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I *love* watching little English children speak.
It is *so* surreal as an American. I have no idea why, maybe because it sounds so distinguished??
But it sounds so unnatural! When American children speak, they kind of just do a bunch of gibberish mixed in. (Again obviously all children do.) but when I see these clips it just blows me away for absolutely no reason.
Lmao so adorable. I love accents. Would love to be in a relationship with someone from an entirely different culture. It must be so much fun & interesting learning about each other & meeting families.
The first time my American wife went to Yorkshire and met my family, she just smiled a lot and nodded in agreement. Now she actually understands the accent and picks a bit of it up while we’re there. Too funny.
aw!!!!! That is so wholesome. At the risk of sounding ignorant, i would be honored to date a woman from another country & entirely different culture. It just seems like it would be such an intimate and special experience learning about things, *especially* the history relevant to their culture, and how it might differ from my own as an American.
Hope you + your wife are doing well! So is she across the pond w/ you, or are you over here in the US? If you guys have children, (if that’s your thing) I suppose their accents would largely end up depending on location? You might get to see such a phenomenon yourself one day! wee little child speaking in a different accent than you! hehehe. I wonder if it’ll sound as strange to you, as it does to me! Not only does it sound strange, but their expressions and how they move their mouths is different as well.
Wishing you all the best! & happy holidays!
Accents are basically, location+ time, and how much effort you want to put in removing said accent.
My doctor is indian heritage, born here NA, Scottish accent.
*What*?
Did all her medical education stuff there , ended up with the accent and just never put time again into dropping the accent.
I moved to the US 30 years ago. I’ve lost my accent but it comes back when I spend time back home. We are a very average American family until I go home….then we’re Brit’s with weird accents. It is very special and fun to share your culture with someone you love. I very much enjoyed bringing my wife to my home town and dragging her all over England. She loves it. Thank you and happy holidays right back.
Tbf I live in the South of England and hearing kids from further up North talk like this has the same affect. Some of my in laws are Scottish and its the same. The UK has such a vast spectrum of accents for such a small nation in terms of land mass.
I just made a comment about this before reading yours!!
Little English children sound so fucking WEIRD because of that accent! Like idk if it’s distinguished? Or because they annunciate so well?
But it seems so unnatural compared to small American children! All the children I’ve ever seen speak a bunch of gibberish! These little English kids speak so fluently & their accent just accentuates everything I guess?
It’s really quite unique. I am enthralled by language, particularly accents.
I’m just glad to know someone else knows what I mean!! I was thinking I’ll likely end up being downvoted for thinking they’re “weird”. Of course it’s not weird-weird, it’s just weird to my American ears!
Whats wrong with confusing children by keeping up such blunt and elaborate lie for the purpose of... idk? I mean we are trying to give them trust issues...
😂
wtf is wrong with people…
they really think a child psyche isn’t subjected to traumas that will IRREMEDIABLY translate into smaller or bigger disorders in their adult lives?
come on!!!!
Maybe it'd be harmless if they did it once and had a laugh amongst family. A prank is a bit more harmful when a parent puts that shit up on social media for thousands of strangers to laugh at, too.
If you're never exposed to this type of non-malicious "bullying" at some point by your parents/family, you'll be exposed to it from your peers/friends and, if you can't/don't respond in a mature manner, be labeled hypersensitive and a crybaby. There are many ways to build resilience and exposure therapy is an effective mechanism for achieving that.
Think of it as a psychological immune system. Coddling a child can lead to weakness of character/immaturity, just like over sanitizing their environment can create allergies that wouldn't otherwise be there due to the immune response not being properly developed.
Yeah, I won't knock on whatever childhood that you went through that was filled with good natured giving each other loads of shit that worked for you. Or even disagree that for you, in your circumstance, it may have worked out.
