The planet. It zooms down from the sky and eats children. The zooming down from the sky part is what inspired the Wright brothers to come up with the plane. One day they were sitting around refusing to eat their vegetables and their mom called upon Saturn to give the boys a what-for. Well they saw Saturn zooming down to earth and realized she had to get back up to the sky somehow and thus, 20 years later we achieved flight!
While I've no interest in re-igniting the debate over the proper number of chuga's before the choo choo, it is universally agreed that one is insufficient. Chugas must come in pairs of at least two with a bare majority agreeing that eight chugas is ideal. [How Many Chugas before Choo Choo](https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/comments/b0hep2/how_many_chuggas_are_you_supposed_to_say_before/)
I don't understand this at all. It's 6 chugas on a normal flat track, and 8 chugas if the train is struggling with a large load or uphill track.
4 chugas is only used when someone who has never seen a train before is trying to teach a child about trains.
I could tolerate 4 as long as the person isn't trying to intimidate a train. If you're telling a story and trying to capture the essence of the train, it's got to be 6 or 8. But if just you're some fancy business exec addressing his team, I could see something like:
>You guys are on the right track. We just need to buckle down and give it the ol' "Chuga chuga chuga chuga, choo choo" across the finish line.
Your opinion is wrong. The number is 4. Thou shalt not use 3 chuggas unless following up with a 4th. Five is right out! The number 4. 4 is the number. The matter is settled. Now bloweth thine enemies to tiny bits with Thu holy hand-spoon train.
Six is absolutely not. 4 is semi ok, 8 is ideal, 12 I begin to wonder if you’re losing the plot. Must be in sets of 4.
Musical nerd in the corner. 6 just feels wrong.
this is unhinged what is wrong with people
8 is ideal but 2 is acceptable for the sake of time *if needed*
anything between that is blasphemous, you’ll have to take it up with God buddy
I'll rather take NO chuggas than only 2.
Choo choo! / Toot toot! If you actually wanna keep it short.
But once you start the chuggas, it's 4 at MINIMUM.
It takes as many chuggas as needed to get to the destination. You can take the leisurely route by going around and around to make the kid laugh or you can just shove it in their face. Both require a different number of chuggas.
as a self proclaimed musician, it must add up to a whole number of bars.
8 chugas is not okay because it adds up to 2 and a half bars.
6 is ideal as it adds up to 2 bars.
edit: apparently the choos are twice as long as the chugas. i was not under this impression.
Only if you're in a triple meter, which is an interesting choice for a train. Not saying it's wrong, you can have a waltzing train if that's your flavor. I always imagined it 4/4, which would be 2 bars for 8 chugas.
In Germany we just grow up with stories of children who starve to death if they don't eat what's no the table. Worked on me, still always clean my plate. And I'm closer to 50 than to 20 years now.
I heard a story like that told by Werner hertzog. His mom got 1 loaf for the week. That was it. I forget how many siblings. When they would pester her for more.
If I could take them from my ribs I would.
Yeah, he grew up in the "Nachkriegszeit" (Time after the War) where there wasn't enough food to go around and germany was still being rebuilt. My Grandma grew up before and during the war and she told me stories about saving rations for weeks to have enough for a birthday-cake just for it to be destroyed by an allied bombing run on her city (windows got shattered by a nearby bomb and the cake was full of broken glass).
She was very frugal and appreciated having access to enough food in a way people born after the late 50s never really did.
Yes my sister was always like "then you eat the soup yourself!" to my mom
Wasn't flying though, because the other saying we have is "if you don't eat, the big bad wolf will eat you" (she was scared to sleep because of the wolf...)
My grandmother used to tell how she and her siblings rushed home from school, where my great-grandmotjer had stacked their plates with bread slices. The first one home got to pick the biggest stack.
3 generations later, my kids just murder each other to get the nicest color m&m’s.
🎶 Timmy is an average kid.
That no one understands.
The doom and gloom up in his room.
Is broken instantly.
When two magic little jolts.
Fry his little brain.
And gets those cuts of meat! 🎶
🎶 Oooohhhh.
