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Subscribe to RSSOf all the internet memes that were hot in 2011, the one that most deserves to die next year is the "kids crying" meme.
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What do you think of 'crying kid' YouTube videos?
Yes, “funny” videos of kids crying have been all the rage on YouTube lately. Sounds cruel – and it kind of is.
Viewed independently, you can almost see why some of these parents thought this would be a cute moment to record for posterity. An adorable little girl weeps because the Vikings lost, again. A little boy falls to the floor and sobs because his Halloween candy is all gone.
But watch them one after the other, and a disturbing pattern emerges: Kids crying, and adults laughing. I’m all for funny kid videos and not taking parenting too seriously, but it’s starting to get creepy. Even Jimmy Kimmel seemed to realize he’d taken it a step too far when he asked viewers to tell their kids that they’d eaten all their Halloween candy, and tape the reaction. It did not go well.
Jimmy Kimmel Live - YouTube Challenge - I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy
“I guess I didn't expect so much crying,” Kimmel explained. Still, he showed the videos. And people laughed. Except for the kids, who are probably still wondering why their parents would mess with their heads like that.
Kimmel tested his followers -- er, viewers -- once again this month with his Christmas video challenge: Let your child open one gift early, but make it a really lousy gift. "Hilarity" at the expense of upset, crying children once again ensued.
Jimmy Kimmel Live - YouTube Challenge - I Gave My Kids a Terrible Present
I'll admit to a little hypocrisy here, as I do have a soft spot for "Scared of Santa" photos. But with photos, we can believe that the moment after the picture was snapped, mom or dad scooped the crying child up in their arms, comforted them, and then they all went to the playground. In a video, there's no such illusion. The kid keeps crying, and the camera keeps rolling.
Why do we think it’s OK to laugh at kids’ emotions? Sure, the things that upset them may seem trivial to us. But football games and Halloween candy and lame presents aren’t trivial to them. And “punking” your kids puts your cheap laughs above their emotional security. Seems like a great way to teach kids to stifle their emotions – or better yet, never get excited about anything! That way, when someone pulls the rug out, your parents will have no embarrassing footage to post to YouTube.
So the next time your kid cries, do us all a favor -- put down the camcorder and be a parent.
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So glad I was raised before the digital age youtube revolution.
Be cruel to your kids just because Jimmy wants to do a comedy bit? Some of these parents seem vindictive, others like drones, incapable of thinking things through before acting.
I can't bring myself to watch these videos because I take no joy in a child crying. It's even worse when a parent knows that something will make their child cry and does it anyway. I'm a parent and although I will, of course, pull the occasional prank on my kid, it won't be to make them cry, and I definitely won't be filming it.
It has a lot to do with the kind of parents concerned. The kind of parents who think it's funny to make their kids cry, and teach them how to be bullies who go to school and think it's funny when they make the other kids cry. More good feeling generated by our lovely contemporary "society".
Only a couple of children cried. Most were just really confused. People are becoming overly sensitive to the world today.
The author of this article is as big a loser as the topic. The immaturity of today's parents blows the mind. Can you imagine parents with the time and inclination to put something like this together about their child?
This is the "brand" of the Daycare Generation brats who bonded with perfect strangers for more than half their lives. Now, they are so-called adults and making their kids cry is as much fun as it was in daycare when they made the other kids cry. This is their mechanism for getting attention. Being bad is now being good? God help us all when these grown up punks start to exterminate the "useless" elderly.
Just let it go, people. If parents want to do this because they saw it on Kimmel, that's their own business. It's harmless and it's funny. My suggestion is that more people need to mind their own business, rather than nitpick everyone else. If you want heartbreak, stop lying to your kids about Santa or the Easter Bunny. It sounds stupid, doesn't it? That's because it is, so let it go.
Next time your out eating, I'll take your food. Same difference.
If you really thought people should mind their own business, would you be making suggestions to complete strangers about how they ought to behave? Incoherent moron!
How can you say mind our own busniess when the parents not only planned these tricks but posted the videos on the web for anyone to see. For those people without kids it's funny as hell. For most parents this isn't what we want our children remembering when they grow up.