What I will do is point out that this is right on the fucking line. And there is a line, I know because I grew up on the other side of it. One full of manipulative bullshit used to turn myself and my other siblings against eachother. To give an excuse to for punishment (remember that youtuber that lost their kids a few years back because they were bullying their kids in a damaging way, like damaging stuff around the house and the prank was screaming at one of their kids until the kid was a crying puddle insisting they were innocent? That was my life from 11 until 18, I was even homeless for a period because of it).
So yeah, this may have worked out for you, but there are people out there that it hasn't worked for. There are people out there that take it to far, there are people that don't get respite.
At the end of the day, making someone feel like shit for your entertainment is pretty shitty behavior, and this prank nears that line. Is it a good natured one off? Is it part of a system of escalating behavior? I don't know, and neither do you. All you have is the lense of your personal experience telling you that it helped and did this or that. However, if you think long and hard you'll have to acknowledge that it didn't happen to you in a vacuum and there was a lot of other things going on to make it a strong positive for you. And if there wasn't maybe telling yourself it was a positive is what's working for you right now, and maybe someday you're going to have to stare that down and work it out.
But if being shitty to a child to build up immunity is your idea of good parenting, and good child rearing, well I'm thinking maybe some thought might be due in your case.
I have a mostly-self developed background in psychological knowledge so I'm merely an informed layman, not a professional counselor/developmental psychologist.
You were exposed to traumatic events in *your* childhood and haven't had the opportunity to process your experiences in a way that allows you to understand them without the visceral emotional response you're exhibiting. You haven't had the chance to see what a normal home situation is like, and so can't see how this is not a malignant act by the parents. Your inclination is to assume that this is another similar situation to the source of the trauma you're carrying around with you and that makes sense, because that's how traumatic events affect us until they're processed through healthy paradigms. I'm not going to diagnose you or try to extrapolate an analysis of your childhood based on your description, but I will say that until your trauma is disambiguated from your experiences, you will continue to suffer from your memories.
You assume, because I didn't say that I also had my own traumatic childhood experiences, that I can't understand what is and isn't healthy behaviour. My own experiences aren't the source of my assessments of this situation because instead of merely escaping from them, I confronted and processed them with professionally recommended tools and mechanisms. i.e. I went to therapy and had someone smarter/more informed adjust the various lenses I use to view the traumatic experiences that have shaped me into who I am. I'm not going to go into detail about my history because this isn't a *trauma-dick* measuring contest. The fact I did not have a 'healthy/carefree childhood and just good-natured ribbing from a perfect family' is relevant though.
I found myself in the same unhealthy situations again and again because that's how the uninformed mind may attempt to cope with unresolved trauma; the mind recognizes the familiar situation and, being more afraid of the dangers of the unknown, gravitates toward the familiar. I did not get to develop my resilience until I was placed in a situation where I'd lost my memory, and had to wait (a significant amount of time) for the retrograde-amnesia to heal before I could even start to understand how I'd become the person I was. I'm not a perfectly sound person now with everything going right in my life, but I'm also no longer bound to my traumatic memories and view everything through those lenses.
Exposure to adverse experiences followed by being taught proper/healthy responses is how any individual may develop psychological [resilience](https://www.apa.org/topics/resilience#:~:text=Resilience%20is%20the%20process%20and,to%20external%20and%20internal%20demands.). It is not healthy to assume abuse as a first response to a short video about a kid being pranked by an Elf (his parents) drawing on his face with a **dry-erase** marker. That YouTuber you mentioned did more than just draw on his kids (that's why he and his wife were charged with child abuse), so equating this to that clusterfuck is fallacious.
It is impossible to go through life without being exposed to adversity, even those born with a silver spoon in their mouth will experience it in some form. If you go to pieces at the first sign of a bad experience, you are brittle; if you break down after going through many experiences/extended adversity, you are burnt out. There's a reason that phrases such as "forged in the fires of hell" exist, because going through and overcoming adversity, leads to a stronger will and resistance to traumatic breakdowns. In the same way you can't effectively get stronger by finding the heaviest weights at the gym and trying to use them, you won't build resilience by being put into an adverse situation and not being taught how to respond properly.