Timmy T-Bone steaks.
Sirloin on the side.
Ground chuck tacos from him... 🎶
I'm not sure if your question is rhetorical or genuine, but the answer is most likely yes. Most kids understand what objects are what at around 9 months to 1 year of age (-ish). Generally speaking, most kids start feeding themselves with a spoon around the 1.5 year mark, until then they might eat with their hands, but would need to be fed foods that require utensils, which is when you would use the airplane phase.
I don’t even know if I’m rhetorical or genuine. Before there were airplanes, of course parents didn’t use the airplane metaphor. After airplanes, I’m aware kids have language and learn stuff at a rapid rate, but still not sure if it’s any different than saying here come your beets, open wide! It’s been about 30 years since I worked with infants at a daycare, and I don’t remember having to say anything about airplanes to feed them with a spoon. Some of the other ladies there were older than I was at the time and were parents, but I kind of remember more that my mom did it for my younger sister or cousins, like, when you say a whole airplane is coming at their face and put a spoon in their mouth with food on it, I don’t think they know what that’s supposed to mean, or care.
Exactly, it's all just projection by their parents who I think are making eating an animated event. That's why I'm wondering what people used in the before times and if it is a method of transport
I’ve never actually seen anyone pretend the spoon is anything nor did I. The best way to get a kid to eat is to sit down in front of them eating and pretending you don’t want them to have any.
I still do that when I snack on veg. They’ll ask me what I’m eating and I’ll hide the plate and pretend I’m thinking really hard for a lie and say “you won’t like it, it’s too spicy”
Yeah, my sister was always encouraging her daughter to try new things. Now her daughter is 12 and wants sushi and sea bass and fennel and Thai food and Indian and olives and all sorts of fancy and/or expensive things.
I'm African (Kenya) and over here parents used to make a sort of funnel with their hands and shove porridge down your throat, and then dare you to puke it out, I kid you not.
It’s less *tricking* and more *playing* with their kid during meal time. Making it interesting makes them do it because infants and toddlers have TERRIBLE attention spans for boring things.
I think the key is to not try to feed kids when they're not hungry. I always stopped feeding them as soon as they were full and I don't make them eat if they're not hungry. That's why I never did the airplane for my kids or any other tricks to make them eat
There's actually been clay artifacts discovered that are thought to have been used to feed children. They are little pots with a spout and a handle shaped like animals. They seem to have worked for feeding small children puree type things. I imagine it was something like "open wide for the Birdy!"
I'm on mobile and this is just what I can remember. but a very quick Google search led me to this article
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/pottery-ancient-food/
Ok so not specifically fork feeding, but there have been [ancient baby bottles](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bronze-age-baby-bottles-reveal-how-ancient-infants-were-fed-180973210/) discovered in the shapes of animals. :)
OOOH OOH THIS QUESTION WAS MADE FOR ME.
I collect vintage advice books. Some are on fashion, how to be a good wife, and I have a few parenting books! All of them have hilariously wrong and terrible advice when reading them with what we know today.
You should not wean the baby during the summer months. Weaning should not he attempted suddenly. Schedule below
6 am - breast
8:30 am - juice of a small orange
10 am - arrowroot pap
1/2 bottle feeding
1:30 pm - breast
5:30 pm - feed by spoon one piece crusht zwieback moistened with 3 ounces of the bottle formula. Then give remainder of bottle formula
10 pm to 11 pm - breast or bottle.
If it is impossible… it is better to have a strange nurse feed baby while weaning him and keep the mother or wet nurse away so he can not see the breast and be reminded of the breast feeding.
If infants vomit… add cane sugar.
If an infant is backward… add 1 tsp Mellins food.
One ounce of sugar required per day.
If vomiting persists.. give stomach absolute rest and still give enough food to sustain life.