Darwin J...Sorry but your kids aren't part of the Beavis and Butthead comedy routine. When a 30 something takes delight in watching their children cry, that's about as immature as it needs to get. To what degree do they plan to make their kids cry? Any stupid parent who likes to see a child cry is guilty of child abuse because they are teaching these children to become desensitized to their parents abuse. Which then accelerates the levels of abuse...will cigarette burns be next if the kid refuses to cry on demand?
Mattmark....That's how Joel Steinberg got away with killing an illegally adopted daughter and beating his wife to a pulp...People minding too much of their own business. When you step over the line of civility, sorry but it's time to protect the victims of such assinine attitudes of supremacy.
Oh please. Parents have been laughing at their kids for ages, this is just the first time it's being recorded so that the kids can look at it later and go: "Mom? Dad? You jerks." and laugh along with them. My parents used to laugh at me if I cried over something silly. Kids aren't made of glass. Get over it.
I'll take your car and see if you laugh about it.
Hey Stu- stop making these stupid non-sensible comparisons IDIOT! And mind your own stinken' business.
Hey davy, looks like you're the one not minding your own business. So STFU unless you want to be a man and meet me somewhere you bigmouth faggot.
Ladies and Gents, I give you stu, the junior high punk that has all the answers and when unable to have an intelligent thought, uses stupid profanity and threats, just like all the other junior high punk bullies. Hey little stu, we all feel sorry for you and your room temperature IQ. :)
i belive you mean below freezing IQ...........
Kids are way too spoiled today and they don't know the meaning of sharing. Although to video tape the scenario says a lot about the mentality of the parents, kids need to be shocked back into reality. They need to be taught that there are a lot of kids in the USA that would love to have a home, let alone all the conveniences they have. Kids don't rule the house, parents do, but when the parents are as juvenile as the kids, well that's what's going to be in charge of our country some day. Think about it.
Jessipalooza...Sorry but when your parents made you cry it wasn't on demand as it is with these parents. Today's idiot parents talk, talk, talk, talk, talk to their kids as if it was some freaky playdate. Then, these idiot parents wonder why the kids ignore them.
McMommy and McDaddy are addicted to their freakish materialism to the point where their parenting is no longer the priority. They'd rather take second jobs they don't need so they can have it all and stick their kids into Daycare so someone else can do their parenting for them.
A parent who feels they must "rule" is a degenerate reject from Daycare. There is NO ruler in the family "kingdom". That's the kind of parents who raised kids in the 1900's when Big Daddy was the king and Big Momma some piece of crappola who wasn't allowed to open her mouth.
Parenting isn't about "ruling". It's about raising children who understand respect. How do you respect any parent who makes their kid cry for fun and then films it? Discipline isn't something you beat into a kid's head nor, it is parental psychological warfare.
It's easy to see why today's youth are a muddled bunch of misguided tyrants. The twig never falls far from the tyrannical tree.
Parents have been doing things like this long before Jimmy Kimmel. Some of those kids take it in stride and others their should be embarrassed by their behavior, the boy screaming he hates his parents for example.
You too should have no right to your feelings.
Kathryn-269476- You and so many others obviously miss the point. "Parents have been doing things like this long before XXXX(whoever)" Maybe that explains why so many kids grow up to be unhappy bullies who find pleasure in causing his/her own child to cry. And if you say we're pussifying our children, I would like you to say that to the face of the next parent you believe is doing so.
Kathryn...Wrong. Parents who find it fun to MAKE children cry are irresponsible idiots. The only good thing I see coming from these poor kids is how they will make their idiot parents cry their asses off when these kids are teens. Let's see how the Daycare Generation brats will handle the little criminals they helped create...And don't think it can't happen across the board. Kids from any class get into trouble...all you have to do is look at the Daycare brats in jail.
This was not a trend I saw coming. Or happening at all, for that matter.
dhines611...Wish I could say I didn't see it coming. When you consider what the 30 and 40 something think is comedy, it makes Animal House look like a cartoon. These are the people who have never had limits set for them. How could they? Most were raised in institutionalized daycare facilities among hundreds of other kids. And just what was so important that a parent couldn't spare 5 or 6 years of their lives to stay home with their kids? I'm not talking about single Moms here. I'm talking about all those Wall Streeters, bourgeois McMansioners and the rest of the hotchas who think a day without latte is an embarrassment to their class.
ewent - Are you talking about all 30 or 40 somethings? Because I'm a mom in my 40s and I was just as appalled as the writer of this - I couldn't believe parents would intentionally disappoint their children to the point where they were sobbing (Halloween candy and Christmas presents are VERY important at their age) and then laugh and post the videos. And, that so many people would agree that these videos are funny. It's sick and I think many of my also-40-something friends would feel the same way, so please don't slam my whole generation.
