Posted on 04/29/2017 6:59:00 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
WASHINGTON — The Frederick County parents under fire for pulling pranks on their kids in a series of popular YouTube videos have issued a video apology, and the family is in counseling.
Mike and Heather Martin of Ijamsville, Maryland, said many of the pranks posted on their YouTube channel, including their kids’ tearful reactions, were staged.
All of the videos have been removed from their DaddyOFive channel except one in which they apologize.
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idiots
Their kids are their most important “things” in the world to them. My house, my car, my kids, good things to own./s
They just pranked the rest of us with this apology! HaHa!
Yes, they did.
Fake Apology.
Also, I saw two of their videos and they are disgusting.
Apologizing all the way to the bank.
The most important thing in her life appears to be food.
I read the article. But what did they do? It didn’t say.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
“The Family Fang”
Why apologize? Why is the media so upset with these parents? They have never gone after Jimmy Kimmel, who challenges parents to prank their kids on a regular basis and broadcasts their videos on live TV!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOwEwJD_p2w
I notice she bleached and curled her hair after they got viral media attention. Idiots.
I only watched about two minutes of one. The mom poured "magic disappearing ink" on the carpet of her little boy's room, then screamed at him like a prison guard, with the father joining in the accusatory screaming, while the child sobbed anxiously, insisting he hadn't done it. The child was terrorized, begging them to believe him. That was enough for me.
Emotional abuse is never just a prank. Clearly they don't understand their responsibilities to protect, encourage, teach, inspire, strengthen and calmly discipline their children, not break them. And never lie to them and trick them, or they will not be able to trust any intimate partner or spouse later on. And most children repeat what they have experienced, sometimes turning up the heat onto the next victim.
A home for small children should not be like Parris Island.
Okay, thanks for answering that question. I wondered, as well.
They sound really horrible.
Agree. That was the first thing I thought of.
I don’t watch a lot of TV, but I saw Kimmel one night where the parents told the kids they’d eaten all of their Halloween candy. Some of the parents were incredibly cruel and some of the kids were devastated. Even if the kids don’t care about the candy and don’t cry about it, this is terrible parenting. It teaches the kids that they cannot trust their parents. I suppose that with parents like that, maybe that’s a good lesson to learn.
Kimmel ought to be charged with child cruelty along with the parents who responded to his request.
I found the whole thing disgusting. I do not watch Kimmel because of that.
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