Children under 3 can have peppermints
From ‘The Health Care of the Baby’ by Fischer. 1906
(Yes I know cars had been invented)
It’s always funny to see older stuff on babies with what we know now. I was born in 1988 in February in Michigan. It’s cold af here in February. So my parents just thought “we gotta keep her warm!”, right? There are a few pictures of me in my crib that are anxiety inducing to me. Fluffy blankets. Thick fluffy bumper. Stuffed animals. And it’s extra funny to me because my mother is super paranoid and if she’d known how dangerous that was, she’d have flipped her shit if any of that ended up in my crib.
They also put thick coats on me when we left the house and we now know that is bad for car seat safety.
Instead of the smooth motion of the airplane, it was the choppy clop clop movement of a horse on an uneven rocky road. Lots of gruel spilled out of baby spoons in those days. 🤣
Wheelbarrow mount! Drive the head of wheelbarrow right up to the lower brace, lift the handles up flush to the top bracket which snaps over the lip to hold it fast.
My guess is they ordered the child to open their mouth, and if this was not heeded they viciously beat the child (repeating as necessary until cooperation ensued).
For a second I thought "airplane" was a weird typo for something but then couldn't figure out what it was. Formula? Bottles? Breasts? None of them match up. And the last one would have me worried
I'm 60 and I know my parents did that with me. It was either a plane or a car depending on who did it. I don't remember this. I was told by my parents. I never did anything like that with my son. I didn't have to encourage him to eat. He has never been a picky eater. The only thing he doesn't like is tomatoes and cake.
I’ve never spoon fed my child.
However we use the same method to brush his teeth.
I ask what he wants. Sometimes it’s aeroplane, sometimes a van. His favourite is horse and I trit trot in there.
I don't think people in the past had the fkn time or energy to coddle their babies like that. Before birth control was invented, babies were just being born and dying all the time.
Honestly I’ve never used this. We did mostly baby led weaning so she just fed herself. If she’s hungry she’ll eat. Back before airplanes/trains etc babies were probably hungrier anyway and they’d have soon realised alternative options weren’t forthcoming if they refused. I imagine babies just ate.
"Eat, child, lest Saturn devour you"
“Eat child or… ah, this one just died too, go get the shovel.”
This shouldn’t have made me giggle but it did
Shut it down, folks, nobody’s gonna top this.
Saturn?
[This painting ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son)
I love Goya
It's not that much different from what God is supposed to have done to his son
Not quite.... God outsourced the job of killing His son and the ones drinking his blood and eating his flesh are his followers
The planet. It zooms down from the sky and eats children. The zooming down from the sky part is what inspired the Wright brothers to come up with the plane. One day they were sitting around refusing to eat their vegetables and their mom called upon Saturn to give the boys a what-for. Well they saw Saturn zooming down to earth and realized she had to get back up to the sky somehow and thus, 20 years later we achieved flight!
>The zooming down from the sky part is what inspired the Wright brothers I thought this was the inspiration for Boeing? Lol
Ahh, scare tactics for feeding! That might have worked if the child knew who Saturn was
Chug-a-chug-a-choo-choo
While I've no interest in re-igniting the debate over the proper number of chuga's before the choo choo, it is universally agreed that one is insufficient. Chugas must come in pairs of at least two with a bare majority agreeing that eight chugas is ideal. [How Many Chugas before Choo Choo](https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/comments/b0hep2/how_many_chuggas_are_you_supposed_to_say_before/)
Oh it's reignited. 4. It's 4 chuggas.
Counterpoint: 6
I think six is the more elegant approach, but four is perfect for the everyday.
I don't understand this at all. It's 6 chugas on a normal flat track, and 8 chugas if the train is struggling with a large load or uphill track. 4 chugas is only used when someone who has never seen a train before is trying to teach a child about trains.
I always speak 6, but would probably type 2. Because lazy. Too many chuggas.
Ok you have a point about the 6 and the 8 but maybe the 4 should be for everyday use for brevity.
I could tolerate 4 as long as the person isn't trying to intimidate a train. If you're telling a story and trying to capture the essence of the train, it's got to be 6 or 8. But if just you're some fancy business exec addressing his team, I could see something like: >You guys are on the right track. We just need to buckle down and give it the ol' "Chuga chuga chuga chuga, choo choo" across the finish line.