It's funnier if you catch a disappointment on video that wasn't staged. But every parent plays a practical joke on their kid once in awhile.
No, not every parent does this. If the ones you know do, perhaps you should start keeping better company. What's funny about someone of any age being sad, upset or disappointed? Surely there's enough real cause for grief in life without artificially adding to it by deliberately and needlessly provoking people. To do this to a defenseless child is unconscionable. The insensitivity displayed by some here is appalling.
Mattmark, Maybe he's one of the crowd already and feels right at home in the group of parents who do this to their children. So being AWAY from the teasing parents just might do no good. JML will keep on doing it anyway. I feel sorry for the kids, especially. But I do feel sorry for the parents also, because they don't realise the separation they are creating in their family. As their children grow up, move away and have children, they won't want them to really know their own parents (or the children's grandparents) well at all.
JLM...I think there's a huge difference between a child crying spontaneously of their own volition and "making" a child cry. Has the definition of "cry" changed to "laugh"? I guess "making" a child cry these days is all these lunkheaded Daycare rejects have in their arsenal of bully tactics.
The next child molester will make a kid cry and the kid will think it's just dandy because idiotic McMommy and McDaddy did the same thing.
Give me a freakin' break! Laughing at our kids crying for funny reasons once or twice or pranking them isn't going to make them stifle their emotions or ruin them for life. We LIE to them about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy...I tell my son we have to brush the family of sugar bugs off his teeth before they set up permanent residence there! Will that make them distrustful and insecure? This article is just dumb.
We don't "lie" to our kids about Santa Claus because we want to capture the heartbreaking moment on camera when we tell them the truth and send it to Jimmy Kimmel. We have stories and fairy tales like these to keep magic alive in the hearts of our innocent children. To assume we have some ulterior motive for letting our kids believe in the Easter Bunny and comparing it to playing pranks on them and laughing while they cry is ludicrous.
Please. Parents use Santa Claus to get good behavior from their children and as a bargaining tool all year long! Laughing at a child for a bout of emotional lability once or twice isn't going to ruin them for life and to suggest that it might is ludicrous. I think those kids who got a half-eaten sandwich as an early Christmas present and were told that it was a joke not only found it funny then but will also find it funny as an adult.
If my parents pulled the half-eaten sandwich prank on me and told me it was a joke, I wouldn't think it was funny. I'd be pissed. Kids don't appreciate prank humor like adults do. And who's to say that an "emotional lability" as you refer to it won't stay with them into adulthood? I remember many negative experiences as a child that are still with me to this day.
Maybe the next Jimmy Kimmel request will be for parents to tell their children a sibling died and to film the reaction. And according to your logic, once the parent tells them it's a joke, they'll all have a good laugh and look fondly back on those memories as adults, right?
jdouble--Just because you (or your parents--I don't know your age) have zero empathy for children and the way that they see the world does not mean that the rest of us are devoid of concern for them. I never told my daughter that there was a "real" Santa Claus (I told her that we "played" Santa Claus--and that it was "cheating" to look at presents before the big day). I never used Santa Claus as a way to get her to behave. I never lied about the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy--though both visited our house as a "game." She perfectly understood when she got older and realized we were the ones doing it--and wanted to take over for herself the planning of presents, egg hunts, and sneaking the coin into the bedroom without waking others.
Laughing at small children is a lot like laughing at someone who doesn't understand a language or custom or a person with Down Syndrome or dementia who cannot operate a gadget--it is an "in" joke between those who feel that they are superior. No, I absolutely would never have appreciated it had my parents been cruel enough to subject me to this sort of "humor." I would be embarrassed for them that they had been so juvenile and cruel that they would pull the stunt, and so absolutely clueless that they would tape their cruel taunts for posterity.
