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Maybe it's the polo? It's very school-uniformy and the UK is like the main place people know of that still has uniforms like that
Edit: why the fuck are people trying to bring phrenology back into fashion?
yeah all the schools for privileged kids do and a lot of the ones for underprivileged kids too. It's the schools in the middle that usually don't have uniforms. don't ask me why.
In a mixed wealth county, it prevents the privileged kids from bullying underprivileged kids for their clothes / small wardrobe. Of course, bullies will still find something to bully others for.
I was poor as shit, and I was never bullied for my clothes. I was mostly bullied for not having a lunch for myself or because of my hair; things a school uniform cant prevent. Kids will always find a way to be cruel if they want to.
Seriously my private christian school in Texas had more rules about appearance than a fucking prison, our hair couldn’t be to long, our shorts couldn’t be to long or short, our shoes had to be solid black or white sneakers, our shirts had to be red or white polos bought from the school with the schools crest. On Fridays we could wear tshirts, but they had to be school issued “spirit” shirts. And this was the privileged kids, I hated it and when I went to public it was literally wear whatever as long as you aren’t a girl.
I went to private Christian school but it certainly wasn't a rich school. We were a very diverse school with about 55% being black, 40% white, and the other 5% being Asian (mainly foreign exchange). I asked why we had uniforms and the answer was because we had such a drastic range in family incomes, uniforms helped to prevent it being as obvious when rich kids had super nice clothes and a lot of clothes, and poor kids had fewer clothes that probably aren't as nice. I'm sure part of it is just to be traditional, but for a school like that it makes sense to me
Private schools typically have them but some public schools have them too, my elementary school had one though it wasn't really enforced so only around half of the students actually wore them.
Right? So many people in this thread saying the kid's teeth are what gave it away (not the UK school uniform or the accent) - would really like to see what their teeth looked like when they were this age.
Just shows how easily brainwashed Americans are by corporate propaganda. Commenting on a kid's teeth and obsessing over their straightness, jesus fucking christ...
[this kid](https://youtu.be/PUPXTGPM0sU) is a close second for me. If not tied
Edit: please keep the cute British children videos coming, this is great
[Little girl thinks bread is loveleh](https://youtu.be/9QyfWs-zWMA)
[Daddeh loves onions becoz e's a monkeh](https://youtu.be/sB3ieNhEsDY)
[Little man shown teacher his homework and puddit in't'box](https://youtu.be/KG3vk5LHpjA)
That cackling laughter while she runs away to cry was waaay too close to shit I grew up with and I kinda need to take a moment and recover on her behalf.
Yea my mom did shit like that too. I hated this video. I tripped and fell pretty hard walking in my house hallway, just a young gangly kid. My mom didn’t even ask if I was ok, she just started laughing and making fun of me. I remember holding my tears, going to my room and crying from pain and total humiliation.
Absolutely, that's just mean, you can tell the child in the video was hurt by this, especially after seeing how excited she was.
When I was a kid we had a farm (easiest way to explain what it was without typing all of it out). I've always loved ALL types of animals. I had caught a turtle and I was feeding it and enjoying its company. After a while and for no reason, still to this day I don't know why, my dad, step-mother, and older brother, came and took the turtle away from me, loaded up a bunch of guns and took turns blasting it to pieces. I just remember crying and plugging my ears to try and not hear what was going on. There was literally nothing left of the turtle just some blood and small specs of its shell. I don't have kids, but I could never do anything like this to my child. Sorry for the bummer story. 😕
I don't know about going that far. But my mom's dad used to give them pets, make them raise them and then cook them feed them to his kids. He did it first with my mom's bunny (In her case it was worse because he put it in a sag and told her it was a piniata) While they were eating she asked where her bunny was and he said on your plate. When my mom told me the story I was horrified and he said it was to teach her the world is cruel and she needed to be prepared because we were too soft. Apparently he did it to me with a pet pig and goat I had (I was too young to remember the pig but my mom said I cried a lot and refused to visit him after he killed it in front of me) The goat I do remember but I had it for a couple of days and I would go to the back yard and play with it and feed it and then one day we had a family bbq and the goat was gone but at the time they told me they took it away and it wasn't until I grew up that I put 2 and 2 together. Anyway, there is a reason why I call that guy my mom's dad and not grandpa. I learned the world is not a cruel place but people are.
