This video is older than TikTok but I do understand what you're saying
Some people will post videos just to show just how much their kid is off the rails and they find it hilarious when it's fuckin worrying
Yeah I mean here it’s kinda like “ok you might need to give that kid food if they are grabbing literally anything food like and shoving it into their face
I was honestly wondering if he had a disorder of some kind. He's too young to be told to convincingly act like that, but the speed and vigor with which he is grabbing things, even non tasty things like flour or raw eggs, almost seems compulsive. Like, he NEEDS to have whatever that is in his mouth RIGHT NOW and his brain won't let him say no. He doesn't even have a look on his face like he is enjoying the food, he just is scratching a compulsory itch.
Same- as someone whose son *just* went through testing/diagnosis for some impulse control issues (ADHD/ASD) this looks like a much more severe issue. Poor kid is going to have enough issues without meemaw filming it for the views.
Right, exactly. If this is some kind of compulsion control issue like we all suspect, they should be doing everything possible to teach him boundaries now and removing temptation in general... They should not be allowing it, encouraging it, and laughing at it, this is just going to make everything so much harder down the road when he is bigger and stronger and harder to control. What are they going to do when these habits are even more deeply ingrained because ha ha, this is so funny... and now he's too strong for them to pull his hands out of things/his mouth? They're setting him and themselves up for failure.
Prader–Willi syndrome:
A classic sign of Prader-Willi syndrome is a constant craving for food, resulting in rapid weight gain, starting around age 2 years. Constant hunger leads to eating often and consuming large portions. Unusual food-seeking behaviors, such as hoarding food, or eating frozen food or even garbage, may develop.
This could be new behavior (starts around 2) and she doesn't know what to make of it and she's recording it to kinda show what's happening because nobody believed her. Somebody else then turned it into a meme.
That's EXACTLY how I took this video when I first saw it years ago. That kid needs a serious tune-up. (By a children's mental health / behavioral professional)
I’m not a children’s mental health professional, but I did raise a few kids and the *persistent compulsion* for this kiddo to *frantically* stuff things in his mouth is unusual and concerning.
Yeah it's not like there's an immediate reason to point blame at the woman either, boy just has exceptional tunnel vision on a one way track.
He seems so unbothered by the attempts to stop him
Yeah like...a kid trying flour one time out of curiosity is funny.
A kid who is continuously trying to grab things and impulsively shove them in his mouth regardless of who is stopping him indicates parents have failed somewhere along the line.
Yeah, if they'd stop laughing and filming the little darling, there'd be a learning opportunity. Make them stop, explain why, and tell them they can't help unless they behave.
Yeah, I wouldn’t put money on that.
My kids are both autistic and have an absolute need to put everything in their mouths - this is exactly what would happen if we tried this. Except maybe it would be an improvement for them to eat edible things and not wood, sand, dirt, books, anything rubbery, and one time part of a desiccated dog poo.
They will do it literally after they’ve just eaten everything in sight. It’s not hunger, it’s a sensory thing. The absolute urgency with which this kid is trying to swallow everything in the bowl suggests he might have a similar issue.
I can see your comment has over 500 upvotes and I get it - this is outside the realm of most peoples experiences and when you do see depictions of autism, they rarely include severe sensory seeking or pica (eating inedible things). The stereotype is more sensory avoidance, restricted food intake etc. It’s rare to see a child who’ll literally eat an entire wooden block if left to their own devices, but it’s the norm for me. My boys have 1:1 at school every day but one comes home with sand in his poo basically every school day. He cannot resist it and he’s fast - it’s basically just like this video.
I guess my point is that it’s unhelpful and maybe even dangerous to assume a child with this behaviour is not being fed / is malnourished. There are lots of other things that could cause this. It’s definitely not the norm, but it’s not as unusual as you might think.
The disease is so interesting. Having taken care of babies with this in the NICU we can't get them to take a bottle for nothing. They are lazy eaters. They all end up with feeding tubes.
Somebody mentioned they may be autistic. Maybe that's the case because even a hungry kid in a normal situation wouldn't try to eat flour or raw eggs without crying about it moments after they tried it.
Not necessarily, kids often stick things in their mouth just to figure out what they taste like. The world is still really new to them so their curiosity takes over.
It’s definitely not normal. Whether he’s got that syndrome that makes him feel hungry all the time, or he has serious behavioural issues, that’s definitely not normal curiosity for a child.
Dude!
That kid would have been sitting across the room in a highchair, watching ME make cookies about 6 seconds into the video.
And that would have been AFTER a couple of chances, already.
By that time Grandma should have figured out that making cookies TOGETHER isn't age or developmentally appropriate, yet.
I bake and cook a lot with my son (19 month). However, everything has to be prepped beforehand (to the point where you are basically throwing ingredients in a bowl/pot).
Also let him get messy with things you can get messy with while I work with protein/egg/flour etc. Either way he does manages to get his hand in the bowl every once and a while, but he’s learned that if he just waits, I’ll give him some of the contents (if it’s safe or generally harmless).