The little boy whose father based Dennis the Menace on turned out very badly and did not get along with his father as he grew up--yes, it messed up his life. Ennis Cosby, whose father Bill Cosby mercilessly made fun of him for what turned out to be an undiagnosed learning disability (bearing in mind that Cosby, at least theoretically, has an advanced degree in education and his wife has an advanced degree in child psychology), was apparently in none to close a relationship with his father and was beginning to go public with his struggles. Ennis, sadly, was murdered because he did not have a family member to rely on when his car broke down in the middle of the night--and depended on a flakey female friend who abandoned him.
So, yes, children have and can be damaged by cruel, juvenile parents--particularly those who make a "name" for themselves by taping and publicizing such private moments rather than parenting well. It is one thing to laugh at the child, privately and well out of the child's hearing, after an event--it's another thing to laugh with the camera rolling and then share the embarrassing event with the world.
And, if you don't know the difference--do us a favor and either stop procreating, or don't do it in the first place. Thanks in advance.
Ditto Beanathome! Couldn't be better stated. Same adults who antagonize little kids until they cry. They have a handicap with boundaries. They don't know when to stop.
There are 6 children in my family, I have 4 sisters and 1 brother. My parents played this same prank on everyone of us at least once while we were children. I remember one Christmas morning, I opened up a present and inside was a pair of my own used underwear. Yes I was confused and a little angry at the moment, but now it puts a smile on my face every time I look back at that memory.
Many people here are saying that this small prank will be detrimental to the children's physiological health and they will not live a normal life with such heartless parents. I'll address that issue and say my older sister is a doctor, I recently graduated with a mechanical engineering degree, my twin sister is working on her masters in biology, and my brother is in dental school. The other two are still in high school. We are a very functional family and we all love our parents very much. The gift prank subject comes up in conversation every Christmas we get together and everyone shares a laugh.
Everyone is so overly sensitive anymore. Neglecting your children (like many of you do) is crule, not an innocent prank.
As are you. You know nothing about Psychology.
Get off the board Stu!!!
shut your mouth and mind your own business faggot or be a man and meet up with me coward.
Ladies and Gents, I give you stu, the junior high punk that has all the answers and when unable to have an intelligent thought, uses stupid profanity and threats, just like all the other junior high punk bullies. Hey little stu, we all feel sorry for you and your room temperature IQ. :)
Is stu short for STUPID?
stu is a idiot troll that should have his account deleted
also stu is half of stupid but he was too stupid to remember how to spell it all
jdouble...You already got that "freakin' break" when you "make" a child cry. If you have to "make" the child cry....how sick does this need to get?
Actually, folks...Kimmel is the same type of charlatan as those TV emcess who buy off the poorest people and make them do the most disgusting uncivilized things for viewers to watch. Meanwhile, the Kimmels of the world are making huge bucks from this type of exploitation and these parents are too stupid to know it.
And just wait until a LOT of these kids made to cry for their parents' laughter and 15 seconds of fame turn out to be majorly messed up...
The problem is that some of these kids will Die Alcoholics or from Suicide because after so many dissapointments and feelings of inferiority breaks their Spirits the only way to feel alive again will be the effects of more & more Alcohol until it stops working. And We wonder why kids get so crazy that their their Spirits really do need mending. And Or their Hearts
admittedly, I took the camera with me to the dr. when my 8 yr old needed blood drawn 2 months ago. Normally, ANY shot and she is screaming bloody murder and no one can hold her down. I told her ahead of time that I was taping it, and if she "freaked out" - I was putting it on Youtube. - Success!! Not one tear. . . (and I give Children's Hospital credit for having tiny needles!) :)
These parents seem really lame and cruel, but maybe it's just me.
"These parents seem really lame and cruel, but maybe it's just me."
No, you just have the empathy gene they lack.
Just another form of bullying by the strong to the weak. All you parents grow up.
Being cruel to your child is a form of child abuse. Teasing, ignoring, withholding hugs, calling them names,
pinching, allowing siblings to do the same, amounts to forms of torture, if the child is pushed to crying.
What comes next? A little sexual handling, molesting, selling your kids to pedophiles? If you have children
then love them and take care of them in a loving way. If you don't want kids than have an abortion or give
them up for adoption. Some children would be better off dead than the way they are mistreated. And we
wonder why so many are on drugs, sociopaths and in jail or prison. STUPID PARENTS are often the cause.