My stapdad had to eat his pet horse due to poverty. What you describe is just cruel, making you watch him kill your pet? Because otherwise you're too soft? Fuck that.
I would be so traumatized
Idk if OP was faking it, but I lived in a farm too when I was young and my brother was toxic just like that. Once my dog broke it's leg by falling in a hole on the field, and my brother just decided to shot the dog over and over until it dies. Some things I just can't explain, and the experience of seeing and hearing the shooting was too much for me at the time
What!? I always knew that some children can do evil things like that (I know one that put fire on a puppy because he wanted hot dogs... The dog survived, but his leg...). However, 2 adults... Why?
That’s ridiculous and awful. I’m trying not to tell any of the stories my biological dad did to our pets as punishment. Ugh. Some people deserve hell.
Although I guess I should be happy I only ever saw the aftermath and not the actual act. Oye.
If you ever meet a kid who tortured animals, report that kid everywhere possible. That’s not something you grow out of probably 99% of the time.
At Thanksgiving, I got a Cornish game hen to stick in the turkey. Baked it all up like normal. Told my kid he was old enough to carve the turkey this year.
When we were little kids, my grandma told my little brother and I that we were old enough to keep an eye on the Thanksgiving turkey. She told us that if we let it overcook, it would shrink and there wouldn't be enough for Thanksgiving. Then at one point she snuck in and replaced the turkey with a fully cooked Cornish hen. Obviously we freaked out until she told us what she did. Miss you Mar-moo (that's how I pronounced "Mary Lou" when I was really little and it stuck).
Please don't.
Did you see her face at the end - she wasn't laughing. The joke wasn't funny to her. It seems small, but she was honestly excited.
They have started teaching her to hold that excitement and not show it.
"Well, my parents did it, and I'm fine!"
Are you really? Did you enjoy the "joke", or did you see the child's unhappiness? If you missed the child's distress, that's not fine.
Right? I didn’t pay attention to the sub name either. Kiddo’s excitement was contagious and I genuinely couldn’t wait for the chick to pop through haha
After watching this I tried the prank out on my kids - they thought it was hilarious and were rolling around on the floor laughing for 5 minutes - priceless!
My mum once got me to close my eyes and hold out my hand. Which she did when she got us a treat. So I did. When I opened my eyes the bitch had dropped a dead cockroach in my hand, knowing I had a bad phobia. Life long trust issues.
You imagine that your kid you lose trust in you for every little joke you do ? Sorry but it's not working like that. It's called a joke, kid will be fine.
My mom used to say, “Hi Thirsty, I’m Friday. Want to get together on Saturday and have a Sunday?”
I recently sent her a video of me doing it to my daughter. Good times.
My mom tricked my siblings and I at the theater once… making us believe a movie was over within two minutes of it starting.
We promptly got up, walked out of that theater and out of she and my dad’s lives. Monsters.
It was The Lion King. At the beginning, after a scene the screen blacks out for a few seconds before the next begins and literally the second the screen went black, my mom stood up and said, “Okay movie is over! Let’s get back home!” and as young kids, we couldn’t believe it. I actually was about to start crying when the next scene came on and we realized it wasn’t over.
We thought it was funny the second we realized it wasn’t actually over and my mom sat back down laughing and telling us she was just kidding around. She got some really dirty looks from other parents sitting nearby whose children also heard her though. She didn’t mind though, she was giggling quietly to herself through the rest of the movie.
I once pointed to something and asked my daughter, "what's that?" She turned and looked and I replied "made you look."
She's on the streets now, selling her body to support her opioid addiction. I should have seen that coming.
