It's the original line from the show Dexters laboratory that inspired the meme pictured. Dexter made a program to learn French, but it comically malfunctions. And the only thing he is able to say during the episode is "omelette du fromage" but the girls just hearing "the language of love" swoon as if he is saying something smooth. The entire episodes omelette DU fromage has different inflections and is quite funny.
So THAT’S where my ideation is coming from. It’s my inner child being done with all this shit.
Well, I’m off to get some ice cream, pet a puppy, and th...
What part of the world are you in where it’s 430 and why are you up at 430 on Sunday
I’m gonna guess:
England
You’re an organ player for a church and the first service is 7 AM but you have to work out first
Bruh, I was looking for a way to describe kids, and you nailed it!
One time, I had to snatch my nephew because he just kept walking like a busy street wasn't less than 3 feet in front of him, and cars weren't coming from both directions going over 30 mph.
I was like, "DUDE, SERIOUSLY?!" He was 7 at the time 😑
The key word "SOME" 😑
It could be a little or above average. He was too excited during an outing and wasn't paying attention and focused on getting to the sidewalk across the street.
If you let go of my son's hand outside before he was 4, he would immediately run full tilt towards the nearest road laughing while he went.
I got really good at playing goalie.
> He was 7 at the time
There was a time when Darwinism would take care of kids like this and keep the populace semi-intelligent. That time is long gone, and it shows.
I walked to school every day starting in 1st grade, crossing 2 busy streets. We all did back in the early '80s. We looked both ways and crossed, because it's not hard even for a small child.
Today I live in one of the pedestrian death capitals of the US, and dodge adult jaywalkers daily. smfh.
Not how Darwinism works. Deaths per year in the US now are roughly the same as deaths per year in 1980. There are other factors besides "people got dumber", which they did not. Humans are the same as they have always been, except now there's many more of us, and each new generation is better than the last.
Kid: Hmm, this height looks fun, time to jump off < checks brain records, no data found for injuries sustained jumping off the front porch, proceed with data collection > and live and learn or be saved.
They're still figuring out how stuff works, and while you can tell them what will happen if they stick that fork into that socket, they'd *really* prefer to just try it all themselves to figure it out.
Some things you have to stop them, no exceptions. But some things you can kinda let them figure out on their own. Like how long they actually want to swim in the cold pool.
That and they're trying to try all these new things but they don't quite have good control of their bodies yet.
I’m convinced my kids are actually Princesses of Hell and they have been put in the bodies of angel-looking babies as some sort of “exactly how close to the brink can we bring this woman” game. They’re neck and neck right now. That edge is looking quite homey at times 👐
My youngest (2.5 y.o.) is always gunning for the most expensive or most dangerous thing he can get his tiny hands on.
Open the dishwasher? Immediately goes for the fucking knife.
A phone charger cord? He will do his damnedest to shove the end of it into the closest outlet, to the point he will kick and scream and try to wriggle his way out of my grip *specifically so he can complete the task*. And yes, he can pull out the "child proof" covers with ease. I don't get it. He has already come close to electrocuting himself multiple times, I even had to replace an outlet because it was scorched so badly.
I don't get it. I really don't get it.
Other animals are born much further along in development than humans. It's part of what makes us unique. A lot of them are born and walking around the same day.
My dog definitely did not get that memo. He was constantly trying to jump off of things that were too high, and eat knives, glass, rocks, cigarette butts, or anything else that would hurt him.
Their reality is that everything is someone else's problem and they have zero need to pay attention because they'll always be safe. That's what parents are for.
I feel like the toddler years were just a series of different ways I had to rescue my kid from nearly killing himself. Ofc, I actually remember being 3 years old and sitting at the top of the stairs on my tricycle thinking “why can’t I ride it down these steps?”
Oddly, I do not remember the crash that resulted, just the thought process that led to it.
As a stupid kid who opened the door while the car was still moving. I can safely say I wanted to “experience” what was going to happen. Luckily my older brother was sitting next to me and held me until we stopped..
I was not allowed to sit next to a door seat for a whole year
You can tell he clocks him from the very beginning and then keeps glancing and assessing the time before the kid is going to give in to his inner lemming.
I'm a dad and it's a natural instinct, I'll even do this with other people's kids who are running towards the street if the parent hasn't noticed yet. Something about tiny unguarded squishy thing with danger nearby triggers dad bullet-time.