You're an idiot. Stupid people would compare this to selling your children to pedophiles.
The psychological damage this causes childeren is much worst than any of you people want to admit. No one as a parent wants to admit that they may have messed up their kids, but the fact of the matter is that laughing at your child when they are obviously upset causes the child to be confused and starts to develope a warp idea of emotions. I believe that every parent need to take a delelopmental psychology class educate yourself learn on how to help your children grow into a great an adult they are the future of this society
Thank you, Ines, for giving me reason to hope that all of America isn't mentally ill after all. It would be comforting to think that anyone who'd ever been sad him/herself (which is everyone, yes?) would fail to see the humour in making a child sad. Unfortunately, for many, that logical emotional link doesn't seem to exist... which is disturbing and frightening. Abusers, pedophiles and even potential genocide perpetrators in our midst? Well, yes... we know that such people exist and must come from somewhere; and where more plausibly than from among the ranks of those unable to empathize with a distraught child?
Mattmark...Children shouldn't be the object of a parent's fun and games at the child's expense. What is there about that these idiot parents don't get? They can't find other adults to poke fun at? Could that be because they'd get a poke in the schnoz if they did?
Anyone who has ever seen the stupid parents who put their infants and toddlers into those hideous pageants are living vicariously through their kids. They are forcing their children to be what they never could be. That's about as pathetic as it needs to get. And then, they try to make it appear that a 2 year old "wants" to be paraded in front of salicious adults who judge them on their "cutesy" and their ability to act like 20 years old at age 2. These idiots are robbing their children of the natural innocence all children possess.
At the moment a parent interferes with the natural innocence of childhood, they've already stepped over the line. Today's parents don't want these kids. That's why they force them into adulthood at age 5.
Is not so much that they pulled a prank on their kids; for me that is not the issue. The issue for me is that it then gets posted for all to see without the child having any say on who gets to witness their humilliation. I wouldn't think of pulling a prank on my husband, or any adult friend and then posting it on You Tube or sending it to a nationally syndicated program without their consent, but because they are children their humilliating moment is out there for anyone to see.
Yes, I agree children are not made out of glass, parents have been tricking their kids for generations and most of us got over it and now laugh about it with our parents, but for us of a different generation, we find comfort that the moment stayed with our parents and close families, not shared with thousands of strangers.
As far as Santa, Easter Bunny, and Tooth Fairy, again we were not video taped being told they existed, promising us fun and then being disappointed when at the end we found they were not real; all in the span of a few minutes. Most of us were not as young as a majority of the children on the tapes when we found out that it was all a fantasy.
My teen boys now laugh at their old videos, watching themselves looking for Santa, wondering why the Easter Bunny hid eggs but was not a chicken or discovering in wonder that their baby teeth were replaced with an all important quarter. They did not have a traumatic moment when they realized that it was all mom and dad, and if they had, I certainly would not have video taped it for the world to see.
AND SHAME on Kimmel for being so insensitive and low as to find humor at the expense of a small
child. Any woman would be stupid to have a child with him. If a man or woman thinks this is funny they
should not be given a license to have a child. Watch how a person treats an animal to get an idea how they
would treat a baby. I have seen shaken babies........injured. I also saw a man sitting in jail after doing it.
The child died, I hope he is still sitting in prison thinking about it.
Ehrm...did you know that people aren't given licences to have children? So how can they have something not given to them that doesn't even exist?
Also, my parents did this kind of stuff on a daily basis. Hell, they still do it now sometimes. I'm now a sophomore in college with a good GPA and a job. What they did was a very good lesson in standing your ground, standing up for what's right, and dealing with people outside of the safe, but impermanent, home environment. These are lessons that have continued to be extremely helpful, right up to this very day. You'd call them "insensitive". I call them "not afraid to teach hard lessons". I learned how to deal with people who weren't in Super Happy Playful Kiddie Playtime Mode which, as it turns out, is most of the population.