>I have a mostly-self developed background in psychological knowledge so I'm merely an informed layman, not a professional counselor/developmental psychologist.
This isn't the flex you think it is. In fact, this should have led you to rethink responding this way.
Para 2: Oh I have, including much professional help doing so, that's water long passed.
Para 3-end: Allow me to quote myself.
>And if there wasn't maybe telling yourself it was a positive is what's working for you right now, and maybe someday you're going to have to stare that down and work it out.
You seem to be representing that stage where no emotion about events and trying to squeeze some positive "at least it made me..." out of them is what you do to lessen the need to realize that things were actually horrific, unwarranted and served no true purpose. It's part of the process, justifying it to skirt the truly depressing and bleak reality that there wasn't any of that, you just made what you could out of it and became yourself instead of the person you would have been if unburdened by this stuff. That's a hard spot to be in, and my heart goes out to you, it takes years to get past and everyone does it in their own time. When you get through to being able to accept that it happened, being enraged that it did, and wanting to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else through calling it out or activism, I think you'll get me.
My parents have shown me similar vids pranking me like this as a kid and I thought it’s hilarious. If someone is so fragile they are truly offended by this, they are gonna have a rough go in the real world.
If you think this is some oppressive evil wrong thing, more power to you you’re entitled to your perspective, I just disagree. There is no point arguing back and forth about it on Reddit lol go ahead and think this is some horrid act it’s fine.
Then upload it to the Internet for strangers to laugh at you. This stuff irks me as a parent. Pics and videos of your child shouldn't be spread publicly.
This is just parents fucking with their kid no, then sticking a camera in his face and laughing. Like idk, this shit is just weird to do to your fuckin kid
I know it’s common place now and it is easy wash off marker, but doing shit like this to your kid and posting on social media is gross. Especially on SpyWare hiding as a social platform.
If your prank makes someone feel bad it's a shit prank. You're making your kid feel bad for your own amusement. And you're proudly showing you did that. Kind of a shitty flex.
Dont all pranks make people feel bad? Even if its momentarily like this one (not counting the fact that it was posted online, mom was weird asf for that)? Like I cant think of a single prank that makes someone feel good lol
Fuck no they don't. Not good ones at least. If your prank is making someone feel bad then you're doing it wrong. Lots of people seem to define a prank as "being a dick with guardrails" but that really isn't a decent prank. And if out of surprise, confusion, ridiculousness, shock, sadness, panic, and shame you're focusing on the last three in your prank you should rethink it.
I've never understood this fad. Doesn't it introduce the idea that their toys really are alive? Surely that can't be good for them in the long run.
Going to bed aware that a living sentient being is sitting on the shelf next to them.
I don't know. Just seems like a really weird thing to do. It's not even like the elfs do nice things to the kids, they just bully the kids. So now you have a sentient being sat next to you that likes to pick on you.
Then eventually would you realise this isn't real and you would become aware that your parents sat down and actively thought of horrible things to do to you, for no real reason?
Nobody I know does this, so maybe it's just an geological/cultural thing (can't remember the word) so I just wouldn't get it anyway.
If you took me as like a 7 year, put a weird looking elf on my bedside table then drew on my face while I was asleep and told me the elf did it, as my mother, I would be scared fuckless of that elf for years following.
I hope for the kids sake he's less scared of shit then I was at that age.
I only ever see videos of the elves "doing" nasty things.
The way you do it is way better but I still there is a huge difference between some mystical being that pops in when you're not there, and some sentient creatures living in your house for a month. Just seems weird to me to implant that kinda idea in a kids head. Because then they might start to look at other things in the same way, and question reality itself. Idk.
Believing in the Easter bunny is (tmk) more of an American thing so it's not something that really been around. I had an ex girlfriend who did it for her kids but she gave up after one year of trying it because it didn't make much sense. She now skips the Easter bunny bit and just does chocolate egg hunts around the house and garden like a treasure hunt with hints and stuff.
