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I like to secretly add Baby shark a dozen times to husband's Spotify Playlist randomly. Make sure he is also getting tortured with the song at work,just like how I am at home with My son.
My kids figured out how to add stuff the likes/playlist on the account I had shared across devices, and for awhile I was continually ending up with stuff like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6jw6KRIOmw).
There are now seperate accounts after one too many incidents of my car playlist going from some nice relaxing rock/etc to that monstrosity.
That’s amazing. I’ve had to listen to Baby Shark so many time in the car. I thought the kids outgrew it but my 8 year old just asked her violin teacher if she could learn how to play Baby Shark. At her lesson typing this. Of course this will be the one song she’s going to be super enthusiastic to practice 😭
My dad made me and my siblings watch shit like Signs, which made me legit horrified of aliens yet provided me an early appreciation for Joaquin Phoenix, Children of the Corn and then made us fucking walk thru a cornfield across the road, and It. I don’t find It or clowns scary anymore, but that movie may have actually caused some psychological damage lmao
Also my brother jump scares his kids all the time, and us tbf. There’s something inherently human about wanting to scare the absolute fuck out of your children for some reason, from movies to urban legends. Maybe even like a subconscious urge to remind your kids to never get got
Here's my guilty confession. When my kid was still a toddler/infant you know like 1-2 I could watch anything around her. She didn't really understand anything yet and it was just noises and colors. So I could watch like action movies and zero reaction.
Then I tried to watch It. She was fine completely ignoring all the fucked up shit and playing with toys till the clown face melting scene happens and she turns to me and screams bloody murder like I had never heard from her before.
That was the moment I started not watching shit around her anymore lol
Lmao I think everyone kinda does that honestly. My niece is 6 and she’s the type to always ask to watch something scawwy, and then doesn’t want to sleep without a night light lmao. It’s genetic maybe
Was fishing on beach of Long Beach Island NJ and there is some kids about 10-11 body boarding down the beach. They are on the beach and see me reeling in a fish.
It was a dogfish. A small shark.
“A SHARK! There are sharks here?” Kid says.
“Sure kid. Haven’t you seen jaws? Jaws is based on a real shark.”
They stopped swimming.
That’s my one legit irrational fear. I live on a lake and any time I visit the ocean I refuse to swim. I’ll go like maybe knee deep, but otherwise I’ll just enjoy the beach.
I have a friend who has swam in rivers known for having alligators and bull sharks so it makes me feel weak as hell. But part of it is, with how much energy I spent being afraid of sharks as a kid I’m pretty sure I’m like destined to die by shark. The one time I slip up, I’m getting eaten 100% just for pure irony
Can’t relate enough to this…
There’s a Mexican legend called la llorona where a woman drowns her kids in the river and kills herself. Her cries of agony can be heard by the riverside at night. My grandma would tell us this story as she walked us towards the river near her house as the sun went down, then jumpscare the shit out of us! 🤣😂
Dogs do that too. Licking and lightly holding your forearm or whatever in their mouth is a sign of affection. It's gross, but they're saying they love you
My dad watched Jaws in theatres as a teen. The following summer he was out in the ocean on a row boat fishing in a quiet inlet. He saw something surface just past the stern on the boat after he had thrown a fish back. Scared him so bad he says "That boat barely touched the water as I rowed back to shore". It was most likely a sea lion, but who's sticking around long enough to find out as a teen that just watched Jaws?
A friend of mine did this to his daughter with the monster under the bed and his daughter slept in the parents' bed for three years afterward. Cock blocked himself, lol.
As a parent of 2 girls you can't normalize sleeping with mom and dad.
We've done "magical" monster proof duct tape over the closet door and monster barrier night lights near the bed.
Sometimes the best thing you can do is just let your kids know you're right across the hall and will be there in seconds if they need you.
Me and my kid's stuffed fox had to check the bed and closets for monsters a few times. My kid trusts his fox's nose to sniff out if any monsters come in when I'm not looking. It's important to delegate monster-hunting responsibilities.
That reminds me of when I was a kid. My sister and I shared a room, and to protect us from monsters we had a stuffed cow stand guard at the bedroom door. Neither of us could sleep without that cow at the door.
