Well, it's just american "cheese". Not really sure it counts as "food", let alone cheese.
The difference is that you'd be using your child for internet points. The child's perspective of what the fuck is going on is not an excuse.
And sharing funny videos on the internet is worse than sharing funny videos on tv? The childs perspective is 100% relevant since many posters claim its causing undue stress on the child and breaking their trust in the parent.
Americans Funniest Home Videos had many winners where the kids were being embarassed on TV, sometimes due to the parents deliberately pranking them.
So it's OK if the parents do it? You'd no be offended if a stranger did it to your kid and posted it on the internet? It's just cheese it didn't hurt them.
So it's OK if the parents do it? You'd no be offended if a stranger did it to your kid and posted it on the internet? It's just cheese it didn't hurt them.
Are you serious right now? Before doing anything with your own child you think a parent needs to think "Ok, would i be ok if a stranger did this with them, if not then maybe i shouldnt do it". I dont want a stranger playing hide and seek with my child, does that mean i shouldn't partake in it?
And another one.Is there some minstrel running down streets throwing pieces of cheese at kids?
You do realize there is a show thats been running for 20 years that basically exists due to people doing funny things with their kids that may or many not upset them? Thankfully people can tell the difference between harmless fun and needing to question the parenting ability of an adult therefore the show can exist.
From the childs perspective there is no difference between me throwing a bib or wash cloth on the childs head to see what he will do and a slice of cheese. If you saw me toss a wash cloth over my kids eyes to see his reaction would that upset you? I bet it wouldnt. But since its cheese you draw the line, even though from the babies perspective the only difference is one is cold.
Americans Funniest Home Videos had many winners where the kids were being embarassed on TV, sometimes due to the parents deliberately pranking them.
LIFE IS FUCKING BORING for these people.I always wonder what compels people to participate in completely random and weird 'challenges' that usually just involve hurting/annoying themselves or others
Nah the best are the ones who think they become child psychology experts as soon as they got their SO pregnant because that's a hard thing to do.The best are the ones without children who seem to know more about our children than we do. No fun allowed is literally the theme of off-topic
do itI mean, it's a thing you could do, but I don't understand why you would.
That being said, I'm not sure how my daughter would react. She'd either cry, or laugh and eat the cheese. I'm vaguely curious, but not enough to actually try it to find out.
Well, they should, that shit is nasty
Common sense.
The show definitely had/has some fucked up videos and probably some goddamned awful parents "pranking their kids." I always hated the purposeful videos that just distressed someone especially a child. It's just not funny.
I question the ability of someone who uses reasoning like "well they cry at a lot of things so this one thing won't affect them and I need a laugh." That's a pretty awful perspective to have about your child. It doesn't mean the cheese incident is going to do them in but to me says something broader.
And you should probably know your child enough to know if throwing something at it will distress it or not. A baby will likely be distressed because it doesn't know what the fuck and it gets scared. I know my baby would cry if I threw cheese at its head. Or anything. Why does what it is matter?
Again I've said before if something accidental happened and it caused some distress but somehow looked funny, fine, laugh. That's human. If you're standing over your baby trying to eat as it plays a a fucking tomato falls out of your sandwich on its head. Yeah funny. Purposefully throwing something at its head though serves no purpose except experimenting with something where at best case the funny reaction is still very startled and at worst it gets an outright cry. So yeah tossing a washcloth at its head gets the same reaction of: wtf why?
Yeah and that was almost always fucking awful. Just because some other losers do it on tv doesn't make it good.
YesI guess I just don't see how these "Challenges" spread like wildfire. Is everyone just really struggling to get one more Instagram like?
I throw a wash cloth over my sons head damn near every time i give him a bath, he loves it. He grabs the wash cloth and tries to throw it back on my head and he laughs the entire time. Its fun. When i have an empty box i put it on him and see what he does, you know what, he loves empty boxes. I dont need to pull out the official "Fun Things To Do With Children" book to see what is officially sanctioned and proven to be fun. Here is a fun fact, whats fun for your kid may not be fun for my kid and vice versa. You know how i figured out that my son likes the wash cloths and boxes, i did it randomly, not knowing the outcome.
You know what my son doesnt like, playing in the snow. If you saw a parent taking their child out to play in the snow would it have garnered the same initial reaction you have towards the cheese? No it wouldnt. But for my son, at this point it would be sheer terror. Point being the parent knows best what is and isnt fun for their kids and they only figured that out by trying it first.
I throw a wash cloth over my sons head damn near every time i give him a bath, he loves it. He grabs the wash cloth and tries to throw it back on my head and he laughs the entire time. Its fun. When i have an empty box i put it on him and see what he does, you know what, he loves empty boxes. I dont need to pull out the official "Fun Things To Do With Children" book to see what is officially sanctioned and proven to be fun. Here is a fun fact, whats fun for your kid may not be fun for my kid and vice versa. You know how i figured out that my son likes the wash cloths and boxes, i did it randomly, not knowing the outcome.
You know what my son doesnt like, playing in the snow. If you saw a parent taking their child out to play in the snow would it have garnered the same initial reaction you have towards the cheese? No it wouldnt. But for my son, at this point it would be sheer terror. Point being the parent knows best what is and isnt fun for their kids and they only figured that out by trying it first.
Why is this so hard to grasp?Is it anymore of distress than some of the way people play with kids like helicopter, tossing them in the air, etc? What about hide and seek, is that distress?
This is not whatboutism, it's me highlighting theres many other ways parents interact with their kids that can be seen as distress.
There's a large philosophical difference in experimental play in order to figure out what's fun between you and your child and filming to see what may be funny to do to your child. That's the line that I draw.
Atleast in the US, I do think they wouldn't care. Corporal punishment of kids is largely legal and largely accepted. So bit cheese on the face probably wouldn't register as abuse of any kind, when spanking in example doesn't (that definitely should). And that's what I'm truly worried about with parenting in the US, not the cheese.I don't suggest a child protection officer would automatically remove a child from a parent who made that video. I do believe it would cause any honest and sensible person some legitimate concern about the child's welfare.
Half of this thread is saying it's a problem and the other half is going no biggie but this is an outrageous forum lmao.
LikesI always wonder what compels people to participate in completely random and weird 'challenges' that usually just involve hurting/annoying themselves or others