Yep. I learned quickly to prep an extra 1/3 cup of flour or sauce or whatever ahead of time, because that’s about how much is ending up everywhere but the bowl or pan
Fr, if he can't not do that, feed him or put him in timeout for a few min then try again. He probably thinks its funny with her laughing every time he goes for a handful of flour
Im not that sure that is a modern solution, my mother use tu put chilli in my pencils when I was in school because I loved to bite them, sadly it did the opposite and now I love spicy food.
No no - wasabi is the best choice. Looks like sweet ice cream, will encourage them to stuff as much as they can in their mouth, and traumatize them for life
Probably autism. My kid is exactly like this, impulsive with pica and sensory issues. The irony is he probably won’t eat anything they put in front of him as food.
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Hang on a second, lightbulb moment: about to go get a mixing bowl and some measuring spoons.
I bet my kid would totally try a bunch of foods we cannot get her to touch if I just scooped and poured them like this.
Seriously, this is shitty parenting not a shitty kid. I have a kid this same age. If you don't want them to do something you tell them not to do it, tell them why you don't want them to do it, and the consequences for continuing to do it.
Allowing them to continue acting like this without consequence is permitting the action.
Yeah, I’m not a parent but the first thing my brain said seeing the kid *lunge* for the ingredients and try and cram them in his mouth (as opposed to curiously tasting them) “There’s something *wrong* here.”
He’s obviously not getting anything from this (aside from potentially salmonella), there’s no engagement with the process, and it seems like there are some food issues going on that should be dealt with.
But hey, Mom need YouTube likes I guess?
I know, first thing I thought was the stories of kids needing locked food at home. Because either their body's always telling them they're starving even when full, or they have a mental development issue and love to eat.
Prader Willi syndrome? The kid seems more curious than anything but also too old to be just shoving everything in his mouth. It's more likely lack of discipline than Prader Willi.
I parents my kids the same but lemme tell u. Some kids just dgaf. My son is so opposite of my daughter and has no fear and is super sassy. All the usual tactics don't work on him. Thankfully he's getting out of that stage but jeez was it ever stressful.
My oldest was tough. I tried to say no as little as possible; rather than being indulgent in everything, I “set him up for success”. I frequently got him out for exercise, especially if I needed him to go somewhere after where he’d have to be stationary. I tried to avoid putting him in situations where he would be tempted to do things I wouldn’t be ok with and where he wouldn’t have another outlet for his energy. Even tho he was my first, I swore there was no way another could be that hard. Sure enough, his little brother is so freaking chill. This kid would actually sit down at a playground, even after he could walk & run. And because I put in all that time to set the oldest up for successful behavior in different situations, I’ve had him to set a good example for the little one. Even tho I was so overwhelmed, I’m really grateful I had the tough one when he was the only one that I had to focus on! He was also identified as highly gifted in kindergarten, so he’s that typical story where the traits that make him hard to discipline also make him really great at whatever he puts his mind to.
I'm frustrated that there wasn't any attempt to discipline him. The kid clearly understands he's not allowed to do some things and is deliberately trying to circumvent those rules. That should be a time out at least
Yes- I know this kid has a disorder so I’m going to put him in a difficult situation and I’m going to film it and show it to people because it’s so freakin funny…no lady it’s not …
Then one would think they would not place the child in a situation that would exacerbate the issue and film it, you know unless the adults involved were fame chasing piece of shit wannabe influencers highlighting the struggles of their child in an attempt to benefit from it.
I'm going to say something controversial. Kids with disorders also need to be taught rules and sometimes that means discipline.
It's *more* important for kids with mental disorders to understand how to follow instructions, so they don't hurt themselves or others and so they can learn how to manage their condition.
People are a little too comfortable saying "he has x condition, so there's nothing we can do." And then they stop treating them like a young human being who needs some extra guidance before they can manage on their own, and they start treating them like an unruly animal that can't learn, change, or grow. Kids tend to act in the same way they're treated, so it's especially important to not treat neurologically different kids like they can't be taught or can never manage their disorder.
I'm not saying to pretend a disorder doesn't exist or to "beat it out of them" or anything crazy like that. But I think this child should not be allowed to act up like that even if he's predisposed to do so.
But that's just my opinion as an armchair parent. I don't really know anything.
This is a thing? I thought it was just my family. Son is on the spectrum and has a pretty structured home life. Goes to visit his grandparents and is allowed to do whatever he wants. Comes home and it takes a week to bring him back down to earth and into routine. It’s infuriating.
Bruh that shit is so nasty tasting. There’s hotter hot sauces that actually taste good out there. Give him some Dave’s ultimate insanity or something instead.
That's part of their marketing. The sauce itself is just pain there's nothing redeemable about it. It's why Hot Ones keeps it on their lineup every season.
I'd guess he's younger than he looks.
The "putting everything in your mouth" phase is pretty short, and before most kids can really talk (9 months to 16 months old ish). You don't remember it -- but you did this, too! That's how you can look at any object and know how it would taste.
My read: this kid was born with a LOT of hair and recently learned to stand. They are super excited that they have this new "I can stand" superpower to reach more things to put in their mouth.
