Poltergeist when I was 4 back in the 80s. Then when I was 9 (still in the 80s) my best friend made me watch Puppet Master III at a sleepover. I rarely watch horror movies now.
My dad took us to see the EXORCIST when I was 7. To this day- TO THIS DAY- when I see someone’s head turn completely around, it scares the piss outta me.
For almost 95% of human history we have been literally living in fear of predators and we got this far. Now something like this will turn a child into a damaged snowflake. Relativity
And there’s gonna be way stronger of perceived danger when technology allows you to put a scary object behind you and make it follow you and touch your shoulders. That shit is probably so real to a 7 year old. They don’t understand shit.
Do you think 8 year olds running from a sabertooth didn’t traumatize them? And do you think a 7 year old knows how to distinguish real danger from fake but seemingly real danger? No lol. “Well I know it’s not real as a 35 year old, so the 7 year old shouldn’t fear it”. Exactly what the parents think. “So I’m going to create an artificial danger for their highly susceptible mind”
Yeah caused by physical abuse, inappropriate abuse, verbal and mental abuse not scary ghost graphics. Down playing actual sources of trauma is not helpful. Spirit Halloween store is far more terrifying than this and unfortunately people bring tiny children in there. Is that trauma inducing? Is telling spooky stories trauma inducing?
So the type of parent who doesn’t care whether or not their kids get terrified and purposefully puts them in situations like this probably finds it easy to do frequently. One prank probably won’t cause trauma but repeatedly doing stuff like this is going to change a persons wiring to end up as insecure adults. I think it takes a messed up person to think that making people/animals scared on purpose is funny
If a by like age 10 a child can't tell the difference from a parent who loves them and pranks them vs an abusive parent there are bigger developmental issues going on. Before then... Are these parents also shielding them from iPads and phones? Using that is much scarier than a little ghost graphic. There's real horrors in this world and fake ones. Educate them to know the difference.
Yes like the real horror of fucking a vaccinated person right? That deleted post was like 4 years ago though so hopefully you've educated yourself by now
🤣 whenever someone goes into the archives the logic of said post doesn't hold up. Like name calling in a debate lol. I thought my posts were hidden anyways wtf
Hidden profiles are very entertaining! Even deleted things can be found it’s good to know.
What you said about kids having bigger issues if they can’t tell the difference between abuse and harmless pranks wasnt entirely wrong. It can be hard though to see when abuse is happening. My parents loved me but were neglectful because they have their own issues and it had followed me my whole life. I didn’t realize what they did was wrong until well after college I just thought I was always wrong about feelings.
Seeing people get enjoyment from kids being afraid must be sort of triggering for me I guess
Yeah well 🤷♂️ thanks for reminding me everyone needs to be reminded of digital footprint once in a while lol sigh... Whyyyyyyyyyyyy
I'm sorry that you had those experiences. I get feeling a certain resonance with the issue and wanting to speak your mind on it I'm not trying to invalidate your experience I don't know you or what you've been through, but I wish you the best.
As for the videos, I don't even think people should be putting their children online, but the video was one snapshot of their life. These could be the most gentle parents ever and maybe this is them disciplining their children lol (like why did that one little kid stick his middle finger up LOL and one yelled shut up to her mom before the door shut). We really don't know. There's a certain humor I think it's necessary when you're with children. And besides that, most children hear scary urban legends or stories at some point or another and that has happened through out the entirety of history. Grimms fairy tales are terrifying. There's some psychological need for it to reinforce being close with your tribe. The children felt safe enough to run to their mom and I'm some of the videos the parent opened the door.
i went to school with a kid whose parents locked him inside a dark room for days. 30 years have passed, he still talks to no one (good humble person, but with severe child trauma)
note: he talks, but he chose not to talk or trust anyone ..... nowadays we have the internet and ppl think this is funny
still I dont think this kind of prank is good for a kids brains, there is a reason we dont let kids watch horror movies (ironically, we let them play GTA V) :\
You should ask yourself why you think this is harmless. Some kids are clearly distressed, upset, scared for no reason. Then they find their parent laughing at them. They find out their parents thought it was funny to make them feel awful and they want other people to laugh at them as well.
I think it’s good to cultivate resilience, to be able to see outside yourself and not take yourself seriously all the time, but there are certainly better ways to do this than by inducing such a negative experience in young children.
A guy I have worked with for years used to do this shit to his kids when they were small and now wonders why they have so many trust issues as teens. Hmm, it's a mystery 🤔
I had a single bad dream when I was 4 that there was a witch in my parent's bedroom that tried to steal me and I didn't go in there alone untill I was 9.
I absolutely know that I will not be sucked down the drain in my bath tub, nor will I in a swimming pool etc., but I still get a shock of fear when I am near any of them while bathing or swimming.
I was taking too long in the bath when I was like, 5, and my grandma told me I'd get sucked down the drain when she unplugged it while I was still in the bath.
So yeah scaring them like that can absolutely alter their poor little developing brains for life.
An entire generation survived the exorcist ghost car commercial and the scary maze game as elementary schoolers. Not every jump scare is permanent brain trauma good grief Reddit lmao
Got my degree in psychology. Stop being a little bitch. The child will likely not remember this in a week. With the amount of technology they see every day. With every new interaction the children will be fine.
Isn’t it a psychology thing that not everyone reacts to being scared the same way? Some of these kids might forget, some may be traumatized. Won’t know until later.
yeah there's no blanket statement that can be made here. my brother and sister and parents would do shit like this and i'm completely fine and hold nothing against them.
my parents forced me to go on the tower of terror when i was super young and i didn't speak to them for like 2 hours. fortunately i realized that it was just a fun scary ride and got over it. now i look back at it as a hilarious story.
some people just take that kind of stuff way too personally imo but again, can't make blanket statements here, everyone's different
You need to learn not to be anxious about things that aren’t real and pose no real threat to you. You learn not to be gullible as to believe everything you see on a device screen.
And you think that with parents like this who prefer internet attention at the expense of scaring their child, they are going to learn that?
I see what you’re saying for the most part but you seem to miss that every person is completely different and while most people won’t be bothered by something like this there are some that it can really mess with.
If the parents plan is to scare them and maybe teach them through it then yeah, you may have a point but come on, no one here is doing that and a 5 year old child isn’t going to do that on their own.
I grew up going to haunted houses at amusement parks and Halloween spook walks. None of us were traumatized. This is nothing more than a modern version of that.
Let life do that naturally, you don’t need your parents scaring you to learn that. These are young children and it can affect their daily lives far greater than it would ours. As a child I was shown very bloody scenes from either jaws or some other shark movie by a close relative when I was 5-6ish. I was petrified of water afterward and developed sleeping problems. I would tense up every time I showered or peed out of fear, and my mom accompanied me until I stopped. By the time I was 6-7ish the fear got less severe, but I’ve never gotten over my fear of deep water, and sharks are one of my favorite animals now! My point is, children are not going to catch on to the lesson you’re assuming they will. You can explain it to them, but they will loose trust in you. They most likely will develop fears that will mess with them and may stick with them as adults. Children already develop enough trauma in childhood from peers or other experiences, don’t intentionally do this to children. Life will beat down on them in childhood and as they get older, your job is to guide them. Be your children’s safe space to go for guidance. Remember, fears like this also affect their schooling and social lives amongst their peers, it’s not just at home. Children that develop sleeping problems will struggle in school.
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u/Grouchy-Humor2138 1d ago
Should never do this to a child. The fever and trauma will get permanently embedded into their brains.