Have you seen the video of the dad who decides his little boy has been sleeping too long? He takes a loaded water gun, stalks through the house chanting the Doom theme, and then lets him have it. Pow, pow, pow, right in the back.
Surprise, surprise, it's gone viral. Not surprising? People actually approve of what this dad did to his poor little guy. Thousands of them.
The video is almost a year old (although it just surfaced on the front page of Reddit yesterday), and it has nearly half a million "likes" on YouTube. Kind of depressing, isn't it? Wait, here, let me show you the video before I explain just why this guy is not funny or likeable:
OK, now that you've heard the poor kid crying, I have a question for you. Would you want to be woken up that way? No? Me neither. So why should it be done to a poor kid? And why would you laugh?
I get it, kids are small. They are easy targets for adults who feel like being a-holes.
But kids are people. They have feelings. And the first thing parents should think about when they go to do something to their kids shouldn't be "OMG, will I get a million hits on YouTube." It should be "would I be OK with someone doing this to me?"
So I ask it again: would you be OK with someone walking into your room and blasting you out of a dead sleep with a continuous stream of water?
I'm not some hardass here. I've been put to my limits by a cranky sleeper. Between road trips and childcare changes and playdates and late-night community concerts and catching fireflies and everything else that goes with summer, my kid's routine has been shot all to hell. Disturb her, and I may have to question your dedication to life on this planet. The other day, I kid you not, I offered her a donut in exchange for getting out of the hotel bed so we could get on the road and get back home.
I'm not proud of it. But at least I don't feel like my kid will have to go therapy over it in 20 years.
So be honest, when is the last time you stopped and thought: "Would I like what I'm doing to my kid if it were done to me?"
Image via MrJibaku/YouTube
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"The other day, I kid you not, I offered her a donut in exchange for getting out of the hotel bed so we could get on the road and get back home" Wow! You're just Supermom aren't you? Moron.
Am I the only one who thinks it sounds like the kid is laughing?
Oh jeez... it was funny and cute and the boy was laughing and giggling. Way to over react! smdh
I would have loved to have my parents wake me up with a squirt gun when I was a child. Hell yes I would do it to my kids too, why, because I know my kids would love it. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but do you really have to go so far as to say any child who got woken up that way you feel they will need therapy? Come on, like bribing is so much better right? But hell, why not stop having fun our kids all together just because they might need therapy in the future. For one, you raise your kids the way you want to, and if I feel like being silly and want to wake my kids up in a fun fashion then I will do so, stop being so quick to judge about how another parent wake their kid up, or punishes them, or hell even raise them just because it's not how you would do it.
Seriously?! You guys are WAY overreacting. That little boy is NOT crying and if he is...that is fussing not a real sad cry. I'm pretty sure if he was truely sad that Dad would not continue! He is not hurting him or causing him any harm at all. I have been woken up like that and in no way did it scar me. Have a sense of humor about things.
I'm sorry but I watched the video closely and I saw the boy move before the Dad started shooting him with water. That means that he was probably asked to get up and was refusing, so the Dad took to finding a different way to rouse him. Also.. crying? Seriously? I'm a parent as well and I know the difference between crying and laughing. He was quietly giggling, which caused the Dad to laugh as well. I'm sure that's not the first time they've had a water fight, this time, it was just inside. Trust me, you're worried about a little water scarring the kid, when there are MUCH worse ways a parent could wake up their kids and cause them harm. I think the Dad took a fun approach to encouraging his son to get out of bed and do something productive, like play!