Community Chat

[Melissa86]

Lighten up!!

[Noel7]

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...

[gmkb]

I think it is shameful that adults would make such a cruel video of those children and their Halloween candy.

Teasing is abusive and cruel.

[JeanLouiseFinch]

Mixed feelings here on the topic.  Some teasing can just be playful banter between peers, friends, family, or spouses, but I do think each party needs to be sensitive and careful not to cross the line into an area of personal attacks that they know is, or could be, hurtful to the other party.  Teasing someone about something they struggle with unkind and not funny.  Regarding the video, it's mean of the parents to emotionally crush their children when they are this little and don't know how to handle it.  The parents going on and on about taking the candy are really forcing a reaction and kids are powerless to do anything about it.  Who would want to make their kids cry on purpose and break their trust?  Some of those kids were quite precious in their kind forgiveness.

[bri20]

I think the Halloween bit isn't really funny.  That kind of teasing is cruel. 

When you tease with the intent to get a bad reaction, it's not light hearted and funny.  It's cruel.

Not all teasing is mean though.  We tease each other all the time at our house - it's not cruel or meant to demean or cause an awful reaction.  It's light hearted and meant to be silly.  It never crosses the line to hurt someone's feelings...

[Q4u]

Mean teasing is just not acceptable.... like the ones that buy the fake winner lottery tickets to give for a birthday or Christmas.  Then they film it and send it to AFV.... I've never seen anyone receiving those happy after they find out it was a trick, some look deeply disappointed.

The same with practical jokes.... if everyone doesn't laugh at the practucal joke, it wasn't really funny, and usually the one the joke is perpetrated upon feels awful.

I would put the Halloween candy thing with the children right there with the practical jokes.... the only one finding it funny was Himmel.... I found it mean and would never do that to any child....

[cherry]

I never scared my children  by popping out at them and saying boo either. I have never found this type of behavior anything but mean. Who would try to destroy a childs happiness by mean teasing?

[software]

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

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@cherry wrote:

I don't. I think its  bordering on abuse. This is a link  about children being told their parents ate all of their Halloween candy. Some of the kiddies were mild and mellow, and others were Tasmanian devils, when they were told

I think Jimmy Kimmel needs to go to the naughty chair

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3897804/Jimmy-Kimmel-continues-Halloween-prank-tradition.htm...

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[viva923]

teasing is abuse. I was teased all thru grade and high school. It was awful. My dad would tease me too (weight).  I had really no self esteem in grade and high school. I wanted to feel good about myself but never did

it was not till i was away from my home town ( went to nursing school) the teasing stopped and i began to get a life and feel good about myself.

[Moonchilde]

Jimmy Kimmel has done this for several years. I never have thought it was either funny or teasing. And keep in mind it's not JK who is telling the kids this and filming it, it's the PARENTS. So, it's on the PARENTS, who chose to do this.

There is teasing and there is being deliberately mean. The Halloween candy thing is in NO WAY any sort of gentle, affectionate teasing.

I was actually teased as an adolescent by a step-parent who was an emotionally abusive person - yet the teasing was one thing that was *never* abusive. He did the teasing "right" without being mean. Now if only the rest of my childhood had occurred in that more gentle spirit...