Reason #304: Grandma wouldn’t let him spill his ice water all over her and the table.
This Tumblr is a compilation of all the strange things that kids cry over. Depending on if you’re a parent or not, this Tumblr might make you laugh or cry along with him. Interested folks can head over to the full Tumblr to see the rest. And let us know what you think in the comments — Funny? Heartbreaking? Other?
I wouldn’t let him drown in this pond.
I closed the refrigerator door.
We helped him put on the boots he loves to wear.
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I felt like it would have been very different if it would have been “He’s crying because he scraped his knee, how stupid” or “He’s crying because a girl broke his heart, how dumb”. That would have been lampooning his pain and enforcing the “boys don’t cry” thing. I suppose if you look at it in isolation it might come off as, “My kid is crying, how stupid”, but that’s not at all how I took it. I didn’t think it wasn’t “genius” because it points out pain, it was genius because of what it helps me recognize as a… Read more »
If the examples above are representative of the source site, then I agree w/ Deanna, it doesn’t strike me as being heartless or shaming. To me, it’s about being able to laugh at some of the seriously stupid reasons little ones cry, and I say this as a father who faces such crying at least a couple dozen times a day with twin preschooler daughters, and has pretty much their entire lives to this point. Laughing is the *best* way to cope with it, and I commend anyone who can do that, because other options include anger and depression. There… Read more »
Marcus – you seem to think that it’s only the parents viewing a Tumblr – there are quite a few sick people out there who get pleasure out of other pain. Abuse is often a spectrum – and as many have finally figured out with the net, you don’t need to be present to be abusive.
I just hope that the Dad is real happy and not in any way using his kids cries to fill any form of void in his life – cos that would be abusive!
1. I don’t think only parents view this page, but I do think parents are the target demographic. 2. There’s the sadistic kind of getting pleasure out of others’ pain, which I don’t think this qualifies as. There’s also schadenfreude, which is the kind of “pleasure in people’s pain” that makes slapstick funny, as well as most of “America’s Funniest Home Videos”. I think that’s ordinary, not sick, and I think this page falls into this category. 3. The notion that this page could be evidence of a dad “using his kids cries to fill any form of void in… Read more »
I do find it interesting that there is such focus upon the dad and the crying kid. I look at the images and notice something else, There is a yet another child involved and even watching. I do have to wonder at what he’s learning.
The idea that it might be educational in some way to those who don’t have children is one that I hadn’t thought of and I can see the merit in. If it has helped those without children to be more understanding when there is a crying toddler in their midst then that is a good point. I feel it is a good point in an otherwise bleak exercise. I have been a parent several times over and I do have an appreciation of the black humour and on occasion it is the only thing that keeps you sane, but there… Read more »
There is a huge and absolutely fucking selfish movement of people these days willing to post all the embarassing shit about their kids because these parents feel they own the kid, instead of you know…respecting their privacy? Posting your kid up on the net at this age when they don’t have any ability to consent is fraught with such issues of is it ok to do? Is it in the best interest of the kid? What happens when he hits school and his classmates see this shit? Facebook, etc give instant access to a world of bullying n torment, with… Read more »
I see the hectoring and shaming of males has now begun to target toddlers. Pathetic. I’d suggest a ‘humiliate your toddler daughter site’ but it’s just wrong. Outright.
But it may have a darker side. The son at the butt of all the jokes will one day be old enough to apply to college, or interview for a job, or be bullied mercilessly by his peers. And this site, which he clearly has not sanctioned or chosen to be a part of, will forever live on through the permanence of the Internet. Source I do wonder if it would all be so comical and hilarious if a father was seen to be mocking his daughters tears in the same way? I hate to think how some would frame… Read more »
Like the video of President Obama at the White House Easter egg hunt, attempting to get a little boy to stop crying.
I agree with Samantha. I have small kids, they cry – sometimes over things which I think are trivial/ridiculous (they wanted a whole slice of bread, didn’t tell me before after I cut it in half and then cries), but I try very hard to acknowledge and not trivialize/ridicule what they cry over even – and perhaps especially – when I can’t or won’t allow/get them what they want. The next paragraph is harsh, but well deserved. I suspects what really will happen to this family is that the last picture will be of the boy crying when he discovered… Read more »
“It will be the last picture, not because of the parents realizing that this was wrong, but because the boy have truly learned the lesson not to ever cry in the presence of his parents. He has learned well that his tears are for laughs and that a count of “notes” on Tumblr mattered more than his privacy and integrity.
I bet it isn’t a coincident that this is a boy mocked in this way given the way “boy’s don’t cry” permeates our society.”
AMEN x a gazillion
gazillion squared.
I disagree. I don’t find it genius, I had it sent to me because friends thought I might find it funny, having a son this age myself. I just found it sad that this kids has so much frustration and that his parents find it humorous and post it on the internet. I think as parents we should think before mocking our kids publicly for the sake of a couple of laughs
Imagine if the parents made a habit of mocking a daughter? this kind of gendered behaviour reinforces patriarchy by punishing males more often and treating daughters delicate. It is also disrespectful of males.
April is National (US) Child Abuse Prevention Month! Parent humiliates child and abuses child for joke and Internet notoriety. Myths and facts about child abuse and neglect MYTH #1: It’s only abuse if it’s violent. MYTH #2: Only bad people abuse their children. MYTH #3: Child abuse doesn’t happen in “good” families. MYTH #4: Most child abusers are strangers. Now lets change a few ages and have the toddler aged 12 and the parent aged 12 – and it’s called abuse and bullying…. but of course it’s male on male so it don’t count. Now if it was male on… Read more »