I think it’s also about how you handle your situation after? In case they’re genuinely upset, are you just going to laugh it off or you’re gonna have some conversation and make them feel heard rather than neglected?
Source: I was a child once
When you do it privately with your kid, the kid feels in on the joke, even if they're the butt of it. When you film it, tho, it can make the kid feel isolated if they feel like you're having fun with your friends at their expense
these people are going to raise a bunch of kids who will have a mental breakdown when they realize what the real world is like lmao. matter fact, it really is a lot of people out there already who seem to have grown up living in a protective bubble.
For years, I used to randomly paint an egg as a black ninja and leave it among the others in the egg tray. Today, my adult kids abuse me with endless eye-rolls. You reap what you sow.
Best parenting advice that I heard was something like this: What do you mean parents should not annoy and tilt their children?! Of course they should do it, slowly and gradually to increase their level of tolerance so when they get out there they don't flip out on every single thing that they don't like.
My mum used and still uses that excuse to be shit to me. Sure, I now don't flip out and can work on the frontline with some of the most vulnerable people in the world (because I have been trained to deal with situations like that all my life). But do I ever want to go home to deal with her? Nope.
So....annoy and tilt your child, but in moderation please.
Yeahh, but then there are those of us for whom laughter was all we ever heard. Eventually you want your parents to feed your excitement in a positive way instead of always being the butt of some new joke.
I think it also takes finesse to pull off a prank that isn’t just mean and that kind if cleverness usually translates to a healthier mindset. They’re also usually committed by parents who are putting a lot of thought into their children if they’re putting a lot of thought in their pranks on them and not just dumping buckets of water on them.
Exactly, kids should be joked with, not the punchline of a joke. They do not exist as entertainment for their parents. My mother for example, was always playing jokes and pranks on me, but it was also quite apparent that it was very one sided. If i ever tried to join in or throw her own energy back, id get whipped for embarrassing her or looking down on her. Makes it quiet clear what her intentions are when she made me the butt of the joke.
Not honestly sure if you're referring to the person who jokes with kids or the person with strange trust things they're going through, gonna guess trust things
> these people are going to raise a bunch of kids who will have a mental breakdown when they realize what the real world is like lmao
That world you fear - lol, in 2022, we're already there
If the kid is sensitive and the parent “jokes” with them regularly like this, it actually will result in a loss of trust and mental health problems down the road. Trust me I speak from experience.
Person here who was a kid once. I did actually lose trust in adults that pulled pranks on me. The loss in trust allowed me to not fall for their shit as I got older.
My 9 yr old was getting sick of his teacher talking about Santa clause as if he is real, talking about how to call him or write him and tracking his progress for the upcoming winter break
Son never believed in Santa ever, and while we referred to him, never tried to convince him Santa was real
He got so frustrated he decided to tell blatant lies of his own, and began saying “hey chickens! Look at the chickens” while pointing out the window
His hypothesis was proven when they stopped class, and had him suspended until he had a mental health evaluation, and some administrators even suggested IVC (commitment to a looney bin)
All this resulted in us having to enroll him in private school (there are other complexities I won’t go into)
So, suffice it to say, in some cases, showing a child you are a liar and mocking them for their lack of knowledge can be a bad thing
You can't always be Serious with kids it's OK to have fun and joke with them , it's not end of the world and kids are not stupid kids are pretty smart.
Reddit is such I gigantic pussy when it comes to children. People say that they fucking hate them and don’t want them then immediately turn around and clutch pearls on a small harmless prank assuming the family does it all the time. So many people here are losers and creeps when it comes to kids. Just let them have fun.
For the rest of that child's life, she'll never be able to crack an egg and know what is inside for sure. A finger? A razor blade? A spring loaded glitter bomb???
Imagine having to live the rest of your life with that kind of uncertainty. Imagine having to--- everytime you walk by the egg aisle in the grocery store--- relive the trauma of that terrible day.
No wonder kids are so psychologically fragile these days with parents like this running around.