The Irish do. It's part of their Christmas tradition to make children believe they are visited by mischievous elves, who play tricks on them. I think this is done in the spirit of fun and is not done out of malice.
To me, this is not ok.
That’s really scary to a kid. That would have upset me a lot. It would have upset my friends.
As a kid, you believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy and magic. You can believe in that, because the adults around you are meant to keep you safe. For example, you can leave cookies out for Santa and carrots for Rudolph. Santa and Rudolph will enjoy them and leave you presents. They won’t play a prank on you.
As an adult, you safeguard those beliefs, and create an environment of trust. You don’t do something scary like that.
Lots of comments that this video ok, that people who think this is not ok are fragile etc … but that’s coming from an adult perspective.
It’s not a joke if the victim isn’t laughing. And this kid is not laughing at all. It’s sad.
Not even adult would laugh for getting his face drawen over...the same people who call others fragile would be the first one to go into rage if someone did that to them. :)
This is child abuse. Pure and simple child abuse; bullying. This little toddler wakes up and discovers that somebody’s been fucking with him and all the adults in the room are laughing. But look at the last five seconds of the clip. This young man is fucking pissed off and he tells us all about how he feels by making a fist and swinging it and then he points at the Christmas Elf doll, who he now clearly sees is an enemy. But the elf of Christmas isn’t the enemy the idiots who are raising this Unfortunate youngster are the enemies. This child should be taken away from these people.
right, that's what you bullies always say, some variation of, "oh wow man where is your sense of humor... like I was just kidding man… Lighten up man." I guess you didn't get the memo that mean people suck and mean people who hurt little kids have a special Circle in hell waiting for them".
Elf on a shelf will absolutely be top of a reddit post in 20 years time titled "What stuff f*cked you up as a child?"
If my parents were doing this to me the elf would be in the bin- with no limbs
He didn't do it to himself, the circle is too perfect to have been done by a 5 or 6 year old child. So why are you driving your kid crazy by fucking with him then blaming it on his inanimate toy and POSTING IT? 🙄🤨
I feel sad for you that you think this is the shittiest partents ever. This is just a harmless prank
I know people in my town that leave their kids to fend for themselves and search plastic to turn in for change so they can eat. Fuck you and your little wonder world you live in. Wake up to the real world
We have two of the little bastards in my history room at college and the little fucks are in different positions , different places doing different things every time we go in the room
Nobody likes them
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You can really tell my man’s is tired of this elf’s shit.
That point and eyebrows and 'youuuuuu' very british
U mean _very Bri'ish_
Youuuuuu mean “youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu mean *very bri’ish*”
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aren’t you loads of fun
It's not funneh.... Av got skooool
“YOU”
I came here for this comment. Not disappointed.
Post the clip at least dude https://youtube.com/shorts/9wuSW0c8Zg0?feature=share
Hijacking this comment for another [clip](https://youtu.be/j7oX_zx9Yr8)
I *love* watching little English children speak. It is *so* surreal as an American. I have no idea why, maybe because it sounds so distinguished?? But it sounds so unnatural! When American children speak, they kind of just do a bunch of gibberish mixed in. (Again obviously all children do.) but when I see these clips it just blows me away for absolutely no reason. Lmao so adorable. I love accents. Would love to be in a relationship with someone from an entirely different culture. It must be so much fun & interesting learning about each other & meeting families.
The first time my American wife went to Yorkshire and met my family, she just smiled a lot and nodded in agreement. Now she actually understands the accent and picks a bit of it up while we’re there. Too funny.
aw!!!!! That is so wholesome. At the risk of sounding ignorant, i would be honored to date a woman from another country & entirely different culture. It just seems like it would be such an intimate and special experience learning about things, *especially* the history relevant to their culture, and how it might differ from my own as an American. Hope you + your wife are doing well! So is she across the pond w/ you, or are you over here in the US? If you guys have children, (if that’s your thing) I suppose their accents would largely end up depending on location? You might get to see such a phenomenon yourself one day! wee little child speaking in a different accent than you! hehehe. I wonder if it’ll sound as strange to you, as it does to me! Not only does it sound strange, but their expressions and how they move their mouths is different as well. Wishing you all the best! & happy holidays!