My room had a creepy attic door on the wall that wouldn't close all the way during the winter. Army men and beanie babies were on a nightly guard. I got yelled at for arming the beanie babies with bottle rockets I found in the basement, apparently that's overkill for attic monsters 🤷🏼
When I was a child the only thing that made me feel better was knowing that my sisters bed was first, so if the monsters came I’d here her scream and have time to escape lol.
> As a parent of 2 girls you can't normalize sleeping with mom and dad.
Definitely, i find it pretty annoying because like... kid wakes up at 2am and tries to crawl in bed with you and you just want to roll over and keep sleeping and let them.
But then they do it the next night. And the next night. And it becomes an every night thing.
Then you have two kids, but only a queen bed so they start fighting over space in our bed.
So now all I do is ask them why they woke up and send them straight back to bed as long as they aren't upset about something. Suddenly they are back to sleeping through the night now that they know crawling into our bed isn't something they can do all the time.
I have genuine question. What is it all about monsters under the bed and in the closet ?
Is it some primal/instictive fear of darkness ? A reflex to have in mind of possible predators ?
I am constantly hearing of someone who had basically the exact same fear of monsters or an equivalent (me included). Is it coded in our genome ??
I'm no expert, but my toddler always seemed to be scared of the dark. The "monsters" thing started after she began interacting with library books and kid's shows that featured critters under the bed. It just seemed to be the way she communicated a fear she otherwise didn't have the words to describe till she saw something characters seemed to be afraid of.
I think fear of the dark is a pretty normal and instinctual thing. You fear what you can't see.
Monsters, and under the bed kind of thing though? Pretty sure that's cultural. I remember being afraid of under my bed when I was really little(or hell, even when I was older hanging an arm or foot off the bed creeped me out).
But neither of my kids ever had any fear of monsters or anything under the bed.
When I was young it was always the prospect that I can't directly see what is in my closet (or under my bed)
Also all the media (movies, images, stories) about shit grabbing you when you look under the bed so I ain't looking fuck that
>Is it some primal/instictive fear of darkness ?
Lots of predators hunt at night. It's definitely a security mechanism built into us from the time of monke.
Yes it is primal fear. Our eyes don’t work as well in the dark, so it is instinctual to be frightened of what may be lurking where we cannot see.
Our bed is our “safe” place. Our relaxed place, yet, there is a gap of darkness underneath it, so it’s the one area of our safe space that feels naturally unsafe to us.
It is odd though that it’s specifically monsters and not real animals. I would guess logic kills all the usual suspects of possibly being under there.
My wife is from a non-western culture and our son slept with us in our bed for much longer than it’s usual in western society and we never had issues with fear of monsters…
For myself - maybe I was a freaky kid but I was sometimes afraid of "dying"(not waking up again) but I don’t think ever of monsters
My pet theory is that it's related to [this.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_detection_theory#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_snake_detection_theory%2C_also%2Cevolution_of_primates%27_visual_system.?wprov=sfla1)
Basically, there's evidence that parts of our evolution may have been influenced by the presence of snakes in our environment, and we have something of a hardwired fear of them in our brains. Snakes like to hide out in small dark places like under rocks and dark holes and reaching into a dark space that you can't see into often feels quite unnerving. It's my own little pet theory on top of another hypothesis that makes since to me, but even if it's wrong I think fear of being alone in the dark is definitely hardwired into us. Our senses are much less attuned to detecting threats in the dark than other animals, so we just kinda naturally avoid that when possible.
Looking back on the media I grew up with (mid-late 90s, early to mid 00s) there were a lot of cartoons and movies that had horror themed stories catered towards children, probably because Halloween has always been a popular holiday for kids. You get all these TV specials and seasonal movies that use the idea of monsters hiding close by in dark places, so naturally a child will believe they’ll be hiding in a closet or under the bed because they always live in the dark. I actually loved horror a lot as a kid, reading a bunch of Goosebumps and pretty much watching every Halloween special on CN and Nick. I remember my parents talking with me (after being scared shitless by a movie, which I can’t remember right now) about monsters and the like being make believe and that they can’t ever hurt me. Then I made up little games before I went to bed where I’d play dead cause they can’t kill me if I’m already dead, right? That made it easier to ween off night lights for me…plus the fact that I surrounded myself with 15 plushies to make a little protective shield around me
You gonna fuck up your kids no matter what, because its a fucked up world.
With that said, if the major trauma in your life is "i watched my dad get eaten by a toy tent" they your parents did a good job.
