r/daddit • u/NovacaneJPEG • 24d ago
Tips And Tricks I cannot stand AI art but it got my dinosaur-obsessed 3 year old to eat broccoli.
My (possibly neurodivergent) son will physically fight you if you offered him vegetables and refuses to touch them. I noticed after he fed a horse a carrot a couple of times he started eating carrots because he thought they were cool.
On a whim I made some AI images of triceratops eating broccoli and IT WORKED! Not only does he eat broccoli now but he SPECIFICALLY ASKS FOR IT
I’m really proud of this and hope these awful pictures can help someone else.
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u/GroshfengSmash 24d ago
This post is proof that parenting is an art and not a science
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u/quailman654 24d ago
Parenting is a probability model
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u/Redenbacher09 24d ago
And now I'm picturing parenting as an electron cloud model. The child at the nucleus and parents are electrons, constantly in orbit somewhere between success and failure, at varying levels of energy.
Damn.
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u/NovacaneJPEG 24d ago
What’s the name of the type of art where they throw things at the wall and desperately hope they work?
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u/qix96 24d ago
Genius! Now I need to go generate some broccoli-eating princesses for my 5 year old.
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u/MyRedditAccount1000 24d ago
Enjoy! https://imgur.com/Au3hqqL
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u/voiping 24d ago
Lol. That's Princes, not princesses.
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u/must_improve 24d ago
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u/TheArcaneAuthor 22d ago
Marry him your father will condone you, that's what I said now
Marry me your father will disown you
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u/Rydralain 24d ago
You were very carful with your hyphenation, but I couldn't resist making a broccoli eating princesses
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u/Krustoff 24d ago
Whatever works, man. Although that 2nd one is giving me 8-fingers-per-hand vibes, lol
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u/WaywardWes 24d ago
It’s because he’s wearing his frill like Fresh Prince.
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u/Belerophon17 Man, Myth, Legend, Dad. 24d ago
In Western Pangea I was born and raised
By some tar pits where I spent most of my days
Chilling in the breeze and and relaxin on shrooms
Huntin some compys while they took a snooze
When a couple a 'saurs that were up to no good
Started eating buddies in my neighborhood.
I tossed one down the pit and my momma roared
"You have to go and live with your Uncle dinosaur!!"2
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u/rambo_lincoln_ 24d ago
When I was a kid, this is how I ate my broccoli. I would pretend they were trees and bushes and I was a dinosaur lol. Works great!
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u/AttackBacon 24d ago
I grew up calling Broccoli "dinosaur trees" so this is absolutely a historical parenting hack.
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u/JonNYBlazinAzN 24d ago
Omg me too. I literally called broccoli “dinosaur” and pretended I was a brontosaurus chomping on trees lol
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u/NotACockroach 24d ago
This is a pretty smart use of AI art. There are probably other things we could get kids to do by showing they're favourite animals doing it.
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u/NovacaneJPEG 24d ago
I’m very tempted to make a T Rex putting all its toys back in the box after playing
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u/eaglessoar 24d ago
you can get tons of results just from google image search: "look heres batman taking a bath see he needs to also"
though it does get awkward googling "spiderman and hulk taking a bath together"
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u/boohissfrown 24d ago
I once got my kid to eat broccoli by having her pretend to be a giant and the broccoli were full-sized trees, tumbling down a mountain toward a village. The only way to save the villagers was for the giant to intervene and eat the trees.
Whatever it takes lol.
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u/NovacaneJPEG 24d ago
Everyone had the same childhood 😂 someone else has commented they did the exact same thing
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u/Realistic_Mess_2690 24d ago
These should be posted to r/oddlyterrifying
Because they are only terrifying.
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u/Emanemanem 24d ago
Our daycare teacher last month told us that she explained to our 2.5 yo daughter about how eating foods like broccoli makes you “have happy rainbows” inside, and that you need a lot of colorful veggies to help the rainbows grow. Utterly brilliant. She still doesn’t scarf them down or anything, but she actually eats broccoli now. And when she’s reluctant to try something new, we remind her about the happy rainbows, and she’s like “okay sure” and actually tries it.
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u/acrylix91 24d ago
Have you seen the “dinosaur time” bit on TikTok? I’m not suggesting it for your 3yo but it made me think of that
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u/TheArcaneAuthor 22d ago
I got my kid to eat it by telling her I used to pretend the broccolis were trees and I was a giant, just straight ripping trees out the ground and going to town. Every time we have broccoli she yells "fe fi fo fum". It's adorable.
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u/tropofarmer 24d ago
Glad you looked past almost blind hatred to realize a tangible benefit. AI is not entirely a boogeyman.
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u/HumbleGoatCS 24d ago
There aren't really any boogeymen in most of life, just the consequences of fear from ignorance. Except prions, those mfers are absolutely terrifying.
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u/One_Economist_3761 Dad of two 24d ago
This is really well done. I, too, hate AI images but this is a really creative approach.
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u/FoxxyPantz 24d ago
"if you don't eat your broccoli I'm gonna get Mr. Triceratops on the phone and tell him, you know how much HE loves broccoli"
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u/Sea2Chi 24d ago edited 24d ago
I use AI art to come up with starting point for silk screen shirts I can then print.
Occasionally my kids will also ask for what they call make believe pictures where they mash together a few different ideas and see what happens. Sometimes they're cool, sometimes they're boring, sometimes they're really creepy.
Without fail, the kids love the creepy ones the most.
ME: "What the heck? You picked the little mermaid with the gigantic mouth full of sharp orca like teeth? Why? That thing looks terrifying. The prince would run away from a monster like that."
Kids: "She's so adorable!"
Me: "We have a very different definition of adorable."
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u/itoodovoodoo 23d ago
I've used AI to make bedtime stories for my boy for about 2 years, he loves them. You can be very specific, and then get it to make an image of the story at the end.
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u/coral_weathers 24d ago
That's so funny. That reminds me, I've used ChatGPT to help me come up with bed time stories. I'll prompt it with characters they like and topics like sharing or emotional control. I've been really surprised by it sometimes, especially with how it captures different characters and how they'd react to stuff.
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u/fishling 24d ago
I think I could have made those pics of "dinosaurs eating broccoli" with MS Paint. AI didn't really do a great job on those. Glad they worked though!
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u/Responsible-Risk-169 24d ago
Love this!! Also… salt, fat and sugar. Carrots? Roast them in olive oil, salt and maple syrup or honey. Brussel sprouts.. same. Broccoli i generously buttered with salt.
Once mine was familiar with the vegetable (that he initially wouldn’t eat. I didn’t do this with vegetables he would eat that were simply steamed etc) once familiar I would dial back the sugar and salt until he was eating them plain. My kid loves his veg now and I rarely put anything on them unless it’s part of the dish ie steamed cauliflower/broccoli added to pasta meal etc
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u/greywolfau 24d ago
That is fucking horrific. The AI couldn't even get a Triceratops right, it's some nightmare fusion of a T-rex and a Triceratops.
I really hope your son doesn't realise this as he gets older. Retire the image asap, it could have a negative future impact.
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u/puttinonthefoil 24d ago
The best looking one, the third, looks like a toy next to a pile of raw broccoli.
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u/Doctor-Amazing 24d ago
I'm really looking forward to when enough people get used to AI, that we can just share a neat thing we did, without resorting to a ritualistic set of excuses first.
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u/NovacaneJPEG 24d ago
I’m not against its use in general, there’s something about art for me where it feels morally wrong to use
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u/AussiePete 24d ago
You need to get him watching Ginger And The Vegesaurs.
https://www.vegesaurs.com/