Gordon Ramsay Quotes

The way to get to like good food is by learning to cook, which is why I'm for ever banging on about children learning to cook.

It's really great to get your kids involved in the kitchen. Not only will they have an appreciation for food, but their palates will expand.

When kids help cook, even if its just shredding the herbs or stirring the pot, they eat more and they eat better.

The most important thing is to teach children to cook at schools. And not only to cook but to understand about where their food comes from.

It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me.

One reason that we eat processed foods is the decline of home economics. Restarting home economics classes is one of the key things we could do to get this issue moving.

My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our children in the kitchen. We sit down every night for dinner. We're trying to give our kids a sense of what's going into their bodies, and it's also good for family time.

Children aren't being taught to cook or encouraged to try things or told why food is important.

I think it's important to educate kids about food and let them help a little with the cooking and cleaning. That interaction is really important.

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents.

The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned this group of kids into curious, adventurous eaters.

All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are sixty-five million American kids going to bed with no math at all.

Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents.

If kids grow kale, kids eat kale. If they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes. But when none of this is presented to them, if they're not shown how food affects the mind and the body, they blindly eat whatever you put in front of them.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

It's very important that your parents have careers of their own. When the kid becomes the breadwinner of the household, that's when you have problems.

Don't just parent your kids, develop them.

Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, but they were out of the house, out on the porch, talking to neighbors. As far as physical fitness goes, today’s kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren’t outside.

I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against that. I think it's a great life, and yeah, you can lead them in that direction. I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it, they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.

My goal as a parent is to prepare you for the future, not to make you like me.

The child knows only that he engages in play because it is enjoyable. He isn't aware of his need to play--a need which has its source in the pressure of unsolved problems. Nor does he know that his pleasure in playing comes from a deep sense of well-being that is the direct result of feeling in control of things, in contrast to the rest of his life, which is managed by his parents or other adults.

Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.