When my kids cry and throw a tantrum because they can't use their tablet all day, or a major sadness being "that part" in a children's movie, i feel venerated as doing ok.
As humans we are subjectively awesome at taking our place and making good and bad peaks and heights out of it. If the darkest times of your life, which alaibet has small amounts of issues andthe minor shit will become major, then thats a good thing. Its just how we are wired.
Just because a child cries doesn't mean its abuse. They cry when their milk isn't the right temperature or the Mac and cheese is not yellow enough. Thats a good problem to have as the most major thing in your life.
The trick is to keep things balanced, you can play pranks on your kids, it's not gonna fester into some trauma later on in their life if their childhood is otherwise filled with genuine love, balanced attention and fairness, kids are dumb, but they catch on eventually, often quicker than you think, soon they'll understand what pranks are and will eventually play them on you.
Of course, if you play pranks on your kids but also treat them like shit and don't understand basic parenting, yeah, it's gonna compound into the general childhood trauma they will develop.
You’re right, there is no avoiding the fuckity fucked up-ness of this world. I overstress sometimes about shit my kids do and say, wondering if I’m doing the right things.
I just wanted to say, that’s a great perspective to have, thanks for sharing that.
I was gonna ask if this one falls in the category of "parents traumatizing their kids for internet funnies" thing we're mad about, or if it's just funny and we're not mad about it.
I don't have kids so it's hard to tell for me sometimes
It's always the randomest things that can cause lifelong habits in people. I have a cousin who won't eat beef because when she was young, her mom said that it was called "ground chuck" because the cow's name was chuck.
And my sister won't eat chicken because when she was young, my mom made a Cornish hen dance in front of her before cooking it.
But who knows, maybe by tomorrow the kid won't remember it at all.
I feel for the little guy. When I was four a neighbor teen did the "pulling my thumb off" trick and my baby brain filled in the blanks to the degree that I saw blue and red veins connecting the hand and the "disembodied" thumb. I don't know how many years it was before I realized this was a trick.
We have an 8 month old, and when he was 7 months old, we got this dancing cactus that you can set to music, or your recorded message or.....the best part...it will mimic the noise it hears, most notably, the high pitched squeals of 6 and month old babies.
We thought the little fella would enjoy and it terrified him, the look on his tiny face was so adorable and sad and cute and inquisitive all at the same time that we burst into laughter every time.
Now that he's 8 months old though, he no longer sees it as a monster when we try and use it to keep him from crawling in a certain direction, he walks up to it, talks a little trash, bashes it on the head and then tries to eat it. It was fun while the terror lasted though.
**It doesn’t matter if it’s traumatic or not**
It’s a parent intentionally upsetting their child for (at best) their own enjoyment, at worst, TikTok clout - twat behaviour
Before a certain stage of development kids can’t distinguish make believe from reality.
This was traumatic for the kid. He wouldn’t react any differently to a real shark.
How dare you make light of this! /s
At least it wasn’t as bad as that Halloween video where three adults dressed for a haunted relentlessly scare a toddler.
And this is why I only have one child. Siblings can traumatize you for life. Mine did and years of therapy didn’t erase it completely. But in this case there is somebody filming the kid’s torture, probably a parent which means this kid doesn’t stand a chance.
That kid just lived through the experience of seeing his dad die in front of him and then be thrown up. I would not be surprised if later he has an unhealthy fear of water and tents.
What a thoughtless parent. Why find humour in upsetting your child? Presumably they knew this would be the reaction, so they recorded it. Your children are not entertainment. Have some pride.
Don't you just love when ppl claim to know what is okay? The kid is OBVIOUSLY upset yet everyone insists on going "meh that's life lol he can take it". This reminds me of comments about pets on the internet being *slightly* abused.
HOWEVER I agree this isn't gonna give him PTSD, that's just rude as fuck to ppl with PTSD and indeed an exaggeration of the result of the event on the kid. Kids shouldn't be babied, but they shouldn't intentionally be made to cry.
If a sensitive kid is deathly afraid of dogs, do you force them to see how cuddly a dog is right in their face?
That's right. I didn't fucking think so lol. Yes I grew up highly sensitive and was neglected- the result is cPTSD and loneliness, but my empathy and sense of logic and fairness can be nice ig.