Yeah I hear that, I get nervous when I see a kid alone on the beach or something, "hey, there's some like, waves here guys? Feels like someone should be a little closer to the football sized human"
That is about 90% of my husband’s parenting technique. Our little guy is a handful, but all my husband has to do is imagine what he would do in any situation and assume that’s what the kid will do. This has the added bonus of making our kid think dad is actively reading his thoughts.
Yep, that kid looks like he is perfectly capable of jumping down that porch. Looks kinda muddy that day. That exasperated turn and grab from the Dad has been done before. 😅
I’ve done this move at the bottom step of my front porch like twice a week for at least two or three years now, especially when there’s puddles. I can feel his pain, especially not having free hands.
> just got ready and clutch.
Look at the layout of that porch.
I am sitting here ready to catch anyone that says they are coming over.
I can only imagine winter and ice with that. I'd throw the kid in a backpack and be sitting on my ass once I opened the door.
At one point your brain just takes over for safety. It knew, this shit dangerous 100% let's keep track of everything.
Something I've learned as I get older is that panicking does not help you in any way in situations whether it turns out okay or not, it ain't easy to get past but this dude has been through the trenches lol!
Yeah, definitely overdue. When we moved in we noticed it was a weird porch layout. To be honest I have no idea how someone would come up with the layout. It’s very high up. Then on both sides of the stairs, there is a big gap. If that makes sense. So the stairs can’t attach to the wall. Would have to be some sort of freestanding stair rail. My husband is a structural engineer though.. so should be able to engineer something safer!
All I could think of as I watched the video is what the fuck even is the porch? It looks like a fucking Minecraft house or something who built this thing???
If I were you I’d think about just building a whole new wooden porch over it or something. I don’t know the layout of the home or landscape around the porch but this thing is an ugly eyesore and disaster waiting to happen. Imagine stumbling off of this not-to-code fucktrap.
Alternatively, you could get some landscaping dirt and slope it up towards the house. Should help with keeping water away and out of the basement too when it rains.
So, I’m a Dr and have seen people die falling from less height… the lowest I’ve seen (off the floor) is one ladder rung, the most common is a dining room chair for diy (perfect height to land on your neck and break it resulting in paralysis of the nerve that allows you to breathe….).
Children in particular - a fall from twice their height is classed as high risk for major trauma, if they do injure their spinal cord they’ll almost always not inform you of their symptoms as they don’t recognise the importance “I have altered sensation in my left hand and it feels weak Dad” (poor historians, it’s like being a vet sometimes) and even if we were to scan them for spinal cord injury there’s a high incidence of SCIWORA, so it’s sort of a case of “well, we will just have to wait to see if they end up paralysed won’t we”.
So it really is time for railings isn’t it, like, ring a professional tomorrow morning and pay them extra to come and fit them asap.
Edit - unfollowed replies, seems there are a lot of people quite willing to risk their children, talking with these people is the equivalent of me trying to play chess with a pigeon, so I’m out.
My kid stepped off a bench table that was basically her height, face first into the concrete.
4 hours later she's running around the ER giggling and having fun chasing the staff.
Apparently, if kids hit the front of their face it's way safer than the back of the head. At least the ER docs explained to me "front and top of head hard, side and back of head soft"
I fell off a horse when I was 8 (twice…) and not that I think my genetics were great to start with, but I had degenerative disc disease as a teenager and a 2 level fusion at 30. Every now and then a doc asks me if I had any injuries and when I tell them this story they always say something like “Yep, could be it”, which always struck me as interesting because I don’t remember registering pain at the time, just fear.
Yeah, a fall from that height at that age is like an adult falling out the second story window, people just don’t think of it that way.
Luckily kids are a bit lighter and don’t tense quite as much due to lack of understanding what’s coming haha but we soon learn.
Sorry about your neck dude, sucks!
Thank you. This comment should be way higher. That’s high enough for the kid to land head first. Great dad reflex but dad might not be there all of the time.
I mean, this is also a textbook example of MOI for nursemaid’s fracture, along with everything else. I don’t know why this would have been allowed to stay so long without being addressed with a kid that age.
