What do you do when you have had enough of a child’s inconsolable behavior? This family makes the most of it.
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There’s a popular video making the rounds of parenting sites and social media streams featuring a fairly impressive tantrum by a 6-year-old girl (off camera) and her dad mocking it for comic relief. The rest of the family finds his lip-syncing to be pretty hilarious, and a good portion of the Internet appears to agree, but if I’ve learned anything from my online course in online relations, it’s that negativity abounds, usually in the comment section. Needless to say, some people think that it isn’t very cool of parents to make fun of their kid, regardless of the epic drama said child may be causing.
What do you think of Dad’s performance? Is it funny or not?
Regardless of where you fall on the judging of others, I think we can all agree that this little girl has got some pipes!
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Video: YouTube/Kathy Sterner
Silly
Stupid
I think it’s hard to judge this without context. Is this child doing this for the first time and being mocked in a cruel way? Has this child done this multiple times and it’s become routine? Is this child crying over something that’s making them genuinely upset or is it just a temper tantrum? Are the other children going to tease her later for this? Does the father tease the boys in the same way? There’s no way to judge this without knowing the family life. Personally, I come from a home with 4 girls 1 boy and our parents… Read more »
It would have been funny if the other child wasn’t in the frame. If Dad had kept it between himself and Mom. Tantrums are exhausting and sometimes it is therapeutic for parents to laugh at them. We have to. But we have to keep that between ourselves and not show our hand to our other children. And we definitely shouldn’t video that laughter and put it on the Internet.
I could mention something about how shaming the girl like this cuts to the core, but that is not what was asked of us. Therefore I’ll simply state: No, not funny.
This father needs his head examined. No wonder the child is crying, the father is teaching the other children to be cruel instead of loving and teaching the girl her feelings have no value. Totally disgusting.