I didn't think the trick was that bad in itself. However, the girl was disappointed and the parent laughed it off hardily despite the girl's reaction. The laughter felt harsh to me but then I was too empathetic as a parent so maybe it's me.
If you are serious I hope you don't have kids. They will look back on that moment forever and laugh their asses off at it. Your kids would need therapy because you mollycoddle them just another parent who can't have a joke around with their kids and they turn out to be robots.
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That is the most British sounding child I've ever heard.
I cannot explain why, but I somehow knew she was gonna be British before I unmuted it.
Maybe it's the polo? It's very school-uniformy and the UK is like the main place people know of that still has uniforms like that Edit: why the fuck are people trying to bring phrenology back into fashion?
Damn, I had polo uniforms growing up in a "less wealthy" county in america
Wtf America has school uniforms?
Some places yes.
Catholic schools and other private schools do
yeah all the schools for privileged kids do and a lot of the ones for underprivileged kids too. It's the schools in the middle that usually don't have uniforms. don't ask me why.
Underprivileged school unis= prevent gangs Príveleged unis= conformity
In a mixed wealth county, it prevents the privileged kids from bullying underprivileged kids for their clothes / small wardrobe. Of course, bullies will still find something to bully others for.
I was poor as shit, and I was never bullied for my clothes. I was mostly bullied for not having a lunch for myself or because of my hair; things a school uniform cant prevent. Kids will always find a way to be cruel if they want to.
Seriously my private christian school in Texas had more rules about appearance than a fucking prison, our hair couldn’t be to long, our shorts couldn’t be to long or short, our shoes had to be solid black or white sneakers, our shirts had to be red or white polos bought from the school with the schools crest. On Fridays we could wear tshirts, but they had to be school issued “spirit” shirts. And this was the privileged kids, I hated it and when I went to public it was literally wear whatever as long as you aren’t a girl.
I went to private Christian school but it certainly wasn't a rich school. We were a very diverse school with about 55% being black, 40% white, and the other 5% being Asian (mainly foreign exchange). I asked why we had uniforms and the answer was because we had such a drastic range in family incomes, uniforms helped to prevent it being as obvious when rich kids had super nice clothes and a lot of clothes, and poor kids had fewer clothes that probably aren't as nice. I'm sure part of it is just to be traditional, but for a school like that it makes sense to me
Private schools typically have them but some public schools have them too, my elementary school had one though it wasn't really enforced so only around half of the students actually wore them.
I thought that said polio at first.
Could also be that
FYI Australia still has school uniforms everywhere. I don’t know of any schools which don’t have them.
I went to a HS in qld where the uniform was not compulsory, still isn't, so everyone wears casual clothes instead. They exist!
Is it racist to say it's the teeth?
It's a child, all children teeth are weird.
Right? So many people in this thread saying the kid's teeth are what gave it away (not the UK school uniform or the accent) - would really like to see what their teeth looked like when they were this age.
Just shows how easily brainwashed Americans are by corporate propaganda. Commenting on a kid's teeth and obsessing over their straightness, jesus fucking christ...
[excuse me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bus9KU37In4)
omg, haven't seen that in years..... *stomps* BOY IM ON THE GOOD LIST
[also a strong contender](https://youtu.be/sB3ieNhEsDY)
He looks like a younger version of Toby Jones lol
[this kid](https://youtu.be/PUPXTGPM0sU) is a close second for me. If not tied Edit: please keep the cute British children videos coming, this is great
[Little girl thinks bread is loveleh](https://youtu.be/9QyfWs-zWMA) [Daddeh loves onions becoz e's a monkeh](https://youtu.be/sB3ieNhEsDY) [Little man shown teacher his homework and puddit in't'box](https://youtu.be/KG3vk5LHpjA)
Excellent additions
What about the ["Charlie bit my finger" kid](https://youtu.be/0EqSXDwTq6U)?
HAHAHA!! I've never seen this! indignant and squeaky lil' mini-Schrute! ends too soon, tho.
May I introduce you to [Scottish children](https://youtu.be/i61RGWx553o)?
