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**What Happened:** The family gathered for dinner, and as Dad attempted to tell a joke about a chicken crossing the road, he stumbled over the punchline, accidentally making it sound like the chicken was on a secret mission. Just as the table erupted in laughter, Dad’s laughter echoed much louder in the background, bringing joy to the already amusing scene.
**Why It’s Funny:** The entire dinner had an almost sitcom-like quality as Dad’s contagious laughter turned a simple chicken joke into a comedy show. Imagine a scene where one person can’t stop giggling, and that giggle fuels the room’s hilarity, causing the kids to laugh just at the sight of Dad’s face turning beet red with laughter. It was a perfect storm where Dad’s laughter was the main act, overshadowing even the chicken’s questionable decision-making!
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This is probably 10 seconds after the dad said to not climb on there or you’ll hurt yourself. Decided to film while they find out instead of enforcing.
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I could warn my kids of clear cause and effect a billion times and they’d still have to just make the mistake themselves. Such is fatherhood. Let physics be the teacher at every opportunity possible. Intervene only at the last possible moment to prevent catastrophic injury.
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I see you have also have discovered my best parenting secret
J
Secret!? If there was a handbook I feel like this would be its own chapter. It’s how you get the “dad reflexes”. They appear as super quick reaction times, but it’s really a keen awareness of the situation and likely risks seconds to minutes in advance; waiting for and being prepared for that moment to intervene.
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Props to Dad for letting them learn by trial & error 😂
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Sometimes, you have to let them take the hit.
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The far-off “HAH!” is the actual soundtrack.from a father who anticipated this.
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Doesn’t matter, the younger one is too little to understand. Even the bigger kid shouldn’t be doing that. This is just a shit parent doing shit things.
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Nope, this is FAFO parenting. Teach them by telling them and let them make the decision, Let kids explore, let them learn on their own. Then be there to pick them up when they need it. If you bubble wrap these kids with every little thing, they lose their will to try and do new things and become afraid of everything. Kids need science, they need to be able to learn from mistakes otherwise you have kids who are believe they are always right regardless of decisions.
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there could have been irreversible damage to the kid.
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Trying to parent other peoples kids from a 10 second no context video. Peak Reddit.
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Fun fact, if you crack your neck a little too hard, you can dissect an artery and die. Most people who crack their neck dont die, even if they tweak their neck a little. Life is both extremely resilient and extremely fragile. The kid could be paralyzed, but more than likely he’s fine.
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Your why the playground equipment was removed
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Another fun fact, we all have irreversible damage from our parents. Its the trauma that points you in the right direction that makes all the difference.
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Dude kids are more at risk riding in a carseat in a car than this manuever. Kid learned he needs to lock in more before making that jump. Hopefully the laughing and not freaking out by the dad encouraged him to try again
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Your avatar checks out cause you are a clown
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You’ve never been a kid or seen kids have you? Children are very resilient. I fell a lot when I was a child yet it did nothing other than cuts, bruises, and a whole lotta lessons.
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The shit part was uploading it to the internet.
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Both, don’t know why this sub is acting like this is hilarious. It’s sad.
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Do you have kids? I raised 5, and this father laughed because he knows the kid is crying for being more startled than seriously hurt.
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Yea I think the people concerned here don’t even have kids. There are some parenting things you just don’t understand until you’re in it.
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Oh please. The only sad thing is you folks who don’t think a human can handle humility or humor. Can you imagine that in a support group? “My Dad uploaded a video of me bumping my bum and crying for 30 seconds.” Chill. Your whole idea of every-moment-of-every-life being private is silly.
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Man, you’re pathetic.
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Kids should not grow up wrapped up in bubble wrap. Kids need to get hurt sometimes in their life to learn how to handle it. No you shouldn’t be negligent and let your kid fall and smash their teeth out, but a scraped knee, a bumped behind, a hurt elbow, all invaluable teaching moments. This little bump will not be remembered, but it will be learned from.
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Sure, maybe not the best parenting, but also hilarious. Kids are way more resilient than we give them credit for. I’d definitely tell them not to do that, maybe even get up and physically take them down, but no harm was done here.
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You are sad.
