Re: Do you think teasing is fun?

PamfromCT · ‎05-22-2014

Wow, it is so sad to see adults engage in this type of behavior. Who gets a kick out of deliberately upsetting a child? Yes, life is tough, but it can never justify trying to deliberately hurt anyone, particularly a child.

SaRina · ‎04-17-2015

@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.

Yes, it's important that children learn to handle disappointment, but this is absolutely not the right manner in which to teach that. Children need to learn from "honest" disappointment -- like failing an exam or having their softball team lose. Sure they may encounter mean-spirited children as they go through school,, but to intentionally set up a mean-spirited prank, as an adult no less, was shameful.

Children as young as were teased in these videos do not have the skills to discern between prankster type teasing and something that is extremely hurtful to them.

CLHS68 · ‎03-23-2010

you people would never have survived in my family. We were able to take the teasing and give it back. No wonder kids no days are such wimps. Some one must protect them from every little thing. We were bullied in school and elsewhere but handled it ourselves. Now they cry & get to stay home and are homeschooled. I hate to think what will happen when these kids get out in the real world. They will have no idea how to get along with others.

mamaslittlepotatoe · ‎04-24-2016

That video broke my heart! A bunch of bully parents! How can they do that to their own children? Those kids are so young and so vulnerable, what a shame!!.....And shame on Jimmy Kimmel! Grow up! (I never cared for him anyway; all the more now)

bri20 · ‎03-10-2016

I'm sure there is some correlation between kids who were teased in their childhoods that grow up to be bullies.

truffle · ‎01-04-2016

Though the parents told the kids it was all a prank, I think it would create trust issues since it happened at such a young age. But, with the candy restored and their bellies happy they may laugh it off.

cherry · ‎03-09-2010

As easy as it was for the parents to do this to their small children, I suspect it wasn't a first for them.They seemed to have no trouble telling the little ones, they ate all their candy and how good it was

If they had any conscience at all they wouldn't have followed the bidding of a cretin like Jimmy Kimmel.They still laughed when their children were in tears

Imadickens · ‎06-15-2016

Teasing is just another word for bullying. Period.

Never underestimate the power of kindness.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

If I told my children when they were little or my grandkids that I ate all of their Halloween candy, they would not believe me. They would know right away that it was a prank.

I have always played around with them trying to trick them with many stories, but they seem to know that no one in our family would do that and call me out on it.

One Easter, my DH ate all of our granddaughters candy she received from the other set of her grandparents by mistake. It was too hot to leave it in the car and our daughter put it into our pantry for safekeeping, and they forgot to take it when they went home.

I had to tell her what happened. She was about five at the time. I remember her saying.

" No big deal. It's OK. " Then she said " Sheesh, PopPop eats everything."

PopPop offered her $ for the candy he ate and she refused to take it.

Watching the videos was heart wrenching. It makes me wonder what happened to families and trust.. and don' t get me started on the children who hit and attacked their parents. What the heck?

I loved Jimmy's daughter. She didn't care and she didn't believe him. All she wanted to know was could she have pancakes.

x Hedge · ‎08-18-2016

When my word-clever father teased me I laughed and enjoyed it, and loved him all the more for it.
When my oldest brother teased me I cried, and said "good riddance" when I was six and he moved out.
Laughter with one, tears with the other.
I was a child, and each one got the reaction they were trying for.