male voice in the background declares that "it worked", which leaves Fikes in hysterics.
However, parents against the technique are fighting back. In a adamant effort at disrupting the shocking tendency, Twitter user Christopher Duett shared his own video on Sunday.
Lookout man: Dad demonstrates a calm, positive approach to getting a toddler to eat. Story continues after video ...
In the video, which Duett captioned "Hey dumb f*ers using stuffed animals to showroom negative reinforcement to get your kids to do something, watch this..." the thoughtful male parent uses a stuffed toy to convince his son to eat some nutrient ... without the violence.
Like in the other videos, Duett offers his son some food which is refused.
Adjacent, Duett is seen pretending to offering his son'southward blimp penguin toy some food, while proverb: "Penguin wants some."
"Oh, that's yummy," he says, pretending to be the voice of the stuffed animal.
Surprise, surprise ... the positive reinforcement encourages his son to effort a bite of the food that is being offered.
gaining viral attention, Duett'southward technique before long acquired it's own legion of fans.
"Wow it'due south amazing what an actress five minutes of clam, patient, positive reinforcement can do!" wrote one commenter. "And look, your kid isn't terrified and he doesn't hate you!"
Some other added: "At present this is parenting I tin go behind. I was large mad when I saw the dude getting his child to swallow out of fearfulness of being hurt similar his stuffed beast. THIS IS HOW YOU DO It!"
"My mom used to do this to me, and my dad would use penalty to enforce it an the outcomes with my relationships with them are completely different." said another. "This is crawly!! It's the right way!"
Source: https://www.nowtolove.com.au/parenting/family/parents-beating-stuffed-animals-56659
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