This videohas been making the internet rounds of late and it seems to stir up quite a bit of controversy. It has to do with a couple of parents telling their 3 or 4-year-old daughter to say the term “Sparkling Wiggles” in a few different contexts. But the kid seems to have an interesting speech impediment.
The comments section is strongly divided. Even my friends are strongly divided. However, it’s this comment that the parent made the kid say that strikes me as ubercreepy: “Get a job, sparkling wiggles.” They knew what they were doing. Yep, racist cunts.
Little kiddies say the darndest things sometimes don’t they? Fortunately for this child, the speech and the context (of her folks prompting her) have been recorded and now they are posted on the net, will be there forever probably.
Let’s hope that when she grows up to be a big sensible girl she turns around and slaps her parents stupid for THEIR stupidity.
Yeah, why did they say “Get a job Sparkling Wiggles”? Everybody knows that The Wiggles work full time!!!
It’s creepy and I don’t know how you don’t call it racist. Sometimes kids will muff a word to sound like a dirty or offensive word, the correct thing to do is teach the proper way to say it. Posting it is pretty childish, essentially it says “we can’t say the n-word but ha-ha isn’t it funny when a kid does it.” No, it isn’t funny.
I’ll set myself up for flames and say that I thought it was hilarious. Lots of kids say things that don’t sound right, pisgetti, etc. That said, the mother took it too far and made it racist with her particular sentence that she fed the child and could use a good slap in the head.
IMO this is one of those rare things that’s really wrong, somewhat creepy… and yet pretty freakin’ funny. (Come on, what are the odds the kid would have that particular speech defect, and how in the world did they figure it out?)
I do question the parents’ wisdom in putting a controversial video of their own kid (surely they must’ve known it would be controversial) into the public arena, and I hope it doesn’t cause her any problems later in life. I wouldn’t do it with my own child, if I had one.
But speaking strictly as a consumer of viral videos, I admit that I laughed at this one. I think some people are taking it a little too seriously.
(Yeah, the comments on the page are asinine and depressing, but that’s true of most comments on that site, and most comments on most sites.)
Well the parents definitely knew what they were getting the child to say. I doubt the child has any idea at least not from that exercise. It is a little funny but I don’t know why they felt the need to show it to the whole world.
My daughter’s best friend (a 4 year Jewish boy) has roughly that same speech impediment. I wonder what I can teach him to say based on perfectly cute words?
It sounds to me, (with a hearing disability and not being of a North American heritage myself), like the child is saying ‘fucking niggers’.
And given the prompting and delight of the parents when the child parrotted back what they wanted to hear, I’m guessing it wasn’t really intended to be Sparkling Wiggles somehow.
Yes I too agree that if my child said something to the effect of “parking niggles” I might do a double take and get a good chuckle out of it. -But to encourage this sort of behaviour is pure stupidity.
As other parents here on this board can attest, I’m sure: When a kid knows she/he can get a rise out of grown ups by saying something ‘cutesy’ or ‘funny’ said kid will KEEP ON saying it perpetually. Even at times when it might NOT be so funny. Like say at a grocery store or a doctors office etc… where people might be present and not understand the context of what is being said.
I can remember the time I taught my kid to say “What’s up fool?”. At the time I thought it was pretty damned funny but then he started greeting total strangers like that and it turned out to be NOT so funny. (Well, OK, maybe it is now in retrospect)
Nothing. I’ll tell you this though: My sister and I were both active in student government and other extracurricular stuff in college. We both went to school here in Tennessee. When groups travelled to other universities in the Midwest or Northeast for conferences we often had people asking us to say things just to hear our pronunciation.
Unsurprisingly, many were shocked when I and a few friends blew their asses out of the water in friendly games of Trivial Pursuit and Cranium.
Stereotypin’ is always fun, but you can clearly hear both her parents in the video clip feeding her lines. Neither one has a remotely Southern accent, and both speak in complete sentences.