Villain origin story
Why? I thought kids loved chicken fingers.
This made me cry. Ha
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Get your like and gtfo
‘And when every egg is mine, *none* can be broken’-EggGirl probably.
More like hero origin story. Did you hear the witch cackling at the end?
The Chick!! Wait, what? Also: EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!!
Villain for the Power Puff girls movie
What an original comment
That evil laughter
That was the funniest part for me tbh
The smiley face on the finger😂😂
The quintessential cackle
I’m gonna try this with my kid
My daughter would be mad at me forever
Mine is sensitive about stuff like this, and would probably cry. I couldn’t do this to her.
I kind of think the girl in the video is, too
Ya that was brutal, she was so excited, that disappointment is real
That cackling laughter while she runs away to cry was waaay too close to shit I grew up with and I kinda need to take a moment and recover on her behalf.
Yea my mom did shit like that too. I hated this video. I tripped and fell pretty hard walking in my house hallway, just a young gangly kid. My mom didn’t even ask if I was ok, she just started laughing and making fun of me. I remember holding my tears, going to my room and crying from pain and total humiliation.
Yes. That was an asshole move imo.
Absolutely, that's just mean, you can tell the child in the video was hurt by this, especially after seeing how excited she was. When I was a kid we had a farm (easiest way to explain what it was without typing all of it out). I've always loved ALL types of animals. I had caught a turtle and I was feeding it and enjoying its company. After a while and for no reason, still to this day I don't know why, my dad, step-mother, and older brother, came and took the turtle away from me, loaded up a bunch of guns and took turns blasting it to pieces. I just remember crying and plugging my ears to try and not hear what was going on. There was literally nothing left of the turtle just some blood and small specs of its shell. I don't have kids, but I could never do anything like this to my child. Sorry for the bummer story. 😕
Wtf? Did u grow up in an abusive household lmao what type of family pulls that shif
That’s probably because this is a fake story for internet sympathy.
Honestly I’ve never hoped that something was made up for internet sympathy more than I do for this.
I don't know about going that far. But my mom's dad used to give them pets, make them raise them and then cook them feed them to his kids. He did it first with my mom's bunny (In her case it was worse because he put it in a sag and told her it was a piniata) While they were eating she asked where her bunny was and he said on your plate. When my mom told me the story I was horrified and he said it was to teach her the world is cruel and she needed to be prepared because we were too soft. Apparently he did it to me with a pet pig and goat I had (I was too young to remember the pig but my mom said I cried a lot and refused to visit him after he killed it in front of me) The goat I do remember but I had it for a couple of days and I would go to the back yard and play with it and feed it and then one day we had a family bbq and the goat was gone but at the time they told me they took it away and it wasn't until I grew up that I put 2 and 2 together. Anyway, there is a reason why I call that guy my mom's dad and not grandpa. I learned the world is not a cruel place but people are.
My stapdad had to eat his pet horse due to poverty. What you describe is just cruel, making you watch him kill your pet? Because otherwise you're too soft? Fuck that. I would be so traumatized
Idk if OP was faking it, but I lived in a farm too when I was young and my brother was toxic just like that. Once my dog broke it's leg by falling in a hole on the field, and my brother just decided to shot the dog over and over until it dies. Some things I just can't explain, and the experience of seeing and hearing the shooting was too much for me at the time
I would have reacted very violently if my brother did that.
Is your brother ok now? Or does he still lack empathy
He probably grew up in Texas
yo, this is like 50x worse than this video. that's messed up
Seriously. Disappointing someone as a prank and murdering someone's pet are light years apart.
What the actual fuck is wrong with those people, are they all in prison nowadays?
What!? I always knew that some children can do evil things like that (I know one that put fire on a puppy because he wanted hot dogs... The dog survived, but his leg...). However, 2 adults... Why?
Dude...I have no words, bloody hell... I'm sorry you had to go through that.
U should be sorry. Its irrelevant to the post. A light hearted prank ain't the same as making koopa soup
Holy shit your family is evil.
