r/SipsTea • u/jaywritethekid • 1d ago

Wait a damn minute! Bruh...

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u/Practical-Bit9905 1d ago

My kid's are flourishing. They're adults. Happily married, one well employed the other self employed.

Yeah. telling a young child to go into a room and set them up to be scared while you hold the door shut? That's some demented shit. Says more about the "parent" than anything else.

You sound not only like a shit parent. But a shit human.

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u/HatAvailable5702 1d ago

You're kids are too old to be relevant to this discussion then. Scaring the crap out of a kid and then immediately anchoring that fear onto the device itself is a good thing.

Parent should be doing this often even. Why? Because maybe if they are really lucky the kid wont even want to be in the same room with a phone. Can you imagine? It may be the cure needed to counteract the addiction to the dopamine hits that they get from the device.

Could be onto something here. You're grandchildren wont be able to benefit from that though, their phones will little happy feel good places where they can get all their safety and warm fuzzy feelz.

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u/Amy47101 1d ago

Alrighty, I'll step into the ring. I work in childcare.

Would you be super okie-dokey okay with this if I set up the tablet with this filter, told one of the kids under my care to go into the bathroom, then held the door shut while they screamed and cried to get out?

These kids are, after all, ranging from 3-6 years old. Perfectly relevant to the conversation.

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u/HatAvailable5702 1d ago

There's lots of stuff I dont want a random childcare attendant doing with my children that I reserve as exclusive to family. Tickling is one. Helping them to decide their gender is one, but the list is endless I'm sure youre aware.

Point is, there are lots of activities that are ethical for family members to do that are simultaneously unethical for a childcare attendant to do, do you agree with that?