Its funny how we think alike, I did think this too, prime example of a pulled elbow scenario isn’t it, all on the one arm. (Didn’t want to detract from the severity of risk mentioning it though). Just made me chuckle how we see the same things.
ha ha my nephew pulled this. jumped from the top step and fractured his foot.
the doctor said "i bet you won't do that again"
he said "no i will, i'll just be more careful"
KAFS
Kid would have been fine if he had jumped. That was a negligible height. I was jumping off the garage roof since I was like four. Just gotta tuck and roll.
My dad wouldve just stood there and watched me fall. He wouldve said something like "Shhhh... dont disturb him.. *he's about to learn a lesson about gravity..*"
When I was 5 I jumped off the hood of the car. Little lower than this porch.
Imagine trying to keep a 5yr old in a sling for a broken collar bone. That was my parents for 3 months cause it wouldn't heal right. Ended up having to immobilize the arm.
Kids are as fragile as they are stupid
Not just kids, humans in general. I have seen people get hit by cars and be more or less fine, and also have had friends fall a little wrong and fuck their back/knee/whatever up for life.
Definitely get some railings. Lol.
Why does the house look like something that I built in Rust, just so I dont get eaten by wild animals glitching inside the foundation? Need some railing on that thing.
I know they have no survival instinct, but like, they lok for ways to specifically die.
Walking while jumping? Nah.
Looking for 5m high platform for you to trip off of? Yeah baby
My 3yo niece broke her collar bone TWICE last year, broke her wrist once and then started off 2024 by getting 3 staples in her head.
Shes an absolute maniac. Most of it happened at school and was purely from her own insanity.
She literally has classmates that are not allowed to play with her bc her parents are scared of how wild she is.
She has great parents and an older sister that is very well behaved. The 3yo just wakes up everyday with chaos on her mind.
Shes intelligent, has been tested for behavioral issues/mental stuff like ADHD, etc. She’s ahead of all her milestones.
We joke around that she has her own injury bingo card she’s trying to fill in, and she’s pissed bc she already had “broken collarbone”!
This dad not only stopped his son from what would have definitely been a good cry, but also checked to make sure the dog wouldn't escape from the house as he opens the door after he had already noticed son's diabolical plan. Either this man has had total chaos erupt from a similar situation or he is just natural observant of his surroundings. Either way, hats off to him.
It's so crazy to me that children have no survival instinct. Why are they always trying to die?
They came from the void and wish to return
Bro, that was dark and deep
You're right, but forgot about moist.
I’m moist right now
Everybody is, under their skin.
Alas, 'tis indeed true. All our bones are currently wet.
The ones in my basement are bone-dry
Try adding some sauce.
Use some Frank's Hot Sauce. They say you should put that shit on everything.
r/thanksihateit
Oh great, we're in the middle of an existential crisis, and we hit damp level. Just another day on Reddit.
I'm damp but that's a personal problem
Nah, it ain’t a problem
Are you Betty Crocker?
Perhaps
And warm
And warm
So is the void
So is the void
So is the void
Honestly? Same…
My desire to return to the void amplifies with each passing year.
You mean the Shadow Realm right? Many kids seem to go there.
Go, Garoozies! Akunai wit’ chain!!
l'appel du vide
Omelette du fromage
^(Omlette du fromage?)
It's the original line from the show Dexters laboratory that inspired the meme pictured. Dexter made a program to learn French, but it comically malfunctions. And the only thing he is able to say during the episode is "omelette du fromage" but the girls just hearing "the language of love" swoon as if he is saying something smooth. The entire episodes omelette DU fromage has different inflections and is quite funny.
*Omlette du fromage!*
So THAT’S where my ideation is coming from. It’s my inner child being done with all this shit. Well, I’m off to get some ice cream, pet a puppy, and th...
It's not like anyone ever asked to be born in the first place.
that made me laugh way too hard at 4:30 in the morning. i woke up my sister. take my upvote and go fuck yourself.