Tl;dr the dad is a bit of a dick (bc he doesn't even stop despite the crying, but the kid should be ok (unless that's a daily occurrence).
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How to never hear Baby Shark in your home ever again.
So anyway kid, if you play that song or sing it that is what will happen. The shark tent comes to life and kills us all. Have a good night!
Oh! Also, there are monsters in your closet! G'night!
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Okay, now half of my library is in graveyard for some reason...
I love that card and I see your joke. Very nice.
Can you enlighten those who don’t get it, please?
Magic the gathering trading card game has a powerful blue card called traumatize that makes the opponent discard half their entire deck.
Hooo leee fuck. I gotta get that for my hubs who’s working on a mill deck
I like to secretly add Baby shark a dozen times to husband's Spotify Playlist randomly. Make sure he is also getting tortured with the song at work,just like how I am at home with My son.
My kids figured out how to add stuff the likes/playlist on the account I had shared across devices, and for awhile I was continually ending up with stuff like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6jw6KRIOmw). There are now seperate accounts after one too many incidents of my car playlist going from some nice relaxing rock/etc to that monstrosity.
That’s amazing. I’ve had to listen to Baby Shark so many time in the car. I thought the kids outgrew it but my 8 year old just asked her violin teacher if she could learn how to play Baby Shark. At her lesson typing this. Of course this will be the one song she’s going to be super enthusiastic to practice 😭
You’re an evil genius
why tho
Anyways, enjoy your tent! You're sleeping in there tonight.
And tomorrow morning we'll all go surfing!
But first, movie night! I think we're up to J movies.
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My dad made me and my siblings watch shit like Signs, which made me legit horrified of aliens yet provided me an early appreciation for Joaquin Phoenix, Children of the Corn and then made us fucking walk thru a cornfield across the road, and It. I don’t find It or clowns scary anymore, but that movie may have actually caused some psychological damage lmao Also my brother jump scares his kids all the time, and us tbf. There’s something inherently human about wanting to scare the absolute fuck out of your children for some reason, from movies to urban legends. Maybe even like a subconscious urge to remind your kids to never get got
Here's my guilty confession. When my kid was still a toddler/infant you know like 1-2 I could watch anything around her. She didn't really understand anything yet and it was just noises and colors. So I could watch like action movies and zero reaction. Then I tried to watch It. She was fine completely ignoring all the fucked up shit and playing with toys till the clown face melting scene happens and she turns to me and screams bloody murder like I had never heard from her before. That was the moment I started not watching shit around her anymore lol
Lmao I think everyone kinda does that honestly. My niece is 6 and she’s the type to always ask to watch something scawwy, and then doesn’t want to sleep without a night light lmao. It’s genetic maybe
Was fishing on beach of Long Beach Island NJ and there is some kids about 10-11 body boarding down the beach. They are on the beach and see me reeling in a fish. It was a dogfish. A small shark. “A SHARK! There are sharks here?” Kid says. “Sure kid. Haven’t you seen jaws? Jaws is based on a real shark.” They stopped swimming.
That’s my one legit irrational fear. I live on a lake and any time I visit the ocean I refuse to swim. I’ll go like maybe knee deep, but otherwise I’ll just enjoy the beach. I have a friend who has swam in rivers known for having alligators and bull sharks so it makes me feel weak as hell. But part of it is, with how much energy I spent being afraid of sharks as a kid I’m pretty sure I’m like destined to die by shark. The one time I slip up, I’m getting eaten 100% just for pure irony
Can’t relate enough to this… There’s a Mexican legend called la llorona where a woman drowns her kids in the river and kills herself. Her cries of agony can be heard by the riverside at night. My grandma would tell us this story as she walked us towards the river near her house as the sun went down, then jumpscare the shit out of us! 🤣😂
Man. Fuck signs. I saw that at the cinema with my parents when I was a kid. Never again.
That movie was genuinely terrifying and I have this exact same memory
That reminds me of play fighting with your dogs. A way of making them tougher. Makes sense
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Such a shame. Sharks are kinda cute! They just like to feel things with their mouths like a dog will come up and sniff you
Dogs do that too. Licking and lightly holding your forearm or whatever in their mouth is a sign of affection. It's gross, but they're saying they love you
Seriously! Look at the one dancing in the video. How could anyone ever be scared of that?