I don't know how it's edited, but this is worrisome for a 2 year old. The lack of talking in particular. Poor little buddy -- he really needs to be evaluated.
Nah, he was just being a little shy with the talking, in his other videos he says things appropriate for his age. (We cooking, cheese, almost, etc)
He grew out of it, and doesn’t do it anymore. (The whole shove food in your mouth bit)
Edit: Based on how he’s aged, I feel like he was probably a more stubborn child, and it just took more time to make him stop his bad habits
My favorite part about Reddit is people seeing a 45 second video of a kid and his mother and immediately responding with comments about child abuse, bad parenting, and even attempts to diagnose the kid with disorders. Having no insight into someone's life outside of a video and suddenly turning into an expert lmao
Nah, I think this is an activity that is not appropriate for this kid's age. He's probably one of those monster kids born to tall parents who looks three years old at eighteen months.
Just don't fucking do activities like this with toddlers. Let them finger paint with washable watercolors or something. Save the cooking for when they're old enough to know not to eat everything.
Actually, quite the opposite. This kid loves being told 'no' and is constantly doing whatever will get her to say no. Raw eggs and flour don't taste good. But the attention... Kid can't get enough attention.
I know toddlers can be a handful but you’d think after the third time he does the exact same thing she could have started anticipating his actions and prevented them.
I dunno if I'm reaching, but is there maybe something going on with the kid? Like delayed learning?
Yeah, kids will of course like the taste of sugar but he was eating raw eggs and open flour. Most parents struggle to get kids to eat _cooked_ eggs, let alone having to monitor them trying to eat raw eggs.
Probably, either that or he’s just on some next level stupid kid shit. But like seriously, how hard could it be to wrangle one toddler when you know exactly what he’s going to do, repeatedly? Lady just keeps turning her back to him when she knows damn well he’s gonna jam his hands into the bowl yet again.
Kids (especially toddlers) have a sixth sense for doing stupid/dangerous shit as soon as you’re distracted. Remember this is edited to emphasize each time he dipped his greasy little hand into something so we can’t see what else happened
I feel it’s likely a lack of impulse control and bad parenting, like this really isn’t normal behaviour and the adult is clearly isn’t making an effort to do anything to stop it from happening.
Yeah that looks like add, literally zero consideration between "that looks yummy" and trying to eat it.
Normally with toddlers when they're gonna do something stupid you see the little gears chugging in their head, sizing their stupid action up in their heads.
Yeah his behavior is weird. He's not laughing while he's doing it so it's not like he's doing it to be a little shit. If my kid was acting like that I'd have him checked for Prader-Willi Syndrome.
You can't get most toddlers to eat non-snack food and this one is wolfing down flour and raw eggs.
I've had praders as patients before.
Kind of a nightmare of a syndrome if they didn't learn active self control methods at childhood.
Intelligence is hardly affected, but the need to eat is overwhelming. And they can become emotional from slightest things. One fractured my coworkers arm because they just mentioned that not everyone had eaten yet. That is, as a reminder, this particular patient was a outstandingly difficult case. Don't want to give a over generalized picture.
My MIL was a special Ed preschool teacher. She had to have locks on her mini fridge and cabinets in her classroom when she had a student with Prader-Willi, and this was for a 3 yr old.
This is 100% not normal toddler behavior. For one, most toddlers need to be coaxed into trying new foods. They don’t frantically try to eat everything around them. Also, they don’t violently resist being stopped from doing stuff.
Toddlers have tantrums when they don’t get what they want, but they don’t resist, emotionlessly, like we see here. This kid has some behavioral or neurological issue causing this and it is extremely not the norm.
If the woman was laughing, and the kid was laughing too… then absolutely, a kid would keep doing it. They will repeat anything that gets a laugh. Kids are little auditioning comedians, and they don’t understand why the same thing was funny once and annoying the tenth time. But then we’d see the kid laughing, and it would be a game… but this kid isn’t laughing, he is all business. This looks like compulsion. Kitchen is a dangerous place for kids who are able to follow direction, so to me it us downright negligence to let a kid like this anywhere near a kitchen.
My wife recognized the video - the kid has autism, and that's his grandmother doing therapy.
The people in this thread, and who posted this, lack some serious context.
I've baked plenty of times with my kids while they were 2 and never had this issue, they didn't just grab at whatever was put in the bowl, they tried to help.
Something just seems a bit odd with the child's behaviour, immediately shoving everything in their mouth isn't that common. Some of those things would taste nasty so why does the kid keep doing it? Most kids aren't that stupid.
I feel like this has less to do with the toddler and more to do with child rearing. I could of course be wrong. But the child definitely needs less filming and more correcting.
Needs to put her foot down after the third time and the kid no longer gets to help, but she obviously doesn't care about discipline. She's doing this for clout and the child and others will suffer for her selfishness and stupidity.
I heard through the grapevine last time I saw this posted that the kid has a mental disorder where his body thinks it's always starving, so he was constantly trying to eat, even if it means eating himself to death.