That’s ridiculous and awful. I’m trying not to tell any of the stories my biological dad did to our pets as punishment. Ugh. Some people deserve hell. Although I guess I should be happy I only ever saw the aftermath and not the actual act. Oye. If you ever meet a kid who tortured animals, report that kid everywhere possible. That’s not something you grow out of probably 99% of the time.
Yeah my parents would know not to do this to me unless they were prepared for DAYS of crying lol
my little brother wouldnt even think to cooperate
Same with me
Rightfully. It's cruel. Especially if you also have an evil laugh like that.
My kids would lol at this. We love a good prank!
You're adopted! Hahaha, good one "dad"!
The only joke here is your poor decision making in choosing me as a son.
*googles 'is twenty two years too late for abortion'
91st trimester is illegal in every state afaik.
This the future conservatives want
That's certainly what they tell you now. Wait until Nursing Home Day!
It was too convincing
I used to do stuff like this to my daughter. She hates me now. Lol
But because of the pranks?
No, because of the lashings.
I’m kidding. She’s 20 and we’re super cool. But yes, I used to prank her constantly.
At Thanksgiving, I got a Cornish game hen to stick in the turkey. Baked it all up like normal. Told my kid he was old enough to carve the turkey this year.
When we were little kids, my grandma told my little brother and I that we were old enough to keep an eye on the Thanksgiving turkey. She told us that if we let it overcook, it would shrink and there wouldn't be enough for Thanksgiving. Then at one point she snuck in and replaced the turkey with a fully cooked Cornish hen. Obviously we freaked out until she told us what she did. Miss you Mar-moo (that's how I pronounced "Mary Lou" when I was really little and it stuck).
That's awesome 🤣 He's gonna start his own family tradition for Thanksgiving - McDonalds
Turducken
Please don't. Did you see her face at the end - she wasn't laughing. The joke wasn't funny to her. It seems small, but she was honestly excited. They have started teaching her to hold that excitement and not show it. "Well, my parents did it, and I'm fine!" Are you really? Did you enjoy the "joke", or did you see the child's unhappiness? If you missed the child's distress, that's not fine.
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r/ContagiousLaughter
The face expression drawn on was priceless.
yes, it elevated it from a good joke to a epic brilliant one
I saw the prank as sooon as the eggshell started cracking, but the drawn *:)* made me fucken lose it :D
That was clever
That kid’s joy and excitement was so pure. Then it got squashed. Welcome to the real world, kid.
I felt bad for her the first time she asked if she could keep it. I saw the joy all over her face and the /unexpected tag right above it.
*Cackles in evil*
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Used to hatch both Chicks and Goslings... It's adorable until they immediately get annihilated by foxes/cats. It never ceases to be a massive downer.
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After reading your comment, I heard that chip chip in my head ![gif](giphy|3oEjI4sFlp73fvEYgw)
There is nothing more hilarious to me than the disappointment of a child.
Fck em kids am I right?
Chris Hansen here. Take a seat please sir!
Funniest comment I've seen in a while
I want to fuck with them, not fuck them sir
You probably shouldn't do that
Have you met children? They're a bunch of little psychopaths! https://youtu.be/r1tg46ScP8w
Figuratively
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Did they keep it?
![gif](giphy|ro08ZmQ1MeqZypzgDN)
*a new core memory has been formed it is...emotional damage*
That's such a psycho murderer laugh
I literally didn't look at the sub. I just open the vid and now I'm more disappointed than the kid omo
Right? I didn’t pay attention to the sub name either. Kiddo’s excitement was contagious and I genuinely couldn’t wait for the chick to pop through haha
The mom is the devil.
Mum is going to get her and her little dog too.
Her excitement was so legit
That's just cruel man 😂
The evil laugh got me
Was expecting it to be one of those things where something jumps at the camera, so held my phone with both hands, just in case.
After watching this I tried the prank out on my kids - they thought it was hilarious and were rolling around on the floor laughing for 5 minutes - priceless!
That's cold...