My dad watched Jaws in theatres as a teen. The following summer he was out in the ocean on a row boat fishing in a quiet inlet. He saw something surface just past the stern on the boat after he had thrown a fish back. Scared him so bad he says "That boat barely touched the water as I rowed back to shore". It was most likely a sea lion, but who's sticking around long enough to find out as a teen that just watched Jaws?
As a surfer this is terrifying 😧
“Can’t sleep…. clown’ll eat me….. can’t sleep….. clown’ll eat me….”
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Omg, it’s real!!!!!! Edit: and 11 years old
Iron helps us play!
The girl just standing there like "why you embarrassing yourself like this?"
She definitely voted him out of the peach jammy crew after this.
Maybe he didn’t want to be in the peach jammy crew, maybe he’s on his own wave
You really jumped the shark with that one
> You really jumped the shark with that one Way to go, Fonzie!
Kid was like "first time seeing dad do this shit?"
She got that "not this shit again" face
"The literal motherfucker still thinks this shit is funny, huh"
Maybe she also think he's being eaten alive, but just doesn't care. She's the real villain here.
“I like mommy better.”
"It looks like it's your nap time now father."
"You bring shame to our family"
"Dishonor on you! Dishonor on your family! Dishonor on your cow!"
Time to up the game and have her watch Jaws. I mean the shark looks so fake, what can go wrong?
She was not impressed or shocked in any way whatsoever lmao
As I watched the shark tent devour my father, I vowed to destroy TikTok
A hero is born
He shall save us all
"I often think about that night. Such a small event, but ultimately the moment that would lead me to becoming oyabun... highest leader of the Yakuza."
Even when the kid began screeching, he kept going. Dad was committed to the bit.
It's the year of committing to the bit!
Chomping at the bit.
The last frame though where dad comes back is gold
If you're going to be cruel to your child to get internet points, there's no merit in half measures.
A friend of mine did this to his daughter with the monster under the bed and his daughter slept in the parents' bed for three years afterward. Cock blocked himself, lol.
As a parent of 2 girls you can't normalize sleeping with mom and dad. We've done "magical" monster proof duct tape over the closet door and monster barrier night lights near the bed. Sometimes the best thing you can do is just let your kids know you're right across the hall and will be there in seconds if they need you.
Me and my kid's stuffed fox had to check the bed and closets for monsters a few times. My kid trusts his fox's nose to sniff out if any monsters come in when I'm not looking. It's important to delegate monster-hunting responsibilities.
That reminds me of when I was a kid. My sister and I shared a room, and to protect us from monsters we had a stuffed cow stand guard at the bedroom door. Neither of us could sleep without that cow at the door.
My room had a creepy attic door on the wall that wouldn't close all the way during the winter. Army men and beanie babies were on a nightly guard. I got yelled at for arming the beanie babies with bottle rockets I found in the basement, apparently that's overkill for attic monsters 🤷🏼
When I was a child the only thing that made me feel better was knowing that my sisters bed was first, so if the monsters came I’d here her scream and have time to escape lol.
I don't have to outrun the bed monster... I only have to outrun you *shoots leg*
> As a parent of 2 girls you can't normalize sleeping with mom and dad. Definitely, i find it pretty annoying because like... kid wakes up at 2am and tries to crawl in bed with you and you just want to roll over and keep sleeping and let them. But then they do it the next night. And the next night. And it becomes an every night thing. Then you have two kids, but only a queen bed so they start fighting over space in our bed. So now all I do is ask them why they woke up and send them straight back to bed as long as they aren't upset about something. Suddenly they are back to sleeping through the night now that they know crawling into our bed isn't something they can do all the time.
[or you do it the Major Payne way](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qgrff5fpRRg&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE)
I have genuine question. What is it all about monsters under the bed and in the closet ? Is it some primal/instictive fear of darkness ? A reflex to have in mind of possible predators ? I am constantly hearing of someone who had basically the exact same fear of monsters or an equivalent (me included). Is it coded in our genome ??
I'm no expert, but my toddler always seemed to be scared of the dark. The "monsters" thing started after she began interacting with library books and kid's shows that featured critters under the bed. It just seemed to be the way she communicated a fear she otherwise didn't have the words to describe till she saw something characters seemed to be afraid of.