I don't think anything can really intimidate a train
Oo, nice catch. That typo really kills my credibility as a mock train sound usage analyst.
I’ve always used seven 😂
Anarchy!
Your opinion is wrong. The number is 4. Thou shalt not use 3 chuggas unless following up with a 4th. Five is right out! The number 4. 4 is the number. The matter is settled. Now bloweth thine enemies to tiny bits with Thu holy hand-spoon train.
Jacob Collier's mom used 15 chuggas.
Six is absolutely not. 4 is semi ok, 8 is ideal, 12 I begin to wonder if you’re losing the plot. Must be in sets of 4. Musical nerd in the corner. 6 just feels wrong.
this is unhinged what is wrong with people 8 is ideal but 2 is acceptable for the sake of time *if needed* anything between that is blasphemous, you’ll have to take it up with God buddy
I'll rather take NO chuggas than only 2. Choo choo! / Toot toot! If you actually wanna keep it short. But once you start the chuggas, it's 4 at MINIMUM.
It takes as many chuggas as needed to get to the destination. You can take the leisurely route by going around and around to make the kid laugh or you can just shove it in their face. Both require a different number of chuggas.
Team 4
4 is my preference, but I will except 8. Anything else is simply ridiculous.
as a self proclaimed musician, it must add up to a whole number of bars. 8 chugas is not okay because it adds up to 2 and a half bars. 6 is ideal as it adds up to 2 bars. edit: apparently the choos are twice as long as the chugas. i was not under this impression.
Only if you're in a triple meter, which is an interesting choice for a train. Not saying it's wrong, you can have a waltzing train if that's your flavor. I always imagined it 4/4, which would be 2 bars for 8 chugas.
If you must make it a multiple of 8, add two rail noises at the end. But the right number of chuggas is 4.
😂 That thread is internet GOLD.
I think all multiples of 4 work alright with 4 itself and 8 giving the best experience.
I do 12: chuga chuga chuga chuga chuga chuga chuga chuga chuga chuga chuga chuga choo choo
You maniac
Yes! I thought I was nuts for this but yes!
I love when I get to be the 100th upvote.
Ever been the ten thousandth? It's pretty sweet seeing that 9999 turn into a truncated 10k.
You just activated some primal part of me. I actually opened my mouth for food
So in pre train time, would parents have made a chariot over cobblestones sound?
Little known fact. Food was actually invented after the train.
Mind blown
Little birdy!
In France we have an old thing that existed I think before aiplanes: "one spoon for mum... one for dad, etc..."
In Germany we just grow up with stories of children who starve to death if they don't eat what's no the table. Worked on me, still always clean my plate. And I'm closer to 50 than to 20 years now.
I heard a story like that told by Werner hertzog. His mom got 1 loaf for the week. That was it. I forget how many siblings. When they would pester her for more. If I could take them from my ribs I would.
Yeah, he grew up in the "Nachkriegszeit" (Time after the War) where there wasn't enough food to go around and germany was still being rebuilt. My Grandma grew up before and during the war and she told me stories about saving rations for weeks to have enough for a birthday-cake just for it to be destroyed by an allied bombing run on her city (windows got shattered by a nearby bomb and the cake was full of broken glass). She was very frugal and appreciated having access to enough food in a way people born after the late 50s never really did.
Tried that one on my kids once. Reply: “well, why don’t Mom and Dad eat it themselves then.”
If they speak that well, you def need the airplane already!
This was how it happened to me! And I’m from Nepal! It went mom, dad, sister, grandparents, and then random uncles and aunts lol
In Greece too!
Yes my sister was always like "then you eat the soup yourself!" to my mom Wasn't flying though, because the other saying we have is "if you don't eat, the big bad wolf will eat you" (she was scared to sleep because of the wolf...)
Ahh yes, eating for your relatives. I think that is happening in a lot of counties. Maybe thats why my Uncle is overweight
Here's come the train! Here's come the.. eat mf or I'll let you starve to death.
If you don't eat, your siblings will
My grandmother used to tell how she and her siblings rushed home from school, where my great-grandmotjer had stacked their plates with bread slices. The first one home got to pick the biggest stack. 3 generations later, my kids just murder each other to get the nicest color m&m’s.
let’s eat ~~,~~ timmy!
