5-Year-Old Chef Has His Own Show

Hi What great cooking show you should start your own show

Are you kidding? This is annoying. The kid is a no-talent. All kids are not entertainment material.Ugh.

Are you kidding me? this kid has no talent, this is the stupidest thing I have ever wasted my time on, anybody can prompt someone to dump something in a pot. Let the kid go outside and play with children his own age vs putting him in a kitchen and displaying him to the world like some kind of monkey. These are cute for family videos but that doesn't mean everyone else wants to watch him chop and be "cute".

is this a joke?

stafsp, get a life! Every child I know at that age wants to help mommy or daddy in the kitchen and this is all what growing up and learning are all about. Living in Maryland I've never seen the show but Noggin has a short little cooking show it runs by this little hispanic boy. It's amazing how good he is, but he's aways supervised. I can imagine you're one of these overprotective obsessive compulsive parents that don't let their child get dirty, are at the school every other week complaining about something someone or something did to your little Johnny or Susie and basically won't let your child be a child. Contrary to what the popular belief is now, the most important job of a parent is not to love their child or any warm and fuzzy thing like this, it's to instruct them in the art of living and being a good adult human being. To give them the tools they need to survive in this world and function as a decent contributing member of society. Now all of the other things like love, fun, happiness, etc., are well and good but in the process many parents today forget to teach their kids what they need in adulthood. They turn them into spoiled brats and then the rest of us have to live with the consequences of their actions. Trust me, I've seen it all. For 7 years I owned a store that specialized in certain children's toys and besides the fact I have a degree in Child Psychology, I saw more family structures and dysfunctional families than I ever care to see again in my life. So from now on, let your child help make those mashed potatoes, let them put the frosting on the cupcakes and give them the opportunity to help in the kitchen. If you do, you'll develop a child who is a much better eater and will have a desire to cook in the future.

Montessori schooled children learn cutting, measuring and cooking from very early on. My daughter was 2 when she was making scrambled eggs etc. with us. By age three.........she held her own blow dryer and I never dried her hair again. Kids can learn anything with patience.........makes them better adults as well.

If you start cooking when you're young you learn to avoid most kitchen dangers. He's not playing - it's clear that he's cooking.

I agree, it's clear he's cooking. I'm just saying it's boring. He grated zucchini for almost 5 minutes. That's boring. You can hear his mother in the background prompting him. He's very cute and would be very amusing as a segment on the Food Network or something. And entire half hour show of him stumbling over his words and grating zucchini, well, I would not tune in for that more than once.

Yep, we did shoot it at home. On a hi-8 camera to boot! But I bet you could pull something off like this too, even if your dad isn't a TV producer.

Hello Juliansmom: I am 55 years old and I have found Julian to be an inspiration. I have been staying in SLC, UT with my son since June 2008. My husband passed away 3/05 and then I changed gears from working as a legal assistant to taking a job as a companion for seniors which did not provide adequate hours. Returning to legal seemed out of the question because I felt like I lost my edge. In short, I decided to get away so I came to SLC and decided to pick up my writing which was started in 1999 and put away on a shelf. I have been dabbing at that with little assertiveness. Your son is bound to fire up ambition in young people and give people like me motivation to conquer our stagnations. Oh, and he is joy to watch. (Can't wait to see him on Oprah or Ellen, etc.)

I just saw the cooking video and I was personally quite impressed and entertained!!! I am the Educational Program Director for a new children learning, entertainment and enrichment center here in New Jersey. One of the many enrichment courses we are going to offer is a kids cooking class for children from 2-9 - some with parents and some without. We are even having a rockin chef - complete with guitar - to rock out between the various times of the cooking process to add a bit of fun to the cooking and to keep the momentum going! We have distance learning technology in place in our cooking classes and would love to have Julien visit us via video conferencing and share his "chefs secrets" with other kids , answer some of the kids questions about cooking or even film him cooking a recipe that maybe we would be doing and we can have our kids cook along with him!!! These are just a few ideas but I would love the opportunity to talk with you a bit more on how we might be able to see Julien again and share his enthusiasm for cooking with other kids his age! P.S. As you know kids learn BEST from their own peers and Julien is a great peer model!!!
Please email me at kdolci@clubkiddoo.com or phone me at 973-746-4600 and do check out our website at www.clubkiddoo.com
Thank you for sharing Julien with us!
P.S Having been an elementary school teacher of 5 and 6 year olds for 20 _+ years in both public and private sector, little Julien is gaining sooooo many skills from his math, language, science and more that all come from you and mr. working with him and engaging him in real, meaningful learning experiences so keep up the great work!
Regards,
.Karen Dolci, Ed.D.Educational Program Director
Club Kiddoo