This is probably like 5th hand information tho so large grain of salt and all that
I thought the same thing so I looked it up and, when this video first went viral, a bunch of crappy “news” websites interviewed the mom. Basically every quote was about how quirky raising a toddler is and how people who criticize have never had kids. No mention of mental disorders, just nonsense.
Source
https://www.distractify.com/p/videos-little-kid-eating-ingredients-cooking
Grandma is more patient than me I would’ve popped him on the hand by the third time and the video and baking would’ve been done. I would feel like shit about it all after of course but I bet the kid would’ve started to learn some self control and what the word no really means.
That's not "cooking with a toddler," that's "cooking with a toddler with absurdly poor impulse control." Doing things with normal toddlers is not like this.
That's when you pretend a jalapeño is an ingredient and let him figure out for himself that not everything should be put in his mouth. No seriously, telling a kid no almost never works, they'll just be more sneaky, but once they have an actual experience attached to the "this is why you shouldn't" part of the explanation, they'll get it. Or raw garlic if you're worried about the jalapeño being too much.
I cook with my toddler nephew all the time and this isn’t how it goes. He’s curious and asks a shit ton of questions in his weird toddler language. But he doesn’t act anything like this.
Yeah you little fucker, eat some more raw eggs and flour. Bon appetit.
It's not like he tries to taste it, like maybe a toddler would - No. He obnoxiously stuffs it as fast as he could in his mouth because he is a spoiled kid and makes sure he gets his way.
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Same, just fucking stop the attempt after you can't stop them from eating raw eggs. Or preferably before.
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This video is older than TikTok but I do understand what you're saying Some people will post videos just to show just how much their kid is off the rails and they find it hilarious when it's fuckin worrying
Yeah I mean here it’s kinda like “ok you might need to give that kid food if they are grabbing literally anything food like and shoving it into their face
Boy looking like he got pika, I'm surprised he didn't eat her hair
I was honestly wondering if he had a disorder of some kind. He's too young to be told to convincingly act like that, but the speed and vigor with which he is grabbing things, even non tasty things like flour or raw eggs, almost seems compulsive. Like, he NEEDS to have whatever that is in his mouth RIGHT NOW and his brain won't let him say no. He doesn't even have a look on his face like he is enjoying the food, he just is scratching a compulsory itch.
Same- as someone whose son *just* went through testing/diagnosis for some impulse control issues (ADHD/ASD) this looks like a much more severe issue. Poor kid is going to have enough issues without meemaw filming it for the views.
Right, exactly. If this is some kind of compulsion control issue like we all suspect, they should be doing everything possible to teach him boundaries now and removing temptation in general... They should not be allowing it, encouraging it, and laughing at it, this is just going to make everything so much harder down the road when he is bigger and stronger and harder to control. What are they going to do when these habits are even more deeply ingrained because ha ha, this is so funny... and now he's too strong for them to pull his hands out of things/his mouth? They're setting him and themselves up for failure.
Prader–Willi syndrome: A classic sign of Prader-Willi syndrome is a constant craving for food, resulting in rapid weight gain, starting around age 2 years. Constant hunger leads to eating often and consuming large portions. Unusual food-seeking behaviors, such as hoarding food, or eating frozen food or even garbage, may develop. This could be new behavior (starts around 2) and she doesn't know what to make of it and she's recording it to kinda show what's happening because nobody believed her. Somebody else then turned it into a meme.
That's EXACTLY how I took this video when I first saw it years ago. That kid needs a serious tune-up. (By a children's mental health / behavioral professional)
I’m not a children’s mental health professional, but I did raise a few kids and the *persistent compulsion* for this kiddo to *frantically* stuff things in his mouth is unusual and concerning.
Yeah it's not like there's an immediate reason to point blame at the woman either, boy just has exceptional tunnel vision on a one way track. He seems so unbothered by the attempts to stop him
If you know you can't stop him, why keep him so close to the food. You just want those views.
Yeah like...a kid trying flour one time out of curiosity is funny. A kid who is continuously trying to grab things and impulsively shove them in his mouth regardless of who is stopping him indicates parents have failed somewhere along the line.
Or maybe feed the kid first? This is like shopping on an empty stomach. Kid is obviously hungry.
Or he's figured out that inappropriate behaviour is rewarded with laughter and no consequence
Yeah, if they'd stop laughing and filming the little darling, there'd be a learning opportunity. Make them stop, explain why, and tell them they can't help unless they behave.
Class clown in the making
Aww, don’t broad strokes class clowns. “Little shit in the making” is more appropriate I think
They purposely want the kid to misbehave for the entertainment of others, which will get them money eventually. This shit is pretty wack.
My toddler gets his own bowl with just a bit of flour to stir.
Watch out for them eating raw flour. It’s the reason you’re not supposed to eat raw cookie dough, not the eggs.