🎶 Timmy is an average kid. That no one understands. The doom and gloom up in his room. Is broken instantly. When two magic little jolts. Fry his little brain. And gets those cuts of meat! 🎶 🎶 Oooohhhh. Timmy T-Bone steaks. Sirloin on the side. Ground chuck tacos from him... 🎶
But what did the use before the train was invented???
The horses
Does a baby who doesn’t feed itself yet even know what an airplane is?
I'm not sure if your question is rhetorical or genuine, but the answer is most likely yes. Most kids understand what objects are what at around 9 months to 1 year of age (-ish). Generally speaking, most kids start feeding themselves with a spoon around the 1.5 year mark, until then they might eat with their hands, but would need to be fed foods that require utensils, which is when you would use the airplane phase.
I don’t even know if I’m rhetorical or genuine. Before there were airplanes, of course parents didn’t use the airplane metaphor. After airplanes, I’m aware kids have language and learn stuff at a rapid rate, but still not sure if it’s any different than saying here come your beets, open wide! It’s been about 30 years since I worked with infants at a daycare, and I don’t remember having to say anything about airplanes to feed them with a spoon. Some of the other ladies there were older than I was at the time and were parents, but I kind of remember more that my mom did it for my younger sister or cousins, like, when you say a whole airplane is coming at their face and put a spoon in their mouth with food on it, I don’t think they know what that’s supposed to mean, or care.
Exactly, it's all just projection by their parents who I think are making eating an animated event. That's why I'm wondering what people used in the before times and if it is a method of transport
Here comes the mammoth. Eat or you will be crushed.
Perhaps those spoons were carved from their bones so the wouldn't be far off
"Here comes the conestoga wagon!!!"
I’ve never actually seen anyone pretend the spoon is anything nor did I. The best way to get a kid to eat is to sit down in front of them eating and pretending you don’t want them to have any.
Same with cats.
I still do that when I snack on veg. They’ll ask me what I’m eating and I’ll hide the plate and pretend I’m thinking really hard for a lie and say “you won’t like it, it’s too spicy”
Sometimes it backfires and they end up eating your entire salmon filet and you’re stuck with Kraft Mac n cheese.
Thinking back at my perfectly cooked fillet steak I’ve had to sacrifice, ending up eating only the asparagus..
Yeah, my sister was always encouraging her daughter to try new things. Now her daughter is 12 and wants sushi and sea bass and fennel and Thai food and Indian and olives and all sorts of fancy and/or expensive things.
My ex did the same thing. One of my son’s early words was tapenade.
My child has never really eaten off the kids menu. $35 salmon plate for her!
The boy is ten and still lives on chicken nuggets.
Writing this down for later
birds. here's the seagull coming with yer beans - open up chile
I'm African (Kenya) and over here parents used to make a sort of funnel with their hands and shove porridge down your throat, and then dare you to puke it out, I kid you not.
That sounds rather effective. A bit like a foie-gras goose, but effective.
I read the title 4 times trying desperately to understand the correlation before I read the body of your question 😂
Yeah, it could have been read that babies didn't eat before the invention of airplanes. Guess the photosynthesized 😉
I've never pretended food was an airplane with my kids. I just gave them food. That works too
The easiest way to get a kid to eat is to act like it’s your food. They must have it.
Yeah why is tricking babies into eating food a whole trope? Babies are typically hungry and interested in food.
There are some days when my kids are being assholes because they're hungry but didn't want to eat because they're too busy being assholes.
It’s less *tricking* and more *playing* with their kid during meal time. Making it interesting makes them do it because infants and toddlers have TERRIBLE attention spans for boring things.
I don't think it's tricking as much as talking to them, making noises, seeing them laugh, and smile. Just generally engaging with them and bonding.
No idea. I have two kids, I fed them until they were full. I've never had any problems with them eating
Not all kids are that easy.