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I love yall pathetic losers so much, acting like you know shit, just to motivate your own minuscule ego, by telling others what is good or bad, keep going, for some reason it makes me happy when I see it. Also yes it is dangerous for kids to do that but, that is only if things go very wrong, but this can be prevented by simply not allowing dangerous objects around children such as sharp objects, but children are way more resistent to fall damage than us adults. And another defense to the parent ia that children have a lot of energy so the only way to completly keep them safe is by keeping them on a leash inside the house which most peolple dont do for obvious reasons
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I mean it’s shit parenting either way. Letting such small kids do that, laughing (and therefore encouraging) that type of behavior and then worst of all, posting it on the internet. I’m a dad myself and it’s just pretty much all bullshit what you said lol
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Everyone has different tolerances. You are not right, just a different perspective. Personally I can’t imagine being such a helicopter parent for stuff like this.
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Helicopter parenting is something completely different lol. It’s just standard American bullshit parenting and then people wonder why your typical American kid is awful lol
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You’re both confidently wrong and dumb at the same time
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What a brilliant argument buddy lol
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No better than yours. oH aMerIcA bAd
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GOD, WHAT A TOOL!
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My kids are awesome, well-adjusted (despite dealing with a predator), well-behaved, and my older one a straight A student (younger one doesn’t have letter grades yet).
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Oof feel bad for your children, just cause you are a parent doesnt mean you are a good person, an obvious thing. Like I am not saying your children will turn out bad, in fact stricter parenting feels like it has a higher chance of your children being succesful, but it is just that, a chance, whenever I see strict parents, it just looks so needlesly painful for the children, like unlike in a freer family when the dad comes by you can feel the love of the children for him, while with strict parenting the children will hide at the sound of their dad, which feels sad, but idk, am just an idiot on the internet. Sorry for the offense for some reason I became like this recently.
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If you think it’s “strict parenting” if you guide them not to jump from a table, or at the very least you don’t post that shit online, oh boy. You’re clearly working out some stuff so I get it, but you know, there’s a wide spectrum of parenting between the overly permissive bullshit and the authoritarian bullshit.
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I can feel your authoritarian bullshit thru the words, you dont have to preach it. Nice steal of an idea from the other relply too, I ll do it too. If you think laughing from your child falling on his ass is bad parenting and if you think filming it and posting it is bad parenting, you should remind yourself of what you said “parenting is a wide spectrum”, they probably found this geniunly funny and wanted to share it, not everything is a dystopian landscape where parents use their children as a content farm.
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What “steal of another idea”, what are you even talking about. You seem a bit unhinged. Yeah, it’s a wide spectrum and the clip we saw here has three signs of shitty parenting. Maybe they’re not shit parents on average, who the hell knows based on a small clip, but posting videos of your kids online is just a bad idea. You might disagree, cool.
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Have a lovely day sir, and lets just hope you aint what I think you are, which seems to be the case from what you wrote here, for the sake of the people around you, pride can be pretty awfull
J
Sure, buddy!
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True. Have a toddler that climbs. I do pull them off of things, they have a fit.. the more I tell them not to do, they do.. so sometimes I let them discover. But I’m there incase they get hurt.. used to literally Full speed, Walk Off The Bed. With arms in the air when they were younger. because they knew I’d catch them.. was hilarious.. but yeah. Especially that young, depending what they’re jumping on. Could’ve broken their neck of they jumped, landed the wrong way. People say kids are resilient, they’re actually Really fragile. And don’t show it very much.. it’s dumb parents thinking ‘Theyll be fine’. While not wanting to do the work. Yeah, You’re tired, Every Single Parent that ever has been, Has been Tired. That’s no excuse for you to not be there. There’s videos of ‘Dad reflexes’. out there.. this is the opposite, really shows he really doesn’t care.. you let your kid do dangerous things ? You better be Right there so you can grab them.. also, it’s r/funny. Most of the people on here are those that don’t want you to say something dumb someone did isn’t a good idea, it ruins the fun ..
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I would assume helicopter parenting would be your style but that would be assuming and you know what they say
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Yes, it’s not best parenting, the potential for a catastrophic injury is right there in front of us to see. Sure the likelihood it’d happen seems low, but I’ve seen plenty of people mess up their bodies in a lot of ways from the equivalent height, or less for an adult. There are “safer” situations to let a kid “fuck around and find out” for a parent to choose to let them “find out”. If it happens when you’re not there or are momentarily distracted, then so be it, people are fucking stupid and kids are even stupider because they don’t understand pain, consequences… oftentimes cause and effect. As for uploading it to the internet for laughs, it’s not anything new, this is the stuff that you’d see on “ funniest home videos” all the time.
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Thank you for standing up for the little guy. I’m a little person and my parents used to make me get tossed around for money. They told me it would feel like flying, but I was so humiliated.
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HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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Damn you got issues
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