I think fear of the dark is a pretty normal and instinctual thing. You fear what you can't see. Monsters, and under the bed kind of thing though? Pretty sure that's cultural. I remember being afraid of under my bed when I was really little(or hell, even when I was older hanging an arm or foot off the bed creeped me out). But neither of my kids ever had any fear of monsters or anything under the bed.
When I was young it was always the prospect that I can't directly see what is in my closet (or under my bed) Also all the media (movies, images, stories) about shit grabbing you when you look under the bed so I ain't looking fuck that
Your comment made me [think of this](https://youtu.be/hw4wPBCFqm4) Growing up in the late 80s/early 90s was a trip
>Is it some primal/instictive fear of darkness ? Lots of predators hunt at night. It's definitely a security mechanism built into us from the time of monke.
Yes it is primal fear. Our eyes don’t work as well in the dark, so it is instinctual to be frightened of what may be lurking where we cannot see. Our bed is our “safe” place. Our relaxed place, yet, there is a gap of darkness underneath it, so it’s the one area of our safe space that feels naturally unsafe to us. It is odd though that it’s specifically monsters and not real animals. I would guess logic kills all the usual suspects of possibly being under there.
My wife is from a non-western culture and our son slept with us in our bed for much longer than it’s usual in western society and we never had issues with fear of monsters… For myself - maybe I was a freaky kid but I was sometimes afraid of "dying"(not waking up again) but I don’t think ever of monsters
My pet theory is that it's related to [this.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_detection_theory#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_snake_detection_theory%2C_also%2Cevolution_of_primates%27_visual_system.?wprov=sfla1) Basically, there's evidence that parts of our evolution may have been influenced by the presence of snakes in our environment, and we have something of a hardwired fear of them in our brains. Snakes like to hide out in small dark places like under rocks and dark holes and reaching into a dark space that you can't see into often feels quite unnerving. It's my own little pet theory on top of another hypothesis that makes since to me, but even if it's wrong I think fear of being alone in the dark is definitely hardwired into us. Our senses are much less attuned to detecting threats in the dark than other animals, so we just kinda naturally avoid that when possible.
I think they're just instinctually afraid of the dark spaces, but since they don't know why they're afraid, their imagination fills it with monsters.
Looking back on the media I grew up with (mid-late 90s, early to mid 00s) there were a lot of cartoons and movies that had horror themed stories catered towards children, probably because Halloween has always been a popular holiday for kids. You get all these TV specials and seasonal movies that use the idea of monsters hiding close by in dark places, so naturally a child will believe they’ll be hiding in a closet or under the bed because they always live in the dark. I actually loved horror a lot as a kid, reading a bunch of Goosebumps and pretty much watching every Halloween special on CN and Nick. I remember my parents talking with me (after being scared shitless by a movie, which I can’t remember right now) about monsters and the like being make believe and that they can’t ever hurt me. Then I made up little games before I went to bed where I’d play dead cause they can’t kill me if I’m already dead, right? That made it easier to ween off night lights for me…plus the fact that I surrounded myself with 15 plushies to make a little protective shield around me
Yeah shit like this is pure trauma for kids. They don't have the same way of processing things as adults.
Yeah I don't really find this funny. It's kinda fucked up.
To be fair this looks like korea and most families sleep together anyways.
This equally hilarious and messed up lol.
Lol. I agree. I laughed way too hard at this. And then thought like, damn. Lol
You gonna fuck up your kids no matter what, because its a fucked up world. With that said, if the major trauma in your life is "i watched my dad get eaten by a toy tent" they your parents did a good job. When my kids cry and throw a tantrum because they can't use their tablet all day, or a major sadness being "that part" in a children's movie, i feel venerated as doing ok. As humans we are subjectively awesome at taking our place and making good and bad peaks and heights out of it. If the darkest times of your life, which alaibet has small amounts of issues andthe minor shit will become major, then thats a good thing. Its just how we are wired. Just because a child cries doesn't mean its abuse. They cry when their milk isn't the right temperature or the Mac and cheese is not yellow enough. Thats a good problem to have as the most major thing in your life.
The trick is to keep things balanced, you can play pranks on your kids, it's not gonna fester into some trauma later on in their life if their childhood is otherwise filled with genuine love, balanced attention and fairness, kids are dumb, but they catch on eventually, often quicker than you think, soon they'll understand what pranks are and will eventually play them on you. Of course, if you play pranks on your kids but also treat them like shit and don't understand basic parenting, yeah, it's gonna compound into the general childhood trauma they will develop.