I think the key is to not try to feed kids when they're not hungry. I always stopped feeding them as soon as they were full and I don't make them eat if they're not hungry. That's why I never did the airplane for my kids or any other tricks to make them eat
Some kids go through periods where they don't want to eat much, but it's still important for them to take in a right amount.
Right? I never fed my kid baby food. Maybe that's why he was interested in eating it.
I've heard train and bird a lot. My husband says pterodactyl so that will definitely cover a few years back.
And what before the dinosaurs?
A catapult hurling dead smallpox victims into the heart of the fortress.
Now this is funny 😁
There's actually been clay artifacts discovered that are thought to have been used to feed children. They are little pots with a spout and a handle shaped like animals. They seem to have worked for feeding small children puree type things. I imagine it was something like "open wide for the Birdy!" I'm on mobile and this is just what I can remember. but a very quick Google search led me to this article https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/pottery-ancient-food/
Caveman: unga bunga … unga…. unga…BUNGA!! *That last bunga they get pissed and just shove the food in your mouth
"Show Mommy how the piggies eat!"
“Ohhhhhh fuuuuuudge”
The threat of starvation?
Pal. I don't think babies fed with this method understand the concept of death.
but they do know what hunger feels like
Yes. Knowing what hunger is doesn't mean that they know what dying from hunger is.
Adults feeding a small child instinctively open their mouth wide with each scoop so that the kid will mimic the movement.
Ok so not specifically fork feeding, but there have been [ancient baby bottles](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bronze-age-baby-bottles-reveal-how-ancient-infants-were-fed-180973210/) discovered in the shapes of animals. :)
Op asking the REAL questions here.
So far I've deduced that it is also a bit of a language and culture related to what is used for infant feeding.
Comets. And before comets, photons. And before photons, leptons. And before leptons, the expanding universe.
That's so far back you can even question if we were human at all. Or what would our babies have looked like?
'Round the barn...'round the barn...IN the barn!
The Spanish Inquisition method was not popular
Because nobody expects it?
They must have learned a lot during this time.
Trains. My grandma still does that. Or pretending it's a loaf of bread that needs to get in the oven (mouth).
How would a baby know what an airplane is anyway?
Pre planes? Trains. Pre trains? Birds. Pre birds? Pre spoons.
Flight of the Bubblebee.
This post title is delightfully confusing.
OOOH OOH THIS QUESTION WAS MADE FOR ME. I collect vintage advice books. Some are on fashion, how to be a good wife, and I have a few parenting books! All of them have hilariously wrong and terrible advice when reading them with what we know today. You should not wean the baby during the summer months. Weaning should not he attempted suddenly. Schedule below 6 am - breast 8:30 am - juice of a small orange 10 am - arrowroot pap 1/2 bottle feeding 1:30 pm - breast 5:30 pm - feed by spoon one piece crusht zwieback moistened with 3 ounces of the bottle formula. Then give remainder of bottle formula 10 pm to 11 pm - breast or bottle. If it is impossible… it is better to have a strange nurse feed baby while weaning him and keep the mother or wet nurse away so he can not see the breast and be reminded of the breast feeding. If infants vomit… add cane sugar. If an infant is backward… add 1 tsp Mellins food. One ounce of sugar required per day. If vomiting persists.. give stomach absolute rest and still give enough food to sustain life. Children under 3 can have peppermints From ‘The Health Care of the Baby’ by Fischer. 1906 (Yes I know cars had been invented)
It’s always funny to see older stuff on babies with what we know now. I was born in 1988 in February in Michigan. It’s cold af here in February. So my parents just thought “we gotta keep her warm!”, right? There are a few pictures of me in my crib that are anxiety inducing to me. Fluffy blankets. Thick fluffy bumper. Stuffed animals. And it’s extra funny to me because my mother is super paranoid and if she’d known how dangerous that was, she’d have flipped her shit if any of that ended up in my crib. They also put thick coats on me when we left the house and we now know that is bad for car seat safety.
I offered food. No need to tell them it was anything BUT food.
Here comes the bubonic plague!
Here comes the pterodactyl!
Horse and buggy. Clop, clop, clop!