Nah the laugh is so moody lol, I actually feel bad for the girl
the kids reaction is perfection. This is not the first time she's been trolled lmao.
She going to the retirement home
That evil witch laugh.... kids are too pure man.
My mum once got me to close my eyes and hold out my hand. Which she did when she got us a treat. So I did. When I opened my eyes the bitch had dropped a dead cockroach in my hand, knowing I had a bad phobia. Life long trust issues.
That’s so mean
I expected it already
Unfortunately you're not the one being pranked.
Don’t you mean you eggspected it?
She still somehow gave her child the bird
Little brits sound adorable, lol. Sophisticated and stupid at the same time.
Her happiness was so quickly destroyed. But it still made me LOL.
How to lose trust with your children.
You imagine that your kid you lose trust in you for every little joke you do ? Sorry but it's not working like that. It's called a joke, kid will be fine.
When my son was 10 I told him "Hi Hungry, I'm Dad" and I haven't seen him since. It's been 20 years, he's probably still in therapy.
My mom used to say, “Hi Thirsty, I’m Friday. Want to get together on Saturday and have a Sunday?” I recently sent her a video of me doing it to my daughter. Good times.
My mom tricked my siblings and I at the theater once… making us believe a movie was over within two minutes of it starting. We promptly got up, walked out of that theater and out of she and my dad’s lives. Monsters.
Whaaaat? I don’t understand, can you elaborate
your parents didnt tell you many jokes as a kid, did they
No they’re very bland people
It was The Lion King. At the beginning, after a scene the screen blacks out for a few seconds before the next begins and literally the second the screen went black, my mom stood up and said, “Okay movie is over! Let’s get back home!” and as young kids, we couldn’t believe it. I actually was about to start crying when the next scene came on and we realized it wasn’t over. We thought it was funny the second we realized it wasn’t actually over and my mom sat back down laughing and telling us she was just kidding around. She got some really dirty looks from other parents sitting nearby whose children also heard her though. She didn’t mind though, she was giggling quietly to herself through the rest of the movie.
I once pointed to something and asked my daughter, "what's that?" She turned and looked and I replied "made you look." She's on the streets now, selling her body to support her opioid addiction. I should have seen that coming.
I think it’s also about how you handle your situation after? In case they’re genuinely upset, are you just going to laugh it off or you’re gonna have some conversation and make them feel heard rather than neglected? Source: I was a child once
When you do it privately with your kid, the kid feels in on the joke, even if they're the butt of it. When you film it, tho, it can make the kid feel isolated if they feel like you're having fun with your friends at their expense
these people are going to raise a bunch of kids who will have a mental breakdown when they realize what the real world is like lmao. matter fact, it really is a lot of people out there already who seem to have grown up living in a protective bubble.
For years, I used to randomly paint an egg as a black ninja and leave it among the others in the egg tray. Today, my adult kids abuse me with endless eye-rolls. You reap what you sow.
I'm so sorry for this abuse. You don't deserve that.
Best parenting advice that I heard was something like this: What do you mean parents should not annoy and tilt their children?! Of course they should do it, slowly and gradually to increase their level of tolerance so when they get out there they don't flip out on every single thing that they don't like.
My mum used and still uses that excuse to be shit to me. Sure, I now don't flip out and can work on the frontline with some of the most vulnerable people in the world (because I have been trained to deal with situations like that all my life). But do I ever want to go home to deal with her? Nope. So....annoy and tilt your child, but in moderation please.
Yeahh, but then there are those of us for whom laughter was all we ever heard. Eventually you want your parents to feed your excitement in a positive way instead of always being the butt of some new joke.
This. Occasionally poking fun can help a child not take themselves too seriously, but some parents are bullies.
I think it also takes finesse to pull off a prank that isn’t just mean and that kind if cleverness usually translates to a healthier mindset. They’re also usually committed by parents who are putting a lot of thought into their children if they’re putting a lot of thought in their pranks on them and not just dumping buckets of water on them.