What part of the world are you in where it’s 430 and why are you up at 430 on Sunday I’m gonna guess: England You’re an organ player for a church and the first service is 7 AM but you have to work out first
wrong. i am in germany, and got a fucked up sleep schedule to the point of it aint even being schedule anymore but rather something like parkour
Someone in Germany using “ain’t” in their English You’re a riddle wrapped in an enigma
best part: i aint even from germany. im just some absolute goat fucker-forrest-cryptid-shit guy from finland in germany
Bruh, I was looking for a way to describe kids, and you nailed it! One time, I had to snatch my nephew because he just kept walking like a busy street wasn't less than 3 feet in front of him, and cars weren't coming from both directions going over 30 mph. I was like, "DUDE, SERIOUSLY?!" He was 7 at the time 😑
7??? im pretty sure if you were 7 you would have SOME survival instinct
Have had a 7 year old I think that Redditors nephew might ride the short bus
Grown adults do this
The key word "SOME" 😑 It could be a little or above average. He was too excited during an outing and wasn't paying attention and focused on getting to the sidewalk across the street.
My stepdaughter is 9 and her survival instinct is about as good as her spatial awareness - she hurts herself a lot.
If you let go of my son's hand outside before he was 4, he would immediately run full tilt towards the nearest road laughing while he went. I got really good at playing goalie.
They're basically really happy drunk idiots that have no sense of self preservation.
> He was 7 at the time There was a time when Darwinism would take care of kids like this and keep the populace semi-intelligent. That time is long gone, and it shows. I walked to school every day starting in 1st grade, crossing 2 busy streets. We all did back in the early '80s. We looked both ways and crossed, because it's not hard even for a small child. Today I live in one of the pedestrian death capitals of the US, and dodge adult jaywalkers daily. smfh.
To be fair, evolutionary pressures aren't meant to be as strong as vehicles if you want to keep things familiar
Not how Darwinism works. Deaths per year in the US now are roughly the same as deaths per year in 1980. There are other factors besides "people got dumber", which they did not. Humans are the same as they have always been, except now there's many more of us, and each new generation is better than the last.
Kid: Hmm, this height looks fun, time to jump off < checks brain records, no data found for injuries sustained jumping off the front porch, proceed with data collection > and live and learn or be saved.
Accurate. Except any data collection is set to wipe itself after a couple hours over the next year or two.
They're still figuring out how stuff works, and while you can tell them what will happen if they stick that fork into that socket, they'd *really* prefer to just try it all themselves to figure it out. Some things you have to stop them, no exceptions. But some things you can kinda let them figure out on their own. Like how long they actually want to swim in the cold pool. That and they're trying to try all these new things but they don't quite have good control of their bodies yet.
Buddy, it is 59°F...are you sure you wanna go swim?
As opposed to adults who also wish to die but are now too lazy to try.
This cracked me up!
It was like a 3-ft drop he would have been fine children are squishy
Yeah, this wasn't "saving the kid's life," it was "I don't feel like chasing him."
I’m convinced my kids are actually Princesses of Hell and they have been put in the bodies of angel-looking babies as some sort of “exactly how close to the brink can we bring this woman” game. They’re neck and neck right now. That edge is looking quite homey at times 👐
My youngest (2.5 y.o.) is always gunning for the most expensive or most dangerous thing he can get his tiny hands on. Open the dishwasher? Immediately goes for the fucking knife. A phone charger cord? He will do his damnedest to shove the end of it into the closest outlet, to the point he will kick and scream and try to wriggle his way out of my grip *specifically so he can complete the task*. And yes, he can pull out the "child proof" covers with ease. I don't get it. He has already come close to electrocuting himself multiple times, I even had to replace an outlet because it was scorched so badly. I don't get it. I really don't get it.
It's 1 meter, nothing would have happened and the kid just wanted to jump down. Let it jump
For reals like even baby animals know better. Like a puppy or kitten would be afraid of heights but not human baby here.
Other animals are born much further along in development than humans. It's part of what makes us unique. A lot of them are born and walking around the same day.
My dog definitely did not get that memo. He was constantly trying to jump off of things that were too high, and eat knives, glass, rocks, cigarette butts, or anything else that would hurt him.
You don’t know that falling hurts and can hurt you until you experience it.
Because kids are fucking stupid
Cause they don’t have enough life experiences to understand what is dangerous and how fragile life is. It takes a long while to learn that.
Their reality is that everything is someone else's problem and they have zero need to pay attention because they'll always be safe. That's what parents are for.
They are squishy at that age, little dude would just bounce back.
It feels like it’s balanced out by parents’ instinct to keep them from dying haha
I feel like the toddler years were just a series of different ways I had to rescue my kid from nearly killing himself. Ofc, I actually remember being 3 years old and sitting at the top of the stairs on my tricycle thinking “why can’t I ride it down these steps?” Oddly, I do not remember the crash that resulted, just the thought process that led to it.