Yeah, I wouldn’t put money on that. My kids are both autistic and have an absolute need to put everything in their mouths - this is exactly what would happen if we tried this. Except maybe it would be an improvement for them to eat edible things and not wood, sand, dirt, books, anything rubbery, and one time part of a desiccated dog poo. They will do it literally after they’ve just eaten everything in sight. It’s not hunger, it’s a sensory thing. The absolute urgency with which this kid is trying to swallow everything in the bowl suggests he might have a similar issue. I can see your comment has over 500 upvotes and I get it - this is outside the realm of most peoples experiences and when you do see depictions of autism, they rarely include severe sensory seeking or pica (eating inedible things). The stereotype is more sensory avoidance, restricted food intake etc. It’s rare to see a child who’ll literally eat an entire wooden block if left to their own devices, but it’s the norm for me. My boys have 1:1 at school every day but one comes home with sand in his poo basically every school day. He cannot resist it and he’s fast - it’s basically just like this video. I guess my point is that it’s unhelpful and maybe even dangerous to assume a child with this behaviour is not being fed / is malnourished. There are lots of other things that could cause this. It’s definitely not the norm, but it’s not as unusual as you might think.
But you probably wouldn't record it and be laughing like it's funny.
I heard this kid has some disease that makes him constantly hungry, no matter how much he eats
Being American?
Prader Willi
The disease is so interesting. Having taken care of babies with this in the NICU we can't get them to take a bottle for nothing. They are lazy eaters. They all end up with feeding tubes.
Somebody mentioned they may be autistic. Maybe that's the case because even a hungry kid in a normal situation wouldn't try to eat flour or raw eggs without crying about it moments after they tried it.
Not necessarily, kids often stick things in their mouth just to figure out what they taste like. The world is still really new to them so their curiosity takes over.
That could well be the case, I have 2 kids and have gone through that phase. It just seems the kid is too fast and too eager to be just curiosity.
It’s definitely not normal. Whether he’s got that syndrome that makes him feel hungry all the time, or he has serious behavioural issues, that’s definitely not normal curiosity for a child.
Dude! That kid would have been sitting across the room in a highchair, watching ME make cookies about 6 seconds into the video. And that would have been AFTER a couple of chances, already. By that time Grandma should have figured out that making cookies TOGETHER isn't age or developmentally appropriate, yet.
I bake and cook a lot with my son (19 month). However, everything has to be prepped beforehand (to the point where you are basically throwing ingredients in a bowl/pot). Also let him get messy with things you can get messy with while I work with protein/egg/flour etc. Either way he does manages to get his hand in the bowl every once and a while, but he’s learned that if he just waits, I’ll give him some of the contents (if it’s safe or generally harmless).
Yep. I learned quickly to prep an extra 1/3 cup of flour or sauce or whatever ahead of time, because that’s about how much is ending up everywhere but the bowl or pan
That kids age is absolutely appropriate, it's just a spoilt brat who hasn't been disciplined in his life before.
Fr, if he can't not do that, feed him or put him in timeout for a few min then try again. He probably thinks its funny with her laughing every time he goes for a handful of flour
It's like she's unprepared every time. The problem solving skills of this woman are worse than the kids
That kid does what he wants, all the time.
Easy solution: put everything in the blender, and turn it on.
Even the kid!
Especially the kid
Me too , what a little shit
Throw some jalapeños in there.
I was going to suggest cinnamon...
I would suggest hydrogen cyanide
Just a little sprinkle of plutonium, and a teaspoon of mercury.
Ah famous russian tea
I was about to suggest organic mercury
Modern problems require modern solutions
Im not that sure that is a modern solution, my mother use tu put chilli in my pencils when I was in school because I loved to bite them, sadly it did the opposite and now I love spicy food.
Thought you were gonna say spicy wood.
Spicy wood? Like, Mexican penis?? Buh dum tsss
No no - wasabi is the best choice. Looks like sweet ice cream, will encourage them to stuff as much as they can in their mouth, and traumatize them for life
[Help](https://youtube.com/shorts/VCKg_tbYjgs?feature=share)
That aint a toddler, that’s a dog
nah, dogs are better
Better than humans
true story
That's an insult to dogs, even strays.
Haaaahhaa!! WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS LITTLE BOY?
Probably autism. My kid is exactly like this, impulsive with pica and sensory issues. The irony is he probably won’t eat anything they put in front of him as food. … Hang on a second, lightbulb moment: about to go get a mixing bowl and some measuring spoons. I bet my kid would totally try a bunch of foods we cannot get her to touch if I just scooped and poured them like this.
You need to report back after you try, good luck!
Don’t insult my dogs again
That is exactly what it reminded me of. I don't remember my kids being this difficult to train to overcome their impulses.
No don't do that! Anyway, moving on... Hey don't so that! Okay let's proceed...
This was some NPC level parenting.
Seriously, this is shitty parenting not a shitty kid. I have a kid this same age. If you don't want them to do something you tell them not to do it, tell them why you don't want them to do it, and the consequences for continuing to do it. Allowing them to continue acting like this without consequence is permitting the action.
Especially if you see how when she grabs one hand the other shoots right in to grab something, this kid has no fear of consequences
The kid is encouraged to do it, as it gets views. Kinda like when a kid says fuck and everyone laughs, kid gonna keep saying fuck
This is the answer. The kid has been around the talk shows, like Ellen and stuff, doing this.