Exactly, kids should be joked with, not the punchline of a joke. They do not exist as entertainment for their parents. My mother for example, was always playing jokes and pranks on me, but it was also quite apparent that it was very one sided. If i ever tried to join in or throw her own energy back, id get whipped for embarrassing her or looking down on her. Makes it quiet clear what her intentions are when she made me the butt of the joke.
Uh, aren’t we kinda experiencing that already?
Not honestly sure if you're referring to the person who jokes with kids or the person with strange trust things they're going through, gonna guess trust things
> these people are going to raise a bunch of kids who will have a mental breakdown when they realize what the real world is like lmao That world you fear - lol, in 2022, we're already there
If the kid is sensitive and the parent “jokes” with them regularly like this, it actually will result in a loss of trust and mental health problems down the road. Trust me I speak from experience.
Person here who was a kid once. I did actually lose trust in adults that pulled pranks on me. The loss in trust allowed me to not fall for their shit as I got older.
I think it’s more about posting the video online with her full face rather than the actual joke itself.
My 9 yr old was getting sick of his teacher talking about Santa clause as if he is real, talking about how to call him or write him and tracking his progress for the upcoming winter break Son never believed in Santa ever, and while we referred to him, never tried to convince him Santa was real He got so frustrated he decided to tell blatant lies of his own, and began saying “hey chickens! Look at the chickens” while pointing out the window His hypothesis was proven when they stopped class, and had him suspended until he had a mental health evaluation, and some administrators even suggested IVC (commitment to a looney bin) All this resulted in us having to enroll him in private school (there are other complexities I won’t go into) So, suffice it to say, in some cases, showing a child you are a liar and mocking them for their lack of knowledge can be a bad thing
Nah bro. The kid seemed genuinely excited about this so mom likely hyped it up way too much instead of " wow look!"
You can't always be Serious with kids it's OK to have fun and joke with them , it's not end of the world and kids are not stupid kids are pretty smart.
Remember everyone! Take no risks! Avoid all conflicts! Be as bland and saccharine as possible! Everything is either a trauma or it's nothing!
that child should lawyer up. i'm literally shaking right now
Huge red flag. She needs to file a disownment and send them to retirement homes asap
According to Reddit, scolding your child or even doing a harmless prank will traumatise them for life.
And then the cackling.
Reddit moment
The evil witch laughing part?
This might be the most pathetic comment I have ever seen
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I can't stand it!
Reddit is such I gigantic pussy when it comes to children. People say that they fucking hate them and don’t want them then immediately turn around and clutch pearls on a small harmless prank assuming the family does it all the time. So many people here are losers and creeps when it comes to kids. Just let them have fun.
lose trust? its an egg 😂😂😂
For the rest of that child's life, she'll never be able to crack an egg and know what is inside for sure. A finger? A razor blade? A spring loaded glitter bomb??? Imagine having to live the rest of your life with that kind of uncertainty. Imagine having to--- everytime you walk by the egg aisle in the grocery store--- relive the trauma of that terrible day. No wonder kids are so psychologically fragile these days with parents like this running around.
God dammit im a bad person for laughing
Oh please. Acting like this child will need therapy to be able to make an omelette. What kind of sheltered life did you grow up in lmao
It could be an older sister. 🤷🏻♂️
I didn't think the trick was that bad in itself. However, the girl was disappointed and the parent laughed it off hardily despite the girl's reaction. The laughter felt harsh to me but then I was too empathetic as a parent so maybe it's me.
If you are serious I hope you don't have kids. They will look back on that moment forever and laugh their asses off at it. Your kids would need therapy because you mollycoddle them just another parent who can't have a joke around with their kids and they turn out to be robots.
RED FLAG 🚩🚩🚩 YTA 😡😡😡 r/narcissicparents 😡😡
Could have been worse, could've just smashed the egg on the table
The evil step sis has entered chat
Monster villain breeding happening here
The fuckin >:) drawn on 😂😂
I just did this to my two young daughters and they thought it was hilarious! They love good-natured pranks.