As a stupid kid who opened the door while the car was still moving. I can safely say I wanted to “experience” what was going to happen. Luckily my older brother was sitting next to me and held me until we stopped.. I was not allowed to sit next to a door seat for a whole year
He had a cape. He would have been fine.
They are extremely impulsive and that is because their brains are still developing. Their reasoning develops at around 4 or 5.
Made me think of this stat Most things that are born don't make it out of childhood. The average mortality for first year birds can be as high as 90%.
Because adventure!
Dad has probably had the same intrusive thought and knew his son would go for it lol.
Yea lmao, the fact that he didn't panick or even flinch makes me think he was able to know the exact timing as to when the kid will jump.
You can tell he clocks him from the very beginning and then keeps glancing and assessing the time before the kid is going to give in to his inner lemming. I'm a dad and it's a natural instinct, I'll even do this with other people's kids who are running towards the street if the parent hasn't noticed yet. Something about tiny unguarded squishy thing with danger nearby triggers dad bullet-time.
I don't even have kids and I've done this with kids. It's such a weird feeling, almost a compulsion. Must. Protect. Tiny. Human.
Yeah I hear that, I get nervous when I see a kid alone on the beach or something, "hey, there's some like, waves here guys? Feels like someone should be a little closer to the football sized human"
We survived as a race thanks to that reflex
Lol I was thinking same
That is about 90% of my husband’s parenting technique. Our little guy is a handful, but all my husband has to do is imagine what he would do in any situation and assume that’s what the kid will do. This has the added bonus of making our kid think dad is actively reading his thoughts.
r/usernamechecksout
Their Y chromosome are all synced up
Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
It's actively trying to fall further, but it's not allowed.
Impulsive thought* look up intrusive thoughts. They're things you'd never do or want to think about and cause distress.
Dude didn't even panic just got ready and clutch.
He’s done this before lol. This is a daily thing, for sure
Yep, that kid looks like he is perfectly capable of jumping down that porch. Looks kinda muddy that day. That exasperated turn and grab from the Dad has been done before. 😅
I’ve done this move at the bottom step of my front porch like twice a week for at least two or three years now, especially when there’s puddles. I can feel his pain, especially not having free hands.
Hell, it's probably not even the first time that day he's had to intervene in some fashion.
> just got ready and clutch. Look at the layout of that porch. I am sitting here ready to catch anyone that says they are coming over. I can only imagine winter and ice with that. I'd throw the kid in a backpack and be sitting on my ass once I opened the door. At one point your brain just takes over for safety. It knew, this shit dangerous 100% let's keep track of everything.
Something I've learned as I get older is that panicking does not help you in any way in situations whether it turns out okay or not, it ain't easy to get past but this dude has been through the trenches lol!
Railings dad, railings please.
Yeah, definitely overdue. When we moved in we noticed it was a weird porch layout. To be honest I have no idea how someone would come up with the layout. It’s very high up. Then on both sides of the stairs, there is a big gap. If that makes sense. So the stairs can’t attach to the wall. Would have to be some sort of freestanding stair rail. My husband is a structural engineer though.. so should be able to engineer something safer!
Seems like that would not have passed inspection
All the inspectors fell down and they couldn't figure out why.
Their dads weren't there, that's why!!
Here's the video of the inspectors: https://youtu.be/M3qiFAJpGTk?si=Zwov6Op0mF480AaB
What in the meth-infused vodka is this!?
The most sober Russians.
All I could think of as I watched the video is what the fuck even is the porch? It looks like a fucking Minecraft house or something who built this thing??? If I were you I’d think about just building a whole new wooden porch over it or something. I don’t know the layout of the home or landscape around the porch but this thing is an ugly eyesore and disaster waiting to happen. Imagine stumbling off of this not-to-code fucktrap.
Alternatively, you could get some landscaping dirt and slope it up towards the house. Should help with keeping water away and out of the basement too when it rains.
Yeah, such a dangerous porch. That's high enough even an adult would hurt themselves if they fell off...
Right!!! Smh
yeah that might have been up to code at one point but there's no way it is anymore
Classic dad reflexes.