And please, don't throw in holier-than-thou, "I've seen shaken babies" crap to make your fluffy, candy-coated idea of child-rearing easier to swallow. I'm not buying it. It's not related to the actual topic and is a poor attempt at giving yourself some kind of credentials or status. How dare you compare the way that my parents raised me to baby-shaking. Kids cry about stupid things all the time. Spend five minutes with my four year old neice, and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. If you weren't aware of this, I'm very skeptical about the amount of time you've actually spent around children. A parent's job isn't to be their kid's best friend. It's doing all of the hard stuff like discipline, and the teaching of hard lessons. If your kids don't get angry at you from time to time, you're not doing it right.
Before you ask: No, I don't have children. My parents also taught me how important it is to be responsible with my body, and instilled in me a necessary little bit of paranoia about my choices. I take extremely effective precautions, and require my partner to do the same. Look at that! Responsibility also came to me through my parents' "insensitive" parenting.
Also, that one shirtless kid could clearly use less candy, and probably some anger-management therapy as well. I'd have gotten a healthy spanking if I'd punched a wall like that.
Sorry Mimi, at 20 you're barely out of diapers yourself. Cool down and wait until you're old enough to
have seen some of life before you think you know everything.
Did you notice the italics, that was to indicate people (maybe like you ) should be required to have a
license to have a baby considering the huge responsibility it is. It's called subtlety.
You have to be a complete idiot to compare shaking babies to an innocent prank. Parents who shake their babies would neglect them on Christmas morning. These videos looked as if they were loving, successful parents just trying to have a little fun on Christmas morning. Those kids will cherish that memory and will laugh at it someday.
I think your sense of humor was lost when you were shook as a baby.
mimi fermata... you're a prime example of what's wrong with this world. A pot calling the kettle black. Please climb back in your hole and cover it up.
Ladies and Gents, I give you stu, the junior high punk that has all the answers and when unable to have an intelligent thought, uses stupid profanity and threats, just like all the other junior high punk bullies. Hey little stu, we all feel sorry for you and your room temperature IQ. :)
Please don't make assumptions about my personality or character until you've had time to experience them first-hand. I'll give you the same courtesy. Thanks =)
20 years old and you think you know so much. So Sad, because if you make it too an old age you will realize you should be learning something until the day you Die
Seems like they taught you arrogance instead of Humility. College or having a Job doesn't mean you are an Adult emotionally or mentally
Ines...That's part of the problem. These are daycare adults turned parents. Half of this generation of parents never left home until they were 30 years old. Meanwhile, McMommy and McDaddy had adult children still living as if they were carefree products of overindulgence. They never grew up normally. They were still children at age 29.
If you teach children responsibility from the time they are toddlers, it becomes a second skin. You don't suddenly try to instill responsibility on a wayward, carefree 29 year old "child".
It doesn't take a college education to learn how to be a good parent. It does take a whole lot of patience and understanding....something today's parents have no time for. They live their lives in a blur of rushing off to daycare, dropping off their kids, going to work and then it's pick up the fast food dinner and the kids at daycare and then get rid of the kids as fast as you can.
Today's young children are actually in their homes less than 5 hours a day while awake. Those McMansions are show off homes their kids aren't allowed to actually "live in". Kids don't play outdoors anymore because they sit in front of a computer for those 5 hours instead of getting fresh air and exercise. Now, they have to arrange a "playdate" just to be outdoors with their friends.
I'll say it to you, as well: Please don't make assumptions about my character or personality until you've experienced it, thanks. =)
Also, I never said I knew everything. I was just stating my problems with the comment, and defending the aspects of the issue that I felt like defending. This has nothing to do with my learning, experience, or education. If I thought I knew everything, I wouldn't be in college, would I? What about the dozens and dozens of books that I read, because I enjoy learning the new things in them? Truth is, the day I stop learning and growing is the day I die. Because I'll be open to new information and ideas as long as I live, even if I end up disagreeing with them.
My parents use to laugh at me when I cried over something silly. They would then apologize and everything would be ok. If it had been the other way around I would have laughed too. It would of been nice if these videos showed the kid's reaction when they discovered the truth. If they had done that I'm sure there would have been less arguing. *shrug*
But did your parents purposely do things to provoke you to tears? It's one thing to play pranks on teenagers who get it but little kids don't get it.
Target stores are clean and middle priced but, the management supports liberalisim. They despise caucasion babies and hate motherhood. These people are based in the northern mid-west urbana which explains the odd way of thinking.