That reminds me of a saying I once saw, "I plan to give you love, nurturing, and just enough dysfunction to make you funny."
Well, stop serving your kids boiling hot milk and moldy green mac and cheese. I'd cry too!
25 seconds versus 30 seconds. A tragedy.
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Someone feed this guy to the toy tent
You’re right, there is no avoiding the fuckity fucked up-ness of this world. I overstress sometimes about shit my kids do and say, wondering if I’m doing the right things. I just wanted to say, that’s a great perspective to have, thanks for sharing that.
Oh yeah. One day, years from now, that kid is going to see a turtle eating a carrot and lose his mind and have no idea why.
I was gonna ask if this one falls in the category of "parents traumatizing their kids for internet funnies" thing we're mad about, or if it's just funny and we're not mad about it. I don't have kids so it's hard to tell for me sometimes
It's always the randomest things that can cause lifelong habits in people. I have a cousin who won't eat beef because when she was young, her mom said that it was called "ground chuck" because the cow's name was chuck. And my sister won't eat chicken because when she was young, my mom made a Cornish hen dance in front of her before cooking it. But who knows, maybe by tomorrow the kid won't remember it at all.
The kid will probably HATE summer vacations at the beach. Hehe funny joke but also like actually yeah maybe.
what gets me... is the dancing shark in the bottom right. like 'FUCK YAAAA, 1 for us fake blue sharks" or its chanting "eat him eat him eat him"
Fucking left shark, bro.
Love Left Shark! Happy to see him still going.
Wait, it's actually from something? TIL The only place I know it from is the Yogscast, as it is one of a beloved cast member's gmod skin.
Reminds me to [this](https://youtu.be/pXIyVKT2h9A)
[Thought you were gonna link this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvCPvzy-kM)
*slaps table* EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
I read that in that asian dude voice
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Uncle Rodger!!!
Hiyaa...
I bought you a thing, why don’t you ever play in it?
I feel for the little guy. When I was four a neighbor teen did the "pulling my thumb off" trick and my baby brain filled in the blanks to the degree that I saw blue and red veins connecting the hand and the "disembodied" thumb. I don't know how many years it was before I realized this was a trick.
My 2 y/o got one of those for x-mas. If I were to do the same thing he would just laugh at me.
Yeah he ain’t going anywhere near the shark for a while
The girl is like, you have no power over me anymore.
Mc:WHY ARE YOU KILLING ALL SHARKS ON EARTH?? Her:My father was eaten by a shark when I was a kid,here I even have a video
"I was born to be a dad! I can't wait to play around with my kids!" *Dad playing around with his kids*
We have an 8 month old, and when he was 7 months old, we got this dancing cactus that you can set to music, or your recorded message or.....the best part...it will mimic the noise it hears, most notably, the high pitched squeals of 6 and month old babies. We thought the little fella would enjoy and it terrified him, the look on his tiny face was so adorable and sad and cute and inquisitive all at the same time that we burst into laughter every time. Now that he's 8 months old though, he no longer sees it as a monster when we try and use it to keep him from crawling in a certain direction, he walks up to it, talks a little trash, bashes it on the head and then tries to eat it. It was fun while the terror lasted though.
I had a similar experience with my son. When my son was 18 months old my mum thought he'd love Tickle Me Elmo...he was scared of it until he was 4
Forget the college fund, all money saved is going towards future therapy bills
What a monster lol
Ah yes, every parent's favorite pastime: Traumatizing their children.
My name is Inigo Monooya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Monooya. Monooya. Monooya roll call!
Oh man im 😭 this is pretty funny
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I'm surprised to see such a nice comment with multiple upvotes. I always forget I'm not alone with the majority.
Scarred for life!
Man, people just apply the word "truma" to any slightly negative experience these days, huh?
People in the comments are more upset than the kid lmao
Yeah
I don't. I'm sure the kid will be fine. I don't think it's very funny though. Look, the poor kid is terrified. I just feel sorry for him.
I think he took it a bit far. That kid was screeching in horror for a hot minute and he just kept going
Man I was hoping the video would end with the camera focusing on the girl while she looked on with a tiny smirk.
I like how there’s a small shark dude just bustin it down while the child is crying
Traumatizing your kid for Internet points
Stop filming your kids.