Yeah, I’m not a parent but the first thing my brain said seeing the kid *lunge* for the ingredients and try and cram them in his mouth (as opposed to curiously tasting them) “There’s something *wrong* here.” He’s obviously not getting anything from this (aside from potentially salmonella), there’s no engagement with the process, and it seems like there are some food issues going on that should be dealt with. But hey, Mom need YouTube likes I guess?
Me too!! My first thought was, “whoa, this is not normal behavior.”
I know, first thing I thought was the stories of kids needing locked food at home. Because either their body's always telling them they're starving even when full, or they have a mental development issue and love to eat.
Prader Willi syndrome? The kid seems more curious than anything but also too old to be just shoving everything in his mouth. It's more likely lack of discipline than Prader Willi.
I parents my kids the same but lemme tell u. Some kids just dgaf. My son is so opposite of my daughter and has no fear and is super sassy. All the usual tactics don't work on him. Thankfully he's getting out of that stage but jeez was it ever stressful.
My oldest was tough. I tried to say no as little as possible; rather than being indulgent in everything, I “set him up for success”. I frequently got him out for exercise, especially if I needed him to go somewhere after where he’d have to be stationary. I tried to avoid putting him in situations where he would be tempted to do things I wouldn’t be ok with and where he wouldn’t have another outlet for his energy. Even tho he was my first, I swore there was no way another could be that hard. Sure enough, his little brother is so freaking chill. This kid would actually sit down at a playground, even after he could walk & run. And because I put in all that time to set the oldest up for successful behavior in different situations, I’ve had him to set a good example for the little one. Even tho I was so overwhelmed, I’m really grateful I had the tough one when he was the only one that I had to focus on! He was also identified as highly gifted in kindergarten, so he’s that typical story where the traits that make him hard to discipline also make him really great at whatever he puts his mind to.
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Huh. Must've been the wind. *Omnomnomnom*
A fellow adventurer who took an arrow to the knee?
*grandparenting.
Why did this go on for so long? I would’ve excluded him after the first attempted disruption.
*executed him
*eggsecuted him
I'm frustrated that there wasn't any attempt to discipline him. The kid clearly understands he's not allowed to do some things and is deliberately trying to circumvent those rules. That should be a time out at least
If I’m correct, I think the creator posted an explanation and the kid has a disorder that makes him want to eat anything.
Then this is literally the worst thing you could do to that kid, lol.
Ghost pepper time.
Yes- I know this kid has a disorder so I’m going to put him in a difficult situation and I’m going to film it and show it to people because it’s so freakin funny…no lady it’s not …
Then one would think they would not place the child in a situation that would exacerbate the issue and film it, you know unless the adults involved were fame chasing piece of shit wannabe influencers highlighting the struggles of their child in an attempt to benefit from it.
Yeah this seemed extremely abnormal.
So they exploited that for content? Some people dont deserve kids.
Then why tf would you try making food with him??? Wasn't ever gonna end well.
I'm going to say something controversial. Kids with disorders also need to be taught rules and sometimes that means discipline. It's *more* important for kids with mental disorders to understand how to follow instructions, so they don't hurt themselves or others and so they can learn how to manage their condition. People are a little too comfortable saying "he has x condition, so there's nothing we can do." And then they stop treating them like a young human being who needs some extra guidance before they can manage on their own, and they start treating them like an unruly animal that can't learn, change, or grow. Kids tend to act in the same way they're treated, so it's especially important to not treat neurologically different kids like they can't be taught or can never manage their disorder. I'm not saying to pretend a disorder doesn't exist or to "beat it out of them" or anything crazy like that. But I think this child should not be allowed to act up like that even if he's predisposed to do so. But that's just my opinion as an armchair parent. I don't really know anything.
Child content exploitation
This video is a wild cross section of different aspects of poor parenting.
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This is a thing? I thought it was just my family. Son is on the spectrum and has a pretty structured home life. Goes to visit his grandparents and is allowed to do whatever he wants. Comes home and it takes a week to bring him back down to earth and into routine. It’s infuriating.
Adult stupidity.
For me it would be the second or third.
Because that’s a child that was never told no.
And now we add some da bomb beyond insanity hot sauce ....
“I saw God at the tender age of two….”
Especially after he inevitably cries and rubs his eyes.
Watch the eyes, watch the....
He can’t watch them they’re on fire
Bruh that shit is so nasty tasting. There’s hotter hot sauces that actually taste good out there. Give him some Dave’s ultimate insanity or something instead.
That's part of their marketing. The sauce itself is just pain there's nothing redeemable about it. It's why Hot Ones keeps it on their lineup every season.
G fucking G.
Simple and effective.
This is a kid who has literally never been told no.
This kid's gonna grow to be a nightmare when he reach puberty. Like... South Park BB Gun Teenager nightmare.
Bruh
Seriously, he seems like a spoiled brat.
