# Now THATS what i call parenting **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472 "2006-05-04T23:39:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/21 "2006-05-06T05:46:49Z")
And I swear I can spell _inaccurately_, really… ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/22 "2006-05-06T06:09:10Z")
I don’t know, I have to admit watching the video I laughed. Though I wouldn’t _purposely bait_ my own kid to watch something like that, if he came across it on his own and I witnessed it, I’d have the same reaction. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/23 "2006-05-06T17:39:38Z")
It looks like the bitch set him up… the kids face is all wonder and amazement as he stares at the screen. He was probably told that it was a magic eye painting or something. Poor kid. I can only imagine the sleepless nights hes had since… I saw my first screamer about a year ago, and Ive been cautious of every email Ive opened since. Talk about a burnt child… ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/24 "2006-05-06T19:24:31Z")
Consider me a heartless bastard. I agree that the actions of the person taping him are questionable, but I couldn’t help laughing at it. Just look at him, so focused, so engrossed, and then BAM! LOL. It becomes a little disturbing when he clings to the person’s leg and begins sobbing. Especially since the person taping it makes sure to get the camera right in the kid’s face. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/25 "2006-05-07T05:25:33Z")
You think that is good parenting? [I think this is a helluva lot better.](http://media.putfile.com/Badparents) (the video is work safe, but the links on that page are probably NSFW). ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/26 "2006-05-07T08:09:52Z")
I’m all for sick pranks, but the kid seemed a little…young, for that kind of thing. Personally, I’d wait until my kid was old enough to yell “Oh, you ASSHOLE!” rather than breaking down sobbing, before pulling that kind of thing.\* \*Of course, these things are relative. There are probably 6 year olds who could handle it with good humor, and 19 year olds who’d get PTSD. It’s all about correctly judging character, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/27 "2006-05-07T08:23:17Z")
Yeesh! Poor kid. What’s really disturbing is the woman kept filming, and _laughing_, as her son cried. How old could that kid be? Six?? And I’ll bet that woman brags about what a wonderful parent she is, too. :eek: > [@Lakai](#): > > You think that is good parenting? [I think this is a helluva lot better.](http://media.putfile.com/Badparents) HA!! Now THAT one’s funny!!! ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/28 "2006-05-07T10:49:08Z")
> [@kawaiitentaclebeast](#): > > My mom, knowing that I was rather afraid of the dark, would lock me in the bathroom and turn off the light for 5 min or so as punishment. I don’t recall it too well but according to my mom I went back and forth between howling and sobbing for the whole time, every time, **sometimes clawing and pounding at the door.** Bolding mine. Ummmmm…You laugh at this in later life? The family laughs at this in later life? …wow ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/29 "2006-05-07T10:53:16Z")
That was truly disgusting. Anybody who would pull such a stunt–or who thinks its funny–would automatically be on my “shitty parent” list. Wouldn’t let my kids play at their house. Wouldn’t trust my child with them in any way. Yeah, that was a real f@#$ing riot. Sick bastard. ---
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/30 "2006-05-07T15:07:46Z")
> [@Team of Scientists](#): > > It becomes a little disturbing when he clings to the person’s leg and begins sobbing. Especially since the person taping it makes sure to get the camera right in the kid’s face. Yeah, that’s a little off. I can completely see a parent thinking it would be an amusing thing to do. It’s not like the kid is a toddler - it seems reasonable to assume he can handle a “BOOOOO!”. But people have different tolerances for this kind of thing, and once the tyke starts having a breakdown it’s definitely time for hugs and soothing noises rather than more video. God help him if he has siblings though - he’ll spend the rest of his childhood with them leaping out of closets and whatnot every ten seconds. And there is no serene image or anything on that screamer - it’s the “can you guide the dot through the maze? Most people can’t make it past level 3…” one which went around a while back. It’s one of the more effective ones, so beware it if you haven’t met it yet. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/31 "2006-05-07T18:12:33Z")
Am I blind? I don’t see any video on the OP’s link… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/32 "2006-05-07T18:21:36Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > That was truly disgusting. Anybody who would pull such a stunt–or who thinks its funny–would automatically be on my “shitty parent” list. Wouldn’t let my kids play at their house. Wouldn’t trust my child with them in any way. Yeah, that was a real f@#$ing riot. Sick bastard. [This guy’s not much better](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/bad-babysitter.html) ---
**Author:** ![Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Throatwarbler\_Mangrove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Throatwarbler_Mangrove)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/33 "2006-05-07T18:28:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Ummmmm…You laugh at this in later life? The family laughs at this in later life? Sure do. Life’s too short to be constantly hung up on petty childhood grudges. 🙂 YMMV, of course. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/34 "2006-05-07T18:47:17Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > You really had that reaction to one of those things? It’s bizarre - when I saw my first one I jumped out of my skin and then laughed. But a few years ago my wife showed one for the first time to a friend who had come round for dinner. This guy is in his thirties, is a highly paid business professional, and is super super-intelligent. He fucking _freaked_. Screamed like a stuck pig, ran out of the room - we thought he was joking, but we found him curled up in the kitchen, crying and shaking, pure white in the face, and his hands were ice cold. After a while our cat came into the room and looked at him, and he freaked out again and had to be comforted by his wife, and didn’t calm down for about two hours, and then only after the application of several shots of booze and some marijuana. Quite ruined the evening. When I was a Boy Scout our Scout leaders used to do stuff when we were camping to scare the shit out of us too, which was always funny in retrospect. Maybe it wasn’t to some kids. It clearly gets some people differently, something these parents (there are a few) may not realise. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/35 "2006-05-07T19:03:38Z")
> [@SHAKES](#): > > Am I blind? I don’t see any video on the OP’s link… 😕 It’s about halfway down the page, you have to scroll down. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/36 "2006-05-07T19:48:26Z")
There’s a great video online somewhere of a brother scaring his brother to the point of crying. He borrowed a friend’s broken Gamecube and swapped his brother’s out for it. When it didn’t work, the older brother(the prankster) took it and his brother outside. He then asked, “You know what I think of your Gamecube?” He threw it up in the air, with it smashing into pieces when it hit the ground. His brother(about 12 years old) was crying and crying. I found it funny, though cruel. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/37 "2006-05-08T10:11:35Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [This guy’s not much better](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/bad-babysitter.html) What an asshole. That’s child abuse, that’s what that is. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/38 "2006-05-08T12:20:53Z")
The only one that bugged me was the third one. Its obvious the kid is distressed the whole time, and it goes on far longer than it should. The others. . .meh. I thought they were funny. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/39 "2006-05-08T17:01:57Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [This guy’s not much better](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/bad-babysitter.html) Sweet Jesus, that’s worse than the first one!! “Aw, you’re not frightened.” WTF?? Does the Dad have Asperger’s or something? Future serial killer in the making, right there. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > There’s a great video online somewhere of a brother scaring his brother to the point of crying. > > He borrowed a friend’s broken Gamecube and swapped his brother’s out for it. When it didn’t work, the older brother(the prankster) took it and his brother outside. He then asked, “You know what I think of your Gamecube?” > > He threw it up in the air, with it smashing into pieces when it hit the ground. His brother(about 12 years old) was crying and crying. > > I found it funny, though cruel. Well, brothers are brothers. They’re _supposed_ to be assholes. Parents are a completely different story. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472/40 "2006-05-08T21:59:04Z")
> [@welby](#): > > The only one that bugged me was the third one. Its obvious the kid is distressed the whole time, and it goes on far longer than it should. You had a different thought about the first one? :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-thats-what-i-call-parenting/355472.md?page=3)