Roro posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVBfMMMUsGs
Just listen to the crack of her arms as it unbreaks.
EDIT: Christ, I forgot how graphic that was. For reference sake, I was about 9-10 when this advert came out I think. hosed me up something rotten, had to mute the tv when it came on.

belt posted:

So apparently 30 is the perfect spot when you just want to teach them a lesson.

chitoryu12 posted:

Okay buy you're kinda missing the point of what I said? Kids loving up and hurting themselves is normal and an important part of learning about how the world works and how to navigate dangers. I'm talking about when parents are like "You know what? gently caress my kid's implicit trust in me. I'm going to give them sponges for their birthday and make fun of them when they get upset."

It's not a whole lot different from bullying them in school, just minus any physical beatings.

ayn rand hand job posted:

here is a cake that involved nothing going soul crushingly wrong for the kid



Schadenfreude: the kid wanted a MLP cake

ayn rand hand job posted:

here is a cake that involved nothing going soul crushingly wrong for the kid



Schadenfreude: the kid wanted a MLP cake

Bundle of Keys posted:

murder all bronies

Kramjacks posted:

Can a 9 year old be a brony?

Crow Jane posted:

When I was six or so, my folks threw me a surprise birthday party. All my friends from the neighborhood were there, as well as lots of relatives. And... a clown, which I had always been scared to death of. My parents had paid a clown to come into our house.There are pictures of me at the party, I'm smiling but my little eyes are full of fear. I asked my mom about it years later, she said she had wanted to get me over my fear of clowns by introducing me to a nice one. Plus she thought it would be funny. Tbh, my parents kind of own, even if I didn't fully appreciate their sense of humor til I was a bit older.

I'm not overly scared of clowns anymore, but I did grow up to be a poster on the Something Awful forums, so clearly something went wrong somewhere.

chitoryu12 posted:

It's not "Children are incredibly fragile and will be broken if they suffer any hardship ever." The problem is that kids implicitly and unconditionally trust authority figures like their parents, and you can cause some major rifts if you gently caress with them for laughs. Not every kid ends up with problems, but it's a really easy way to do it.

The absolute worst is if they have autism. A coworker of mine has an autistic son, who I know because he occasionally comes in to do menial jobs like shredding and dividing cards and booklets into smaller piles. He's incredibly gullible, to the point where his mom had to teach him "Sometimes, people are mean and are encouraging you to do something just because they want to laugh at you" because he's 15 and other students could still tell him poo poo like "The principal said you need to go stand on your head in the corner" and he'd just walk over and do it. But at the same time, she'll tell him incredibly unbelievable lies that he immediately believes until you tell him that it was just a joke. She does this because she knows how gullible he is and wants a laugh. I've been trying and failing to discourage her from counteracting her own attempts to stop him from being so easily hosed with.

chitoryu12 posted:

Okay buy you're kinda missing the point of what I said? Kids loving up and hurting themselves is normal and an important part of learning about how the world works and how to navigate dangers. I'm talking about when parents are like "You know what? gently caress my kid's implicit trust in me. I'm going to give them sponges for their birthday and make fun of them when they get upset."

It's not a whole lot different from bullying them in school, just minus any physical beatings.

Crow Jane posted:

If I had kids, I would totally subscribe to the Calvin's Dad school of parenting.

syscall girl posted:

Calvin's Dad plays awesome mind games on him, not pushing his face into cake with a nice baby head shaking move.

Crow Jane posted:

Hobbes totally would, though. It takes a village.

Roro posted:

For something a bit lighter, weddings! And how they gently caress up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eht9YOoD0v0

Noctone posted:

A (probably unhealthily) large part of my desire to have a kid someday is so I can troll the gently caress out of them for my own amusement.

chitoryu12 posted:

It's not "Children are incredibly fragile and will be broken if they suffer any hardship ever." The problem is that kids implicitly and unconditionally trust authority figures like their parents, and you can cause some major rifts if you gently caress with them for laughs. Not every kid ends up with problems, but it's a really easy way to do it.

The absolute worst is if they have autism. A coworker of mine has an autistic son, who I know because he occasionally comes in to do menial jobs like shredding and dividing cards and booklets into smaller piles. He's incredibly gullible, to the point where his mom had to teach him "Sometimes, people are mean and are encouraging you to do something just because they want to laugh at you" because he's 15 and other students could still tell him poo poo like "The principal said you need to go stand on your head in the corner" and he'd just walk over and do it. But at the same time, she'll tell him incredibly unbelievable lies that he immediately believes until you tell him that it was just a joke. She does this because she knows how gullible he is and wants a laugh. I've been trying and failing to discourage her from counteracting her own attempts to stop him from being so easily hosed with.

Noctone posted:

A (probably unhealthily) large part of my desire to have a kid someday is so I can troll the gently caress out of them for my own amusement.

syscall girl posted:

If your parents didn't they were neglectful.

chitoryu12 posted:

Okay buy you're kinda missing the point of what I said? Kids loving up and hurting themselves is normal and an important part of learning about how the world works and how to navigate dangers. I'm talking about when parents are like "You know what? gently caress my kid's implicit trust in me. I'm going to give them sponges for their birthday and make fun of them when they get upset."

It's not a whole lot different from bullying them in school, just minus any physical beatings.

chitoryu12 posted:

Okay buy you're kinda missing the point of what I said? Kids loving up and hurting themselves is normal and an important part of learning about how the world works and how to navigate dangers. I'm talking about when parents are like "You know what? gently caress my kid's implicit trust in me. I'm going to give them sponges for their birthday and make fun of them when they get upset."

It's not a whole lot different from bullying them in school, just minus any physical beatings.

Lincoln`s Wax posted:

So how long did you stand on your head for?

kizudarake posted:

If they ever perfect a time machine, I'm going back in time to the 1800s and deposit a hundred dollars into a bank account. I'm then going to travel forward in time to the year you were born and offer your parents all the money from the account to prank you in some manner every week from age two until you graduate high school.

Noctone posted:

A (probably unhealthily) large part of my desire to have a kid someday is so I can troll the gently caress out of them for my own amusement.

bobjr posted:

Say Nothing posted:

Malachite_Dragon posted:

The first one was funny but I think this might have actually injured the kid

Crow Jane posted:

When I was six or so, my folks threw me a surprise birthday party. All my friends from the neighborhood were there, as well as lots of relatives. And... a clown, which I had always been scared to death of. My parents had paid a clown to come into our house.There are pictures of me at the party, I'm smiling but my little eyes are full of fear. I asked my mom about it years later, she said she had wanted to get me over my fear of clowns by introducing me to a nice one. Plus she thought it would be funny. Tbh, my parents kind of own, even if I didn't fully appreciate their sense of humor til I was a bit older.

I'm not overly scared of clowns anymore, but I did grow up to be a poster on the Something Awful forums, so clearly something went wrong somewhere.

Nuebot posted:

"It seemed like a good idea at the time!" It kind of looks like he breaks the closet door a bit with his spine, one of the slats looks a bit knocked loose. He's either laughing or crying after that.