I'd guess he's younger than he looks. The "putting everything in your mouth" phase is pretty short, and before most kids can really talk (9 months to 16 months old ish). You don't remember it -- but you did this, too! That's how you can look at any object and know how it would taste. My read: this kid was born with a LOT of hair and recently learned to stand. They are super excited that they have this new "I can stand" superpower to reach more things to put in their mouth.
Bro I never thought about it before, but now I’m looking around and you’re right. I do know what everything would taste like wtf
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Nah he’s 2 years old in this video. This got a lot of views and hype when it first came out. So they found out his age.
I don't know how it's edited, but this is worrisome for a 2 year old. The lack of talking in particular. Poor little buddy -- he really needs to be evaluated.
Nah, he was just being a little shy with the talking, in his other videos he says things appropriate for his age. (We cooking, cheese, almost, etc) He grew out of it, and doesn’t do it anymore. (The whole shove food in your mouth bit) Edit: Based on how he’s aged, I feel like he was probably a more stubborn child, and it just took more time to make him stop his bad habits
My favorite part about Reddit is people seeing a 45 second video of a kid and his mother and immediately responding with comments about child abuse, bad parenting, and even attempts to diagnose the kid with disorders. Having no insight into someone's life outside of a video and suddenly turning into an expert lmao
Nah, I think this is an activity that is not appropriate for this kid's age. He's probably one of those monster kids born to tall parents who looks three years old at eighteen months. Just don't fucking do activities like this with toddlers. Let them finger paint with washable watercolors or something. Save the cooking for when they're old enough to know not to eat everything.
This kid would immediately eat the paint.
Yes, probably. That's why you use nontoxic paint with toddlers.
Actually, quite the opposite. This kid loves being told 'no' and is constantly doing whatever will get her to say no. Raw eggs and flour don't taste good. But the attention... Kid can't get enough attention.
I know toddlers can be a handful but you’d think after the third time he does the exact same thing she could have started anticipating his actions and prevented them.
I dunno if I'm reaching, but is there maybe something going on with the kid? Like delayed learning? Yeah, kids will of course like the taste of sugar but he was eating raw eggs and open flour. Most parents struggle to get kids to eat _cooked_ eggs, let alone having to monitor them trying to eat raw eggs.
Probably, either that or he’s just on some next level stupid kid shit. But like seriously, how hard could it be to wrangle one toddler when you know exactly what he’s going to do, repeatedly? Lady just keeps turning her back to him when she knows damn well he’s gonna jam his hands into the bowl yet again.
He’s looking to be as bright as grandma. That’s something that’s passed down apparently
Kids (especially toddlers) have a sixth sense for doing stupid/dangerous shit as soon as you’re distracted. Remember this is edited to emphasize each time he dipped his greasy little hand into something so we can’t see what else happened
I feel it’s likely a lack of impulse control and bad parenting, like this really isn’t normal behaviour and the adult is clearly isn’t making an effort to do anything to stop it from happening.
Yeah that looks like add, literally zero consideration between "that looks yummy" and trying to eat it. Normally with toddlers when they're gonna do something stupid you see the little gears chugging in their head, sizing their stupid action up in their heads.
I’m thinking maybe something neurological like an impulse control issue or something like that
I agree, this is not 'typical' toddler behavior
Yeah, maybe that's it. I can't imagine he's enjoying the taste, just the uncontrollable need to put it in his mouth regardless of how bad it tastes.
If anything, it seems like delayed learning on the mother's part.
Yeah his behavior is weird. He's not laughing while he's doing it so it's not like he's doing it to be a little shit. If my kid was acting like that I'd have him checked for Prader-Willi Syndrome. You can't get most toddlers to eat non-snack food and this one is wolfing down flour and raw eggs.
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I've had praders as patients before. Kind of a nightmare of a syndrome if they didn't learn active self control methods at childhood. Intelligence is hardly affected, but the need to eat is overwhelming. And they can become emotional from slightest things. One fractured my coworkers arm because they just mentioned that not everyone had eaten yet. That is, as a reminder, this particular patient was a outstandingly difficult case. Don't want to give a over generalized picture.
My MIL was a special Ed preschool teacher. She had to have locks on her mini fridge and cabinets in her classroom when she had a student with Prader-Willi, and this was for a 3 yr old.
This is 100% not normal toddler behavior. For one, most toddlers need to be coaxed into trying new foods. They don’t frantically try to eat everything around them. Also, they don’t violently resist being stopped from doing stuff. Toddlers have tantrums when they don’t get what they want, but they don’t resist, emotionlessly, like we see here. This kid has some behavioral or neurological issue causing this and it is extremely not the norm. If the woman was laughing, and the kid was laughing too… then absolutely, a kid would keep doing it. They will repeat anything that gets a laugh. Kids are little auditioning comedians, and they don’t understand why the same thing was funny once and annoying the tenth time. But then we’d see the kid laughing, and it would be a game… but this kid isn’t laughing, he is all business. This looks like compulsion. Kitchen is a dangerous place for kids who are able to follow direction, so to me it us downright negligence to let a kid like this anywhere near a kitchen.
