Jimmy Kimmel, you suck. (Making kids cry for yuks.)

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@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

I see a big difference between doing this to a kid and doing it to an adult, though.

Awhile ago I was putting my four-year-old to bed, and I was tired and a bit cranky, and she noticed something lying on the floor near the door to our bedroom. “What’s that?” she asked.

I get a little mean when I’m cranky, so I said, “Huh, I wonder if that’s a wolf’s paw!” I acted kind of scared, and said, “Maybe there’s a wolf behind our door. Let’s be quiet!”

She said, “Daddy, there is not!” She knew I was joking. But her eyes got real big.

“Maybe. Maybe there is.”

Her voice got loud at this point, so I relented. Months later, though, she’s still thinking about the wolf that she knew wasn’t there but that MAYBE was there, because that’s how kids’ minds work, and I feel like a real creep for the joke, and I learned something as a dad: don’t fuck with a kid’s mind for your own fun. It’s not fun for them.

PERFECT example!!! My mom inadvertently did this to me when I was a little kid too. I couldn’t have been more than 3 or 4. She was ironing and I sitting on the couch watching a spider crawling in and out of the folds of the curtains. After a few minutes it went into a fold and didn’t come back out again. I asked “where did it go”? And my mom, just meaning to be silly playfully said “it’s on your hand”.

I don’t really remember anything other than being upset after she said that, but my mom says I really completely royally freaked out. And I am terrified of the damned things to this day. Bears? naaah, Moose? yeah, I’m cautious and respectful, but not really afraid. Snakes? naaah. Spiders? even dead ones? GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Little kids just experience things differently.

[pkbites]

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

Of course. I’d say that the child will have no more lasting damage from it than if you lightly slapped the child across the face, just enough to sting, filmed it, and sent it in.

Heh. Some of those nanny shows that used to be on. I’d of loved to have seen videos of a big mean nanny haul off and smack some of those vile brats!
And then beating the living shit out of the stupid parents that made them that way!

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@pkbites

Heh. Some of those nanny shows that used to be on. I’d of loved to have seen videos of a big mean nanny haul off and smack some of those vile brats!
And then beating the living shit out of the stupid parents that made them that way!

I imagine you as an extra in this scene, and your children growing up to be Alex, in sort of a great circle of assholes.