r/SipsTea • u/jaywritethekid • 1d ago

Wait a damn minute! Bruh...

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u/mefree1960 15h ago

Unpopular opinion: Our children are gifts, they are the future, not here for our amusement or to be terrorized. This is pathetic.

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u/Future_Dog8306 14h ago

Is this… abuse?

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u/Longjumping_College 14h ago

Maybe not in the legal definition, but every one of these parents just permanently lost their kids trust

You cannot repair that, this is absolutely not how you raise kids

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u/MrDeadbutdreaming 13h ago

You saying that made me think of this.

I saw a thing once, where someone talked about how as we grow up we learn not to trust society, cause as an adult you find out everyone was lying to you about the Easter bunny and Santa Claus, if society will come together to lie about these goofy things why wouldn't they also lie about more serious things.

Honestly, ever since I heard that, I have looked at holidays differently.

Edit: am I remembering a George Carlin set?

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u/Alert-Theme1145 2h ago

If folks were smart enough to apply that logic to the bigger fairy tales, this world would be a much better place.

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u/Ren_stevens 12h ago

Permanently? The dramatics

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u/Straight_Car9819 11h ago

Do you have kids? My 20 yo daughter loooves to remind me about every single time i failed her when she was little. Things i don't even remember doing (or not doing). She remembers everything. So, not sure if that's a exaggeration. My daughter makes it seem like that time i forgot to write her a good luck note on her first day of preschool scarred her for life...

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u/infinite_in_faculty 10h ago

My sister is like this remembers everything and holds a hard grudge, Lol.

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u/Straight_Car9819 1h ago

Yep, that sounds about right. The funny thing is that (for the most part) we get along just fine- my daughter's always asking me to hang out with her, wants my opinion on stuff, but when she's mad at life.. oh boy. She pulls out her little "box of memories", and somehow it's always my fault that she's the way she is.
And for the record - i also found this 'trend' appalling. I'd never purposely cause my children anguish like this.

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u/Ren_stevens 11h ago

I don't know you or you kid. I do know everyone was a kid at some point. Is that how you feel about your parents? If I'm beefing with a parent (& I do), it's not over a harmless prank. Some people are obviously more drastic than others though.

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u/BaBbBoobie 7h ago

Honestly, depending on what those "failings" are, I can only think of a very limited amount of circumstances where I would do that shit to my parents. No shit you weren't perfect in handling every situation. Neither will she if/when she has kids. That's life.

If your last sentence is true, that sounds so petulant to me. Are you meant to apologize for that?

Something like this video? Give me a break.

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u/Comfortable-Side1308 12h ago

And "every one".

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u/Seekersleeker 12h ago

Exactly. This is how immature parents ruin their children by desensitizing them to traumatic occurrences.

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u/r0bdaripper 9h ago

Lost their kids trust permanently? That's laughable my parents intentionally tried to scare us and I still trust them. What we don't see here is the parents reassuring their children and I can guarantee based on a few of those kids reactions that they needed more than a few soothing words afterwards. And your probably right that temporarily those kids will not trust their parents who did this but they will get over it eventually as long as it's not a reoccurring thing.

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u/BigEntertainment4191 0m ago

No they didn't lmao my parents did the same shit during holloween season people are just to fucking sensitive

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u/WorstSupport4Real 9h ago

Every single one? Permanently? Lmao

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u/ResultIntelligent856 9h ago

omg what a snowflake take hahaha

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u/PersonRealHuman 13h ago

Can we please take the phones away from adults.

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u/RustyBungus 4h ago

Can we please take the man/woman children away from the phones and put them in a box?

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u/jetpacksforall 8h ago

Well let's see here... they terrified their kids, humiliated them, tricked them, filmed the whole thing and posted it online for fake internet points. I'm not seeing any parenting awards in their future.

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u/PeopleCallMeSimon 6h ago

Does it have to be abuse to be pathetic and bad?

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u/CuriousButNotJewish 14h ago

No, pranks are as old as time and most of the people screaming "abuse" are WORD1WORD2NUMBER bots. Yourself included.

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u/milk_for_dinner 13h ago

Beating your wife and children was also old as time. It's not an argument.

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u/1_more__user___name 11h ago

So stupid. Let's then forbid all pranks because pranks like beating are as old as time.

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u/Future_Dog8306 13h ago

Beep boop. I am a robot. I have been discovered. I am incapable of also making jokes and light of situations. Beep boop.

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u/Practical-Cream-2837 13h ago

ah, so as long as someone has no numbers in their username then they're a real person.

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u/miltondelug 13h ago

not in a society where clicks are more valued than relationships.

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u/Adjective-Noun4201 13h ago

I'm gonna click upvote on your comment

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u/Ryrose81 13h ago

I prefer not to damage my children

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u/surfermark99 12h ago

Yes. It is emotional abuse.

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u/TJames6210 12h ago

I vote...Yes, yes it is.

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u/Asleep-Shelter-4456 10h ago

Emotional abuse yeah

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u/Kvchx 11h ago

Nah it's not abuse, it's being a dick to your kids. It happens sometimes, no one's perfect. As long as you realise it afterward and work it out with your child it's okay.

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u/Exotic-Ad515 11h ago

Yes it is. Parents are allowed to intentionally terrorize their children.