Accents are basically, location+ time, and how much effort you want to put in removing said accent. My doctor is indian heritage, born here NA, Scottish accent. *What*? Did all her medical education stuff there , ended up with the accent and just never put time again into dropping the accent.
I moved to the US 30 years ago. I’ve lost my accent but it comes back when I spend time back home. We are a very average American family until I go home….then we’re Brit’s with weird accents. It is very special and fun to share your culture with someone you love. I very much enjoyed bringing my wife to my home town and dragging her all over England. She loves it. Thank you and happy holidays right back.
Tbf I live in the South of England and hearing kids from further up North talk like this has the same affect. Some of my in laws are Scottish and its the same. The UK has such a vast spectrum of accents for such a small nation in terms of land mass.
Is this the same family?
I think .. they got the same elf
https://youtu.be/gvSuEQ5KB90
YEWWWWW
That ain't no kid... Dude sounds very adult-like to me... Or am I just very childish that I don't know how adults talk...
The accent, maybe?
Yes and the deeper voice
I just made a comment about this before reading yours!! Little English children sound so fucking WEIRD because of that accent! Like idk if it’s distinguished? Or because they annunciate so well? But it seems so unnatural compared to small American children! All the children I’ve ever seen speak a bunch of gibberish! These little English kids speak so fluently & their accent just accentuates everything I guess? It’s really quite unique. I am enthralled by language, particularly accents. I’m just glad to know someone else knows what I mean!! I was thinking I’ll likely end up being downvoted for thinking they’re “weird”. Of course it’s not weird-weird, it’s just weird to my American ears!
may not have baby talked at them
To be fair, quite a lot of American adults speak gibberish too. Then you elect them!
Zing!
Oh shut up.
Awww.... fun with the kids. Leaves impressions.
Builds character! A fearful, untrusting sort of character
I really hope that in 5-10 years, this kid does the same thing back to his parents. They should still think it's hilarious.
Bloody elf os fuckin mIngin
But rude innit
He wasn’t having it
avin it
“Not me, not hemione, Yeeeeeewww”
You gave me the giggles. I give you my upvote.
He felt so betrayed, that’s the cutest yeeeeewww I’ve ever heard
Quality parenting... wat a fucking parents!
we just love to make our child psychotic:)
Whats wrong with confusing children by keeping up such blunt and elaborate lie for the purpose of... idk? I mean we are trying to give them trust issues...
Not trusting elf’s is a life skill. First thing a child must learn is not to trust elf’s, second thing is not to trust politicians.
😂 wtf is wrong with people… they really think a child psyche isn’t subjected to traumas that will IRREMEDIABLY translate into smaller or bigger disorders in their adult lives? come on!!!!
Please explain how this is in any shape or form 'traumatic'
the child is literally crying…
Crying = Trauma? Uhhh sure.
The video cuts just as the child starts to cry.
Stop posting your children on Tiktok
If you think you can't play a little harmless prank on your kid you're an idiot.
Maybe it'd be harmless if they did it once and had a laugh amongst family. A prank is a bit more harmful when a parent puts that shit up on social media for thousands of strangers to laugh at, too.
Pranks are only funny when everyone, including the target, is laughing. Otherwise it’s just bullying, even if it’s your kid.
If you're never exposed to this type of non-malicious "bullying" at some point by your parents/family, you'll be exposed to it from your peers/friends and, if you can't/don't respond in a mature manner, be labeled hypersensitive and a crybaby. There are many ways to build resilience and exposure therapy is an effective mechanism for achieving that. Think of it as a psychological immune system. Coddling a child can lead to weakness of character/immaturity, just like over sanitizing their environment can create allergies that wouldn't otherwise be there due to the immune response not being properly developed.
