Re: Do you think teasing is fun?

x Hedge · ‎08-18-2016

There is a way to tease with respect, and in the spirit of good fellowship. This wasn't it.

granny me · ‎09-05-2014

Purposely lying and upsetting your child is not funny to me.

HappyDaze · ‎06-13-2012

@software wrote:
I don't care for Kimmel, I quit watching him the night he got in a bubble bath with Beyonce, I think it was her. They were both fully clothed. Not my kind of humor, Jimmy Fallon is way funnier. Anyway, I kind of liked the kids who fought back, not that I approve of that but what about the poor kids who cried or just held it in. You know those kids are in pain, and probaby become serial killers when grown.
When it comes to "teasing", give back as good as you get.
Then teach your kids it's ok to lie???
Lousy bit. Not funny

I've never liked Jimmy Kimmel either. I love Jimmy Fallon!

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

Sometimes teasing is fun and other times it can be cruel. The teaser needs to know when to stop.I grew up the only girl in a family of brothers so I am very accustommed to being teased.They still tease me and we are all senior citizens. My one female cousin - who we grew up very close with - tells them they are sickos, they just agree with her.

On my 50th birthday I had worked nights the night before so I was trying to sleep - they came over and put a sign in the yard "HONK IF YOU THINK 50 IS REALLY OLD" All day while I tried in vain to sleep people drove by honking their horns.

The night of my first wedding they came to the hotel and had a Chiverrie after the reception. The day we closed on our brand new house, after the closing we went over to the house only to find they had "decorated" it with paper carnations and crepe paper, the entire outside of the house. Yes, teasing can be fun and great memories.

september · ‎03-09-2010

If a parent joked with a child and said "guess what. I got hungry and ate your candy", but then quickly followed with...."just kidding!"....that's good natured teasing. But to let it go on and record the child's reaction...that's just mean.

truffle · ‎01-04-2016

The 3 kids who didn't act out but forgave their parents were so sweet. I would hope they were not prepped before the taping though. The other kids were like wild little animals, very sad.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@Noel7 wrote:
Re: teaching kids to be tough, I think it's teaching them they can't trust their parents. Basically it's a lie, and it's making a child upset. What kind of parent does that and then laughs about it? I think we all know what kind...

LIfe is rough. And if you don't teach your kid to take disappointment well, to be able to field 'bad' things that just come out of left field, to look at who is telling them what (come on, how many kids in this filmed situation would really have their parents actually eat all of their candy) and learn to discern who is being 'funny' and teasing, and who might be really being mean/serious, you are not equipping them with much needed life skills.

I only saw a brief clip of this, but lighten up people, this was not the torture and life scarring event many of you wish to believe it is.

The biggest part of a prank being funny and not 'mean' is the lenght of time it carries on. If they let the kid believe it for an hour or a day or a week, it gets out of hand.

The best thing parents could do after a quick little tease/prank like this is to show the child how they reacted, and learn for the future, what they did right (in handling it) or what they might do better next time they are confronted with a similar type situatlon.

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

NO, I'm not one for practical jokes. Some can get very mean.

SahmIam · ‎04-16-2010

No, I don't. I have never understood the behavior of causing someone to be upset ON PURPOSE for your enjoyment. Nor do I care for people who think doing that to someone or watching it happen to someone is an enjoyable act.

Never have, never will.

cherry · ‎03-09-2010

@Mominohio wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
Re: teaching kids to be tough, I think it's teaching them they can't trust their parents. Basically it's a lie, and it's making a child upset. What kind of parent does that and then laughs about it? I think we all know what kind...

LIfe is rough. And if you don't teach your kid to take disappointment well, to be able to field 'bad' things that just come out of left field, to look at who is telling them what (come on, how many kids in this filmed situation would really have their parents actually eat all of their candy) and learn to discern who is being 'funny' and teasing, and who might be really being mean/serious, you are not equipping them with much needed life skills.

I only saw a brief clip of this, but lighten up people, this was not the torture and life scarring event many of you wish to believe it is.

The biggest part of a prank being funny and not 'mean' is the lenght of time it carries on. If they let the kid believe it for an hour or a day or a week, it gets out of hand.

The best thing parents could do after a quick little tease/prank like this is to show the child how they reacted, and learn for the future, what they did right (in handling it) or what they might do better next time they are confronted with a similar type situatlon.

Lighten up? The kids were crying and the parents laughed as the lied to them. I'm glad you weren't my parent. I didn't see one thing funny about any of it. Bullying a tot that can't fight back is sick