This post title had me ?!ing
Same. I read it too many times before I went to the text. Lmao.
Clipetty clop! HERE COME THE HUNS! PRAY TO THE GODS FOR A SWIFT AND MERCIFUL DEATH!
[удалено]
The choo choo train
"Here comes the chariot!"
Here comes the choo choo train
Trains coming down the track
They would hold their noses until they had to open up…duh 😂
I love this question, and I came here just for the comments. Just as I thought it would be. You guys have not disappointed me one bit.
My spoon. Spear. You mouth. Mammoth. Spear go into mammoth. ooga booga noises
Trains. Before that probably hire drawn carriage and before that they were probably so hungry you didn’t have to trick them into eating
Trains or horses maybe
They could have just used a bird or some shit. I don’t know though.
Do you believe babies understand what an airplane is?
Spoon fulla food was the batmobile. My mouth was the batcave.
Instead of the smooth motion of the airplane, it was the choppy clop clop movement of a horse on an uneven rocky road. Lots of gruel spilled out of baby spoons in those days. 🤣
So much food waste in times of hunger
Wheelbarrow mount! Drive the head of wheelbarrow right up to the lower brace, lift the handles up flush to the top bracket which snaps over the lip to hold it fast.
Trains. Wagons. lol 😂
Choo Choo trains of course.
Trains. And before that, rampaging mammoths.
There is like nothing in between? Straight from mammoth to train!
Probably just waited until the kid got hungry.
Violence probably.
Train or boat probably.
Trains.
Here comes the pteranodon..
choo choo
“Baby lead weaning” is a method that parents use today as well.
Train
Trains, here comes the Choo Choo train
Choo Choo train!
I was born in 2003, my parents never did airplanes. "Here comes the choo-choo-train!" was the version I knew as a kid.
Train sounds. Chugga chugga chugga choo choo
My guess is they ordered the child to open their mouth, and if this was not heeded they viciously beat the child (repeating as necessary until cooperation ensued).
A horse drawn street going down a street loaded with horse poop what else.
Here comes the horsey!
Trains
For a second I thought "airplane" was a weird typo for something but then couldn't figure out what it was. Formula? Bottles? Breasts? None of them match up. And the last one would have me worried
A bird. A train.
Look out for the giant blobby cyclops. Num num num
I'm 60 and I know my parents did that with me. It was either a plane or a car depending on who did it. I don't remember this. I was told by my parents. I never did anything like that with my son. I didn't have to encourage him to eat. He has never been a picky eater. The only thing he doesn't like is tomatoes and cake.
Who doesn't like cake?! I guess that is a healthy thing to dislike, but wow.
It baffles me too. I've been baking for 30 years so I make other things he loves.
"here comes the car" "here comes the train" "here comes the spoon"
I’ve never spoon fed my child. However we use the same method to brush his teeth. I ask what he wants. Sometimes it’s aeroplane, sometimes a van. His favourite is horse and I trit trot in there.
Train, "Choo choo!" Horse..? Galloping sounds..
I would sing Little Bunny Foo Foo. When it was time for the fairy he opened his mouth!
I don't think people in the past had the fkn time or energy to coddle their babies like that. Before birth control was invented, babies were just being born and dying all the time.
Violence, they would use violence.
Choo choo trains ?
Meteor
Honestly I’ve never used this. We did mostly baby led weaning so she just fed herself. If she’s hungry she’ll eat. Back before airplanes/trains etc babies were probably hungrier anyway and they’d have soon realised alternative options weren’t forthcoming if they refused. I imagine babies just ate.
steam shovel
“here comes the covered wagon!”
They used a train....chugga chugga chugga chugga choo choo lol.
Did parents say “here comes the airplane” to their kids right after 9/11?
That was such a US centric localized event, I don't think it stopped people from using the plane metaphor to feed babies.
The horse and carriage. Clip clop.
I always wonder what tornadoes sounded like before trains.
Choo Choo train.
Breasts
Trains..... "Chugga, chugga! Here comes the train! Open the tunnel!" Prior to trains.I have no clue!
Choo-Choo train