Soldier's*Sweeties
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- Apr 3, 2009
They do. My kids are happy, well behaved, well adjusted little people.That nonsense would never fly in my house. I'm sure your kids love it.
...most of the time.
They do. My kids are happy, well behaved, well adjusted little people.That nonsense would never fly in my house. I'm sure your kids love it.
I agree that the death threats and attacks are over the top. The videos broke my heart. I have been following this story since Monday. Clearly some sort of intervention needs to be made.In their latest video, they are saying that most of the videos were fake. That video is called "Family destroyed over false aquisations" (their mispelling). I can't link it.
I don't know what to think. Death threats and attacks by others are awful no matter what the truth is.
I could be wrong but I thought he said he did. I had to pause several times so I may have heard that wrong. I can't bring myself to go back and skim through it though.It all sounds suspicious to me. Someone definitely needs to step in and I don't mean the YouTuber that made a video about the situation. He should have contacted the family and the authorities instead.
They do. My kids are happy, well behaved, well adjusted little people.
...most of the time.
Our whole family is pranksters but we never hurt feelings and would never mentally abuse our children. We're fine, they're fine... Thanks for your concern.
***Maybe I should clarify "pranks" :
Putting a hair tie on the kitchen sprayer so it sprays the next person to turn it on, dumping a cold cup of water on them in the shower... etc.
Our whole family is pranksters but we never hurt feelings and would never mentally abuse our children. We're fine, they're fine... Thanks for your concern.
***Maybe I should clarify "pranks" :
Putting a hair tie on the kitchen sprayer so it sprays the next person to turn it on, dumping a cold cup of water on them in the shower... etc.
That nonsense would never fly in my house. I'm sure your kids love it.
Why would you ever think it was ok giving your kids a hard time by pranking them? I just don't get this line of thinking. Do your children enjoy you giving them a hard time and then saying it's just a joke?
The thing is for the "prank" to work it has to be authentic so most likely this is par for the course as far as treatment of these kids.Let's pretend for a minute, that it wasn't a prank and actually happened. I cannot imagine the consequences in real life if this is supposed to be funny.
In what reality is screaming at the top of your lungs and repeatedly cursing your kids any kind of sane discipline?
Of course, after the backlash, and maybe a little coaching, the kids are "fine".
Common sense is vacant in both parents. But they've made national TV. Whoo. We famous. Perhaps instead of using their kids as the "prank" victims, they just do stupid ignorant not even funny crap to EACHOTHER.
Because sometimes it is OK and yes they can enjoy it. The example given earlier of putting a rubber band on the kitchen sink sprayer is a good one....we haven't done it in our current house because it doesn't have that...but my kids did it to me (with the help of DW) in our last house. I promise you nobody is scarred for life from it. Clearly, there's a line where it becomes abusive, but there's also room for families to have fun and prank each other. My kids favorite show is Americas' Funniest Videos. You see those pranks all the time...they're funny and I doubt anyone was scarred from it. Good clean fun is absolutely OK.
But yeah, there's clearly a line where it becomes just plain wrong, and we all know some parents really shouldn't be parents...or at least need some serious parenting lessons. I'm not a movie buff, but one of my favorite movie lines ever is from the movie Parenthood. Keanu Reeve's character "Todd" said (and I had to Google it to make sure I had it right...and cleaning it up for posting on the DISboard): "You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog. You need a license to drive a car. Heck, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they'll let any rear end-reaming moron to be a father." You could substitute "parent" for "father". It's such a sad but true statement.
I seriously question enjoying being surprise in the shower with a family member dunking cold water over someone's head. I guess we are just stick in the muds but that crap doesn't happen in our family. Where are the boundaries? Mother surprising son in the shower? Father surprising daughter? Brother surprising sister? Anyone surprising anyone who is taking a shower? Oh I can't imagine how hilarious that would be. Anyway, like I said, some obviously enjoy pranking but I would think mostly people grow out of that kind of humour when they are adults.
I seriously question enjoying being surprise in the shower with a family member dunking cold water over someone's head. I guess we are just stick in the muds but that crap doesn't happen in our family. Where are the boundaries? Mother surprising son in the shower? Father surprising daughter? Brother surprising sister? Anyone surprising anyone who is taking a shower? Oh I can't imagine how hilarious that would be. Anyway, like I said, some obviously enjoy pranking but I would think mostly people grow out of that kind of humour when they are adults.
Okay... Lets not turn what I said into something it's not. Give me a break.I seriously question enjoying being surprise in the shower with a family member dunking cold water over someone's head. I guess we are just stick in the muds but that crap doesn't happen in our family. Where are the boundaries? Mother surprising son in the shower? Father surprising daughter? Brother surprising sister? Anyone surprising anyone who is taking a shower? Oh I can't imagine how hilarious that would be. Anyway, like I said, some obviously enjoy pranking but I would think mostly people grow out of that kind of humour when they are adults.
I used the shower example.I don't recall saying anything about going into someones' shower. Maybe you're making reference to some of the videos that show up on AFV. And yeah, I think most of those are fairly funny (though I think some are just boring and not funny, but not for moral reasons). Common sense would typically dictate what is appropriate and fun and what isn't. If you want to carry it out to some extreme, that's fine. Glad that "crap" doesn't happen in your family and if you "outgrow" it then perhaps you're just a much more mature person than I.
I don't like the Halloween ones either. I hate seeing how those kids are crying because their parents said they ate their candy. Intention of all in good fun sure but it still gets me to see the kids reactions and I'm not sitting there laughing because of their reactions.Pathetic. I don't like the "I ate all your Halloween candy" pranks either. It's not ok to be deliberately cruel to your kids....and cussing while yelling at them is definitely not cool.
Ok so my husband likes to scare me though not in a life-threatening holy moly went to far way (some of those couple prank videos we've watched I'm telling him in the most serious voice I've got "do not ever think to do that to me").Our whole family is pranksters but we never hurt feelings and would never mentally abuse our children. We're fine, they're fine... Thanks for your concern.
***Maybe I should clarify "pranks" :
Putting a hair tie on the kitchen sprayer so it sprays the next person to turn it on, dumping a cold cup of water on them in the shower... etc.