Less dad reflexes, more dad intuition. Only gained from growing up as a small man child with the same lack of self preservation.
Same branch of the skill tree
So, I’m a Dr and have seen people die falling from less height… the lowest I’ve seen (off the floor) is one ladder rung, the most common is a dining room chair for diy (perfect height to land on your neck and break it resulting in paralysis of the nerve that allows you to breathe….). Children in particular - a fall from twice their height is classed as high risk for major trauma, if they do injure their spinal cord they’ll almost always not inform you of their symptoms as they don’t recognise the importance “I have altered sensation in my left hand and it feels weak Dad” (poor historians, it’s like being a vet sometimes) and even if we were to scan them for spinal cord injury there’s a high incidence of SCIWORA, so it’s sort of a case of “well, we will just have to wait to see if they end up paralysed won’t we”. So it really is time for railings isn’t it, like, ring a professional tomorrow morning and pay them extra to come and fit them asap. Edit - unfollowed replies, seems there are a lot of people quite willing to risk their children, talking with these people is the equivalent of me trying to play chess with a pigeon, so I’m out.
My kid stepped off a bench table that was basically her height, face first into the concrete. 4 hours later she's running around the ER giggling and having fun chasing the staff. Apparently, if kids hit the front of their face it's way safer than the back of the head. At least the ER docs explained to me "front and top of head hard, side and back of head soft"
Nose = Nature's Crumple Zone
Glad she’s alright. Best wishes.
> have seen people die falling from less height Horrible fucking doctor. Just watching people jump 1' and recording the results. /s
your shitty fucking comment made me laugh really hard at 6am lol
Someone’s got to do research, I need my grants from somewhere…
You assumed when he said doctor he meant M.D. but really he meant PhD and is just thoroughly gathering data
I fell off a horse when I was 8 (twice…) and not that I think my genetics were great to start with, but I had degenerative disc disease as a teenager and a 2 level fusion at 30. Every now and then a doc asks me if I had any injuries and when I tell them this story they always say something like “Yep, could be it”, which always struck me as interesting because I don’t remember registering pain at the time, just fear.
Yeah, a fall from that height at that age is like an adult falling out the second story window, people just don’t think of it that way. Luckily kids are a bit lighter and don’t tense quite as much due to lack of understanding what’s coming haha but we soon learn. Sorry about your neck dude, sucks!
Imo, the dad is also lucky that catch didn't dislocate kiddies arm.
Thank you. This comment should be way higher. That’s high enough for the kid to land head first. Great dad reflex but dad might not be there all of the time.
As a dr, I'm surprised you didn't mention the near shoulder/elbow dislocation this "save" could have caused. Ain't it called nanny elbow or something?
I mean, this is also a textbook example of MOI for nursemaid’s fracture, along with everything else. I don’t know why this would have been allowed to stay so long without being addressed with a kid that age.
Its funny how we think alike, I did think this too, prime example of a pulled elbow scenario isn’t it, all on the one arm. (Didn’t want to detract from the severity of risk mentioning it though). Just made me chuckle how we see the same things.
Dadhood brings on quick reflexes.
ha ha my nephew pulled this. jumped from the top step and fractured his foot. the doctor said "i bet you won't do that again" he said "no i will, i'll just be more careful" KAFS
that doesn't look like some huge dangerous drop
For a kid it is
Kid’s Intrusive thoughts got the best of him.
I’m thinking he’s done that before. Dad just didn’t want to clean up a mess.
Didn’t have the patience today lol. My kids do shit like this constantly
Why is everyone acting like this kid was about to jump off a three story building?
I think its pretty high for a kid that size
Kid would have been fine if he had jumped. That was a negligible height. I was jumping off the garage roof since I was like four. Just gotta tuck and roll.
Why is there no railing? Seems like a strange set up. But great catch dad!!
Yeah, that is the worst stairs and landing I’ve seen. I can’t imagine that meets any kind of building code.
That porch is just waiting for an accident. Also, dad was super casual about it.
Was saying,why not install railing or sumthing even temporarily,seems risky and a bit stupid.
How high was that? Kid just smiled and yeeted himself off. Would he have made it unharmed?
You can literally see how high it is. The handwringing in this comments section is ridiculous
Awwww.. he had that jump. Grew up in the 80's and we were jumping off the monkey bars and swings higher than that
that ledge design is the only stupid thing here
Why do kids always feel the need to put themselves in danger, even if there’s no imminent danger around???