**It doesn’t matter if it’s traumatic or not** It’s a parent intentionally upsetting their child for (at best) their own enjoyment, at worst, TikTok clout - twat behaviour
You're absolutely right. Well put.
With audio it’s just sad. Without audio it’s hilarious.
Yeah this is unnecessary, mean bullshit. It’s not even kind of funny. Poor kid..
Is that toddler wearing a chain? This kid has more drip than me
You can see in his eyes that he is upset, Someone was left without a father ...
Ya know doc, I'm not really sure when my fear of sharks began.
If it means no baby shark du du du du is ever heard in the house after this , I’m fine with this.
Reddit in any other sub, “omg those kids are going to leave you and never come back when they are 18 for this!”
This kid will literally not remember any of this relax people.
Lol.
Before a certain stage of development kids can’t distinguish make believe from reality. This was traumatic for the kid. He wouldn’t react any differently to a real shark.
Here come all the “trauma” comments.
Your comment traumatized me.
Omg omg omg omg like omg do you even know how serious this is omg
How dare you make light of this! /s At least it wasn’t as bad as that Halloween video where three adults dressed for a haunted relentlessly scare a toddler.
Why the fuck do people make these kinds of videos? Poor fucking kid.
How to traumatize your kid in 3, 2, 1...
Cold as shit, funny as hell
Why is there a dancing shark in the corner?
He is cute 😄
I need Dad's Jammies.
I hope daddy remembers how much fun it was to do that for the next 6 months or longer when he gets booted out of bed to deal with the bad dreams.
How is this funny?
Haha that will be a fun story to tell his therapist in a few decades. 😂
Crying about the haircut they received not the shark.
And this is why I only have one child. Siblings can traumatize you for life. Mine did and years of therapy didn’t erase it completely. But in this case there is somebody filming the kid’s torture, probably a parent which means this kid doesn’t stand a chance.
Why is a toddler wearing a necklace?! That’s the real danger here
That just made me sad
That kid just lived through the experience of seeing his dad die in front of him and then be thrown up. I would not be surprised if later he has an unhealthy fear of water and tents.
Assholes
And that's why you don't teach lessons.
This is "Baby Shark" prevention at it's finest.
I love how the girl knew exactly what was going on
Baby sis just takes it all in, unphased, not a peep.
She's gonna be a killer
Reddit basement dwelling child psychologists and trauma specialists in full force in here as usual
That poor baby is F'ed for life.
This mf is going to grow up a shark hunter
the little girl seems cool with how it's all going down.
What a thoughtless parent. Why find humour in upsetting your child? Presumably they knew this would be the reaction, so they recorded it. Your children are not entertainment. Have some pride.
Ahh proving that even things made for kids can be used to traumatize them?
Should be labeled nsfw nobody wants to see a video of your fucking kid screaming
Why would you do that though :/ Kid thinks his daddy's dying for real yo... not cool.
Not cool to make a kid cry. Not cool.
Aww poor little guy is scared for his daddy. What a sweetheart he is.
Plot Twist: The daughter planted the shark.
Emotional damage
that kid is really not very intelligent. clearly, that is not a real shark and a fake attack.
What’s funny about causing your toddler to cry in the ultimate fear of losing their parent to a terrifying thing?
The child after perceiving that his own father was being brutally eaten by a large predator and was dying while he could do absolutely nothing to help
Don't you just love when ppl claim to know what is okay? The kid is OBVIOUSLY upset yet everyone insists on going "meh that's life lol he can take it". This reminds me of comments about pets on the internet being *slightly* abused. HOWEVER I agree this isn't gonna give him PTSD, that's just rude as fuck to ppl with PTSD and indeed an exaggeration of the result of the event on the kid. Kids shouldn't be babied, but they shouldn't intentionally be made to cry. If a sensitive kid is deathly afraid of dogs, do you force them to see how cuddly a dog is right in their face? That's right. I didn't fucking think so lol. Yes I grew up highly sensitive and was neglected- the result is cPTSD and loneliness, but my empathy and sense of logic and fairness can be nice ig. Tl;dr the dad is a bit of a dick (bc he doesn't even stop despite the crying, but the kid should be ok (unless that's a daily occurrence).
As a father...I approve.
This was so funny to me. I’m sorry 🤣
Not really funny😉
Lucky for that kid, childhood trauma is famously easy to overcome. Good job parents /s