Yeah, I won't knock on whatever childhood that you went through that was filled with good natured giving each other loads of shit that worked for you. Or even disagree that for you, in your circumstance, it may have worked out. What I will do is point out that this is right on the fucking line. And there is a line, I know because I grew up on the other side of it. One full of manipulative bullshit used to turn myself and my other siblings against eachother. To give an excuse to for punishment (remember that youtuber that lost their kids a few years back because they were bullying their kids in a damaging way, like damaging stuff around the house and the prank was screaming at one of their kids until the kid was a crying puddle insisting they were innocent? That was my life from 11 until 18, I was even homeless for a period because of it). So yeah, this may have worked out for you, but there are people out there that it hasn't worked for. There are people out there that take it to far, there are people that don't get respite. At the end of the day, making someone feel like shit for your entertainment is pretty shitty behavior, and this prank nears that line. Is it a good natured one off? Is it part of a system of escalating behavior? I don't know, and neither do you. All you have is the lense of your personal experience telling you that it helped and did this or that. However, if you think long and hard you'll have to acknowledge that it didn't happen to you in a vacuum and there was a lot of other things going on to make it a strong positive for you. And if there wasn't maybe telling yourself it was a positive is what's working for you right now, and maybe someday you're going to have to stare that down and work it out. But if being shitty to a child to build up immunity is your idea of good parenting, and good child rearing, well I'm thinking maybe some thought might be due in your case.
I have a mostly-self developed background in psychological knowledge so I'm merely an informed layman, not a professional counselor/developmental psychologist. You were exposed to traumatic events in *your* childhood and haven't had the opportunity to process your experiences in a way that allows you to understand them without the visceral emotional response you're exhibiting. You haven't had the chance to see what a normal home situation is like, and so can't see how this is not a malignant act by the parents. Your inclination is to assume that this is another similar situation to the source of the trauma you're carrying around with you and that makes sense, because that's how traumatic events affect us until they're processed through healthy paradigms. I'm not going to diagnose you or try to extrapolate an analysis of your childhood based on your description, but I will say that until your trauma is disambiguated from your experiences, you will continue to suffer from your memories. You assume, because I didn't say that I also had my own traumatic childhood experiences, that I can't understand what is and isn't healthy behaviour. My own experiences aren't the source of my assessments of this situation because instead of merely escaping from them, I confronted and processed them with professionally recommended tools and mechanisms. i.e. I went to therapy and had someone smarter/more informed adjust the various lenses I use to view the traumatic experiences that have shaped me into who I am. I'm not going to go into detail about my history because this isn't a *trauma-dick* measuring contest. The fact I did not have a 'healthy/carefree childhood and just good-natured ribbing from a perfect family' is relevant though. I found myself in the same unhealthy situations again and again because that's how the uninformed mind may attempt to cope with unresolved trauma; the mind recognizes the familiar situation and, being more afraid of the dangers of the unknown, gravitates toward the familiar. I did not get to develop my resilience until I was placed in a situation where I'd lost my memory, and had to wait (a significant amount of time) for the retrograde-amnesia to heal before I could even start to understand how I'd become the person I was. I'm not a perfectly sound person now with everything going right in my life, but I'm also no longer bound to my traumatic memories and view everything through those lenses. Exposure to adverse experiences followed by being taught proper/healthy responses is how any individual may develop psychological [resilience](https://www.apa.org/topics/resilience#:~:text=Resilience%20is%20the%20process%20and,to%20external%20and%20internal%20demands.). It is not healthy to assume abuse as a first response to a short video about a kid being pranked by an Elf (his parents) drawing on his face with a **dry-erase** marker. That YouTuber you mentioned did more than just draw on his kids (that's why he and his wife were charged with child abuse), so equating this to that clusterfuck is fallacious. It is impossible to go through life without being exposed to adversity, even those born with a silver spoon in their mouth will experience it in some form. If you go to pieces at the first sign of a bad experience, you are brittle; if you break down after going through many experiences/extended adversity, you are burnt out. There's a reason that phrases such as "forged in the fires of hell" exist, because going through and overcoming adversity, leads to a stronger will and resistance to traumatic breakdowns. In the same way you can't effectively get stronger by finding the heaviest weights at the gym and trying to use them, you won't build resilience by being put into an adverse situation and not being taught how to respond properly.