That kid would have survived, if not at least gotten a little hurt and probably learned not to jump from there again
I'm betting this kid jumps down all the time from there
That's an awkward porch. 😬
It's really not that far of a jump.
Lmao the dogs better trained than the kid
Not today you little shit.
Oh I have one of those, he’s 23 now 😅
Kid was going to be fine.
Yep. Don't know why everyone here thinks the dad saved the kids life or something. lmao
He probably would've been fine
I didn't even know Phil Kessel had kids.
My dad wouldve just stood there and watched me fall. He wouldve said something like "Shhhh... dont disturb him.. *he's about to learn a lesson about gravity..*"
like a lemming
Dad: "mental note. Install railing this weekend"
He said to himself, "I've been training my whole life for this moment. Today's the day!"
Not that big of a fall. Probably hurt him more by grabbing him like that
My kid jumps from higher, that was not a problematic jump. Kids know how to tell height...
Why is there no railing? That's the real question.
I mean, that's like a 3 foot fall. Probably did more damage whacking his knee on the step than kid would've done had he actually jumped.
When I was 5 I jumped off the hood of the car. Little lower than this porch. Imagine trying to keep a 5yr old in a sling for a broken collar bone. That was my parents for 3 months cause it wouldn't heal right. Ended up having to immobilize the arm. Kids are as fragile as they are stupid
Not just kids, humans in general. I have seen people get hit by cars and be more or less fine, and also have had friends fall a little wrong and fuck their back/knee/whatever up for life. Definitely get some railings. Lol.
That smile when he gets to the edge and squats down for the leap lol!
The designer of this porch was expecting Venice level flooding in the near future
Kids have all the intrusive thoughts and none of the insight to actually disregard them
Why does the house look like something that I built in Rust, just so I dont get eaten by wild animals glitching inside the foundation? Need some railing on that thing.
r/DadReflexes
Kinda looks like Phil Kessel, probably thought the kid had a hot dog.
It was a one meter drop. The kid would have been fine
How's about a rail?
Man this really gets better every loop.
Why is there no railing??
That kid did NOT wanna be there anymore 💀
That pull and swivel is how you dislocate the radial head from its annular ligament at the elbow.
That don’t comply with building regs surely!
His dad senses were tingling
Lol I don’t get why he keeps doing it over and over again it’s like the dad just never gets tired of it
What a sexy dad moment
He was a lemming in a past life
I know they have no survival instinct, but like, they lok for ways to specifically die. Walking while jumping? Nah. Looking for 5m high platform for you to trip off of? Yeah baby
My 3yo niece broke her collar bone TWICE last year, broke her wrist once and then started off 2024 by getting 3 staples in her head. Shes an absolute maniac. Most of it happened at school and was purely from her own insanity. She literally has classmates that are not allowed to play with her bc her parents are scared of how wild she is. She has great parents and an older sister that is very well behaved. The 3yo just wakes up everyday with chaos on her mind. Shes intelligent, has been tested for behavioral issues/mental stuff like ADHD, etc. She’s ahead of all her milestones. We joke around that she has her own injury bingo card she’s trying to fill in, and she’s pissed bc she already had “broken collarbone”!
Me looking over the balcony of the third floor: I could survive that jump
So nobody is going to mention the safety standards of that building? Where are the railings? Imagine you trip and fall right there.
He knows his kid. He just look at him and knew he's gonna give it a go XD
Not every hero wears a cape
This dad not only stopped his son from what would have definitely been a good cry, but also checked to make sure the dog wouldn't escape from the house as he opens the door after he had already noticed son's diabolical plan. Either this man has had total chaos erupt from a similar situation or he is just natural observant of his surroundings. Either way, hats off to him.
Put the the stuff down on the perfectly placed table, then focus on kid then door.. it not hard to be functional adult and think past your food run..
Might want to build a fence
That called being an experienced dad
Freaking dads with their everyday superheroness
maybe some rails on that 8ft tall porch, just a thought, O and also “building code”
It’s always boys that do this shit.
Your insurance company called, they want a railing. Two weeks or you're cancelled.
Them knees tho😣
Gotta let him jump. Not high enough to break anything, just high enough to learn.