Monday Morning Child Abuse

Posted on 3 March 2008 by trippenbach

Via Joystiq: a very, very bad thing to do to your children.

Comments? Observations? Reactions? Responses?

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2 Responses to “Monday Morning Child Abuse”

  1. rustedangel, on March 3rd, 2008 at 10:37 am Said:

    Ouch.

    Okay. There are two sides to this. Firstly, that’s appalling. Way to ruin christmas. I mean, it’s not exactly hard to fool little kids, is it? Are these assholes proud of themselves?

    On the other hand, children cause their parents untold enervation. I can’t completely blame them for wanting to get a piece back.

    In the final analysis, though, I don’t like these people. They’re supposed to be adults. The classy move would have been to pull the gag, have a laugh at the kid’s expense, and then have the next gift be an actual console.

  2. tanith6227, on March 3rd, 2008 at 12:35 pm Said:

    I’d heard a story about a child who regularly threw outrageous tantrums whenever they didn’t get what they wanted, and wouldn’t take no for an answer. The story goes that the parents decided to teach their kid a lesson by doing something like this: the kid got a box for something they really wanted, empty except for some junk to give it weight. I don’t know if this is a true story, and if it is, I don’t know if the kid learned anything from it. I can’t honestly say that I have a problem with the idea, though – sometimes tough love is the only kind that works.

    I don’t have sound here at work, so I didn’t hear what the adults had to say – but I gather from the comments at Joystiq that this was not meant to be some form of hard lesson.

    So I’m with Rusty – these folks pretty much ruined Christmas. So you fooled a child – big deal. Kids believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny; tricking them is not exactly hard. Taking advantage of a child’s inherently trusting nature for a cheap laugh is pretty shallow. Children certainly can be aggravating, but I simply don’t think that it’s right for parents to “get a piece back” by laughing at their children’s expense. It just strikes me as being a line that shouldn’t be crossed.

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