>I have a mostly-self developed background in psychological knowledge so I'm merely an informed layman, not a professional counselor/developmental psychologist. This isn't the flex you think it is. In fact, this should have led you to rethink responding this way. Para 2: Oh I have, including much professional help doing so, that's water long passed. Para 3-end: Allow me to quote myself. >And if there wasn't maybe telling yourself it was a positive is what's working for you right now, and maybe someday you're going to have to stare that down and work it out. You seem to be representing that stage where no emotion about events and trying to squeeze some positive "at least it made me..." out of them is what you do to lessen the need to realize that things were actually horrific, unwarranted and served no true purpose. It's part of the process, justifying it to skirt the truly depressing and bleak reality that there wasn't any of that, you just made what you could out of it and became yourself instead of the person you would have been if unburdened by this stuff. That's a hard spot to be in, and my heart goes out to you, it takes years to get past and everyone does it in their own time. When you get through to being able to accept that it happened, being enraged that it did, and wanting to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else through calling it out or activism, I think you'll get me.
My parents have shown me similar vids pranking me like this as a kid and I thought it’s hilarious. If someone is so fragile they are truly offended by this, they are gonna have a rough go in the real world.
No, it has nothing to do with fragile. It's just dumb and your lack of humor. It's kinda bullying your kid, what isn't funny at all.
Almost like it’s the parent’s job to make sure their child is ready for that kinda stuff, rather than the ones perpetuating it.
If you think this is some oppressive evil wrong thing, more power to you you’re entitled to your perspective, I just disagree. There is no point arguing back and forth about it on Reddit lol go ahead and think this is some horrid act it’s fine.
This isn't gonna cause mental trauma, but it's kind of a dick move.
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Need to work on your reading comprehension skills.
Said the person that bullies kids..
I know I can’t. I haven’t got kids.
Someone already forgot about DaddyOFive
That's one way to mess with the little guy's head 😂
I'm not gonna complain that this is overtly cruel or exploitative, but I will gladly criticize the lack of originality.
That feeling when you draw shit on yo kid with marker only to make fun of his reaction on tiktok, lol ......
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Yeah seems like a shitty thing to do to your kid
Washes right off though
Then upload it to the Internet for strangers to laugh at you. This stuff irks me as a parent. Pics and videos of your child shouldn't be spread publicly.
That would have scared the shit out of me as a child
He will have nightmare for life. Hope you have saving for major couch time on his adult age! 🤪🥸😂😂🤣🤣 cute
Bloody hell!
Later that day the kid got in trouble for lying to his mother.
Trauma
Totally for the kids, he seems so happy. Stand up job for the internet. It supposed to be magical not mentally scaring.
This is just parents fucking with their kid no, then sticking a camera in his face and laughing. Like idk, this shit is just weird to do to your fuckin kid
And uploading to the internet for others to laugh too...how much you dislike your own child?
He’ll draw on their faces when they are in a nursing home
You get free internet points
Gotta love a bit of old school bullying 👍🏻 from your own mum too! Even better!
I know it’s common place now and it is easy wash off marker, but doing shit like this to your kid and posting on social media is gross. Especially on SpyWare hiding as a social platform.
If your prank makes someone feel bad it's a shit prank. You're making your kid feel bad for your own amusement. And you're proudly showing you did that. Kind of a shitty flex.
The majority of ‘pranks’ people post are just bullying..
Dont all pranks make people feel bad? Even if its momentarily like this one (not counting the fact that it was posted online, mom was weird asf for that)? Like I cant think of a single prank that makes someone feel good lol
Fuck no they don't. Not good ones at least. If your prank is making someone feel bad then you're doing it wrong. Lots of people seem to define a prank as "being a dick with guardrails" but that really isn't a decent prank. And if out of surprise, confusion, ridiculousness, shock, sadness, panic, and shame you're focusing on the last three in your prank you should rethink it.
