Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
the halloween candy thing that jimmy kimmel does is pretty cruel to some kids
I differentiate between pranking and abuse. It’s ok to prank, in my opinion, because it prepares the child for unexpected disappointments in life. However, when the prank is designed to strip away one’s value as a person, that’s not right in my books.
No. Don’t provoke your children. You’ll teach them to be mean.
Sure, prank your kids. Just don’t get all huffy when they prank you back.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
A week ago or so, there was a twitter video that was a takeoff on The Grinch that Stole Christmas. A guy all dressed in green like the Grinch showed up at the door and came into the house while two little kids were watching tv. They went absolutely nuts while the Grinch went to the tree and proceeded to stuff presents in the bag he had with him. It was funny... but it went way way too far. The little kids were totally terrified.
I went to look for it to post it here just to see if my opinion jived with what others thought but I couldn’t find it.
I’ve pulled so many pranks on my kids I can’t even remember them all.
They all grew up normal. And we all have well refined senses of humor.
Like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy?
Not to mention the Elf on the Shelf...
I made lunch every day for my youngest before we home schooled. I frequently included chocolate dipped fruit. One day I put a chocolate dipped habenero pepper along with two strawberries. I got a phone call asking me to come to the school office. When I arrived there were two police officers there with the principal. He wanted a good reason from me as to why I shouldn’t be arrested for child endangerment? The school did not find it funny in the least.
Not really a prank but.....
When I was driving long haul I got a call from my wife one morning. Seems one of the boys wouldn’t get out of bed for school. They were home in Virginia and I was in Nebraska.
I told the wife to put him on the phone.
I told him I needed him to go out on the back deck. When he got there I told him to turn right and go to the front corner of the house. When he got there I told him to go to the other front corner. Once there I told him to go back to the deck. Once he was on the deck I asked him if he was awake. He said yes.
I told him to give the phone to his Mama and get ready for school. To this day he remembers it.
I would never prank my kids. They might return the favor when they pick out my retirement home!
No.
It is not okay to prank your kids.
That is messed up and cruel.
Kids rely on patents for love, guidance, wisdom, and security. They need to know you are in their corner, that they can trust you, and that you have their back. Why would you break that trust over something so stupid for social media cred?
What the heck is wrong with people?
I’d slap these “parents” upside the head.
I had parental controls on my sons’ handheld games where I could restrict the time where they could be playing. The would ask me to give them some time to play.
I’d pull out my smart phone and open the parental control app. I’d ask my son, “What’s your name?
My older son would say, “Tommy”. I’d enter his name and give him time.
I kept that up for years. He never caught on that I didn’t need him to tell me his name.
My younger son never fell for that.
1) It depends on the parents and the kids.
2) The line between humor and cruelty can be thinner than you think. IF IN DOUBT, DON’T.
"You'll be fine, just keep crawling."
It's really funny when you take the glass away.
A prank like telling them some jolly fat man in a red suit will bring them presents on Christmas?
HAHAHA gullible kids :)
Oh Hell, I pranked my kids and still do. They are 27 and 25. They kind of expect it and they prank me back. It’s just fun.
My daughter saw me barking at our dog. The dog was barking back. She asked me if I know what the dog was saying. I said yes, I speak dog. Then she asked me “so what is the dog saying?”.
I said “RUFF RUFF”.
One of our family traditions is Easter egg hunts pretty much all day, over and over on Easter Day. We take turns. I tend to do the first one—the official one for all of the kids. Then they take turns hiding for each other.
A few years back, Easter was on April 1st. I enjoyed watching them run around the yard looking for eggs I didn’t hide. Then, we called them together and said, “April Fools!”
My now ten year-old looked at me and asked with all sincerity, “It isn’t Easter?”
I pranked my poor mother all the time, Snakes, itching powder on her blouse fake vomit on the kitchen table. My best was inserting cigarette loads in her smokes she would light one up and halfway through it would explode with a loud bang.My dad approved because he was a nonsmoker so I never really was punished badly. One prank on my daughter was when she was 7-8 on her birthday I told her we would have a delicious Irish cake and she was excited. We turned out the lights and I came in the room with a large potato and 8 candles burning on it, she looked at it and burst into tears. I felt very badly about that and she won’t let me forget it even after 30 years later.h
We all lie to our kids. Some lies – telling them their dog went to live on a farm.