Wow--off topic, guy. I think you meant to post to the thread on breast-feeding moms at Target? I see you haven't quite mastered this whole Internet thread thing (or critical thinking, either). Go to the Target website and click on the baby section--the very first picture you see will be of a little Caucasian-appearing tyke. I clicked on the "Gerber" link--and, pow, another Caucasian-appearing tyke. I clicked "feeding," and found a much smaller picture of what might be an Asian baby. I clicked the link for Huggies and found a mother and child who look African-American as well as a bunch of Huggies packages which have what appear to be a Caucasian mother and child. The other main links on the page had no babies, but products.
So, out of four cases, two had Caucasian-appearing tykes only, one had a very small Asian-appearing tyke, and the page with the African-American mother and child had a whole mess of pictures of Caucasian-appearing mothers and children. It looks like you don't really have a good grasp of Target and its corporate policies, doesn't it? Also, given the fact that the company is going out of its way to be pleasant to the breast-feeding mothers, again, you really seem to be coming out of left . . . errr, right field, there.
And, guy, since approximately half the country is Democrat (actually, slightly more than half), and a huge proportion also support liberal causes--the way of thinking might not be yours, but it sure as heck isn't "odd." Have a great day.
I watched these videos and all I see are a bunch of whiny, spoiled brats. This is why I'd never want a kid. The one that the kid told his mom to f-- off? I know it's the parent's fault that he learned that, but still. Great, if children are the future, and this is how they behave, this is really going to suck.
LOL... you sound just like a whiny spoiled brat.
Hey Stu, have you read your posts?? Seems like your the one whining!
Whatever I posted was NOT about you so STFU davy!
Ladies and Gents, I give you stu, the junior high punk that has all the answers and when unable to have an intelligent thought, uses stupid profanity and threats, just like all the other junior high punk bullies. Hey little stu, we all feel sorry for you and your room temperature IQ. :)
Christ444...When childish adults think the world is their oyster and they can only open the oyster shell when it's time to "get" and then they slam it shut when it's time to "give", you get parents of children who are too lazy to actually be parents. They love all that sex. Just not the consequences. They love all that partying and those Happy Hour hook ups ....but the minute they have to accept responsibility for their reckless behavior, they immediately looked around for someone else to blame.
Well said! I totally agree with this article!
women that have breast feed should do it in privacy.they know when their baby needs to be fed so be home or somewhere where else besides the freaking mall when its time.this is just a bunch of nonsense by women that want to do what they want in front of people that don't care to see it in public.if your going to out longer then the due feeding time then squeeze your breastmilk in a bottle.respect the public that doesn't care to see it.
Ron...Is that because some men out there can't see a women breast feeding without envying the infant? If you really want to talk disgusting, is there any reason baseball and football players must scratch their butts and spit for all the world to watch? If they have to do this, can't they take care of their itch in the bullpen?
Most women are not upset by the sight of a woman breastfeeding. So, it must be that some men can't learn to accept a very natural process because they get some bizarre sexual titillation from having to view it. It's called "grow up". These same men have no problem with bare breasted lap dancers though do they?
Wow. How is this cruel? Some kids don't get to experience any kind of these activities. These kids should be grateful for how good life is to them. If you want all kids to be sheltered and not realize life can be cruel go raise them all yourself. Also, comparing this to something drastic as jokingly informing a child a loved one died is ridiculous. The comparison is bizarre and so far fetched I wish I could understand your thinking. How you don't realize this is harmless is beyond me. I'm thinking based on these reactions, shows like Americas Funniest Home Videos and Wipeout should never be shown again as veiwers laugh at others failures in life.
I know right? If these kids are so spoiled that they get messed up because their candy was eaten or they got a half eaten apple for christmas (which, btw, they received real presents and candy after the prank for sure) than there is something fail about parenting going on and it has nothing to do with recording your kids crying and putting it on youtube.
You're messed up for not recognizing that these kids don't understand the concept of a prank. The fact that you don't grasp it shows that you have no business considering being a parent.
sablelace...That's what's wrong with these parents...they want these young children to possess the same levels of understanding as adults have. These parents think their children must be exposed to everything their parents are exposed to. How sick is that?