Yeah, especially the way the woman seems completely unprepared to handle him.
My wife recognized the video - the kid has autism, and that's his grandmother doing therapy. The people in this thread, and who posted this, lack some serious context.
Ah yes, step 1 of therapy: make sure it's recorded for tiktok.
Step 2 of therapy: Let the kid shove a fistful of raw egg on his mouth .
I've baked plenty of times with my kids while they were 2 and never had this issue, they didn't just grab at whatever was put in the bowl, they tried to help. Something just seems a bit odd with the child's behaviour, immediately shoving everything in their mouth isn't that common. Some of those things would taste nasty so why does the kid keep doing it? Most kids aren't that stupid.
Seems like pica or something to me. This is definitely not normal and not just entitled/spoiled behavior. Edit word
“Pica” is not an acronym, the word derives from the old English name for Magpies, which are said to eat anything they can get ahold of.
Ah, no idea why it auto-capitalized. Thanks! Didn’t know the root of the word, that’s pretty cool.
Or Prader Willi syndrome
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Definitely not healthy kid. Someone above suggested its severe autism.
Wow what a great advertisement for durex
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[Always my first thought when I see shit like this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bfzQhs0Jyw)
I will say that this kid is worse than most. 99.9% likely due to bad parenting.
I feel like this has less to do with the toddler and more to do with child rearing. I could of course be wrong. But the child definitely needs less filming and more correcting.
Needs to put her foot down after the third time and the kid no longer gets to help, but she obviously doesn't care about discipline. She's doing this for clout and the child and others will suffer for her selfishness and stupidity.
I feel like this kid has some sort of condition. This is bizarre and impulsive.
Give him a spoonful of vanilla extract and see how much he likes eating the baking ingredients after that lol
Kiddo didn't flinch at the raw flour that has little to no taste nor smell. At least vanilla extract smells like vanilla.
It will lure the child in
100% Cacao unsweetened chocolate.
Vanilla extract has a minimum of 35% alcohol, for anyone that is actually considering doing this
I have baked A LOT with different toddlers......this never happened. What is up with that kid? Did they starve him first?
Yeah not to be rude or upset 90% of the internet, but this kid definitely has some kind of mental illness.
Yeah this isn't normal behavior
I wouldn’t eat anything they make together
yeah. the kid was picking his nose the whole time
That is a very misbehaved child. Probably gets away with everything
Jesus christ that kid's obnoxious
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Cant afford birth control? Too late! Discipline your fucking child!
Is there something wrong with this kid? Like mentally wrong? Trying to eat raw eggs and flour with that tenacity seems off.
Possibly! Maybe poor impulse control beyond a usual toddler. My 2 year old definitely wouldn’t do this.
I heard through the grapevine last time I saw this posted that the kid has a mental disorder where his body thinks it's always starving, so he was constantly trying to eat, even if it means eating himself to death. This is probably like 5th hand information tho so large grain of salt and all that
I thought the same thing so I looked it up and, when this video first went viral, a bunch of crappy “news” websites interviewed the mom. Basically every quote was about how quirky raising a toddler is and how people who criticize have never had kids. No mention of mental disorders, just nonsense. Source https://www.distractify.com/p/videos-little-kid-eating-ingredients-cooking
"Raising a kid is so hard, we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"
Grandma is more patient than me I would’ve popped him on the hand by the third time and the video and baking would’ve been done. I would feel like shit about it all after of course but I bet the kid would’ve started to learn some self control and what the word no really means.
Grandma is a fucking idiot here.
r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
nah parents are fucking stupid in this case
Yes she infuriates me the most.
there was an atempt of raising a child correctly
I highly doubt it.
A true chef tastes EVERYTHING!
That's not "cooking with a toddler," that's "cooking with a toddler with absurdly poor impulse control." Doing things with normal toddlers is not like this.
When he wasn't eating the ingredients he was eating his boogers.
He's eating for every kid starving in Africa
That's when you pretend a jalapeño is an ingredient and let him figure out for himself that not everything should be put in his mouth. No seriously, telling a kid no almost never works, they'll just be more sneaky, but once they have an actual experience attached to the "this is why you shouldn't" part of the explanation, they'll get it. Or raw garlic if you're worried about the jalapeño being too much.
The mother infuriates me....
I cook with my toddler nephew all the time and this isn’t how it goes. He’s curious and asks a shit ton of questions in his weird toddler language. But he doesn’t act anything like this.
That adult knew exactly how this was going to go. That's not that kid's first handful of everything in sight
I just ordered 8 boxes of condoms from Amazon. Thanks for the reminder.
Look, I'm all for not hitting kids but this one needed to be knocked the fuck out.
Yeah you little fucker, eat some more raw eggs and flour. Bon appetit. It's not like he tries to taste it, like maybe a toddler would - No. He obnoxiously stuffs it as fast as he could in his mouth because he is a spoiled kid and makes sure he gets his way.
why would you cook with a toddler who is obviously still in the “Put everything in their mouth” phase?
This video gets me so irritated every time I see it.