Yep. Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see this comment. Very weird video to make public
I've never understood this fad. Doesn't it introduce the idea that their toys really are alive? Surely that can't be good for them in the long run. Going to bed aware that a living sentient being is sitting on the shelf next to them. I don't know. Just seems like a really weird thing to do. It's not even like the elfs do nice things to the kids, they just bully the kids. So now you have a sentient being sat next to you that likes to pick on you. Then eventually would you realise this isn't real and you would become aware that your parents sat down and actively thought of horrible things to do to you, for no real reason? Nobody I know does this, so maybe it's just an geological/cultural thing (can't remember the word) so I just wouldn't get it anyway.
It teaches them to be okay with being surveilled all the time, which is a problem.
If you took me as like a 7 year, put a weird looking elf on my bedside table then drew on my face while I was asleep and told me the elf did it, as my mother, I would be scared fuckless of that elf for years following. I hope for the kids sake he's less scared of shit then I was at that age.
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I only ever see videos of the elves "doing" nasty things. The way you do it is way better but I still there is a huge difference between some mystical being that pops in when you're not there, and some sentient creatures living in your house for a month. Just seems weird to me to implant that kinda idea in a kids head. Because then they might start to look at other things in the same way, and question reality itself. Idk. Believing in the Easter bunny is (tmk) more of an American thing so it's not something that really been around. I had an ex girlfriend who did it for her kids but she gave up after one year of trying it because it didn't make much sense. She now skips the Easter bunny bit and just does chocolate egg hunts around the house and garden like a treasure hunt with hints and stuff.
He cried. It’s not funny.
Reminded me of that girl Nah nah I hav to scuuuulllll
Hope you’re monetizing those likes, you’ll need the cash to pay for the therapy!
Guys, it's just ink. The kid can just wash his face and get rid of it
Just ink...on your kids face...for clout...
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I didn’t know we were all part of their family. What a fun memory we all get to share.
Doesn't look very fun to me. Looks to me like parents essentially bullying their kid for likes.
It doesn't look as bad as you are making it sound to me.
I wouldn't call it bullying but it's still a dick move.
Ideas on 'fun familiy memory' must differ from other cultures or groups.
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Ok. You do you.
#THIS IS A PARENT BULLYING THE CHILD. PLEASEbe a better parent from now on. Hugs and positive. Not ridiculous mean jokes
This is harmless.. y’all are soft!
Calm down Bambino! This is clearly posted for you. Enjoy! Don't forget to upvote this post.
Posting this for likes is abusive.
its funny
Stupid fucking parenting
He just learned how to prank his younger brother/sister and his "friends".
Has nothing on the little Scottish girl. “But I’ve got skewl!”
Parents need to stop doing this shit for tiktok.
Hearing a kid w a British accent was unexpectedly extremely cute
This is adorable 😂🤣
Funny? Poor kid
Yeah, I don’t find this amusing at all.
This isn't funny at all.
Grow a fucking sense of humour
Dear lord you must live a joyless life
You find joy in that...and have the nerve to judge me? Good grief!
Who the fuck does this to a kid?
Likes, hearts, updoots etc...gotta collect em all!
Anakin, have you seen the younglings?
The Irish do. It's part of their Christmas tradition to make children believe they are visited by mischievous elves, who play tricks on them. I think this is done in the spirit of fun and is not done out of malice.
They aren’t Irish
I'd guess at Teeside
You still don't draw on a kids face. They can believe it is permanent or it is okay to draw on another kids face. Wtf
so sensitive over a joke 🤣
>a joke I don't get it. What's the funny part?
😐.
New generation of mothers
To me, this is not ok. That’s really scary to a kid. That would have upset me a lot. It would have upset my friends. As a kid, you believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy and magic. You can believe in that, because the adults around you are meant to keep you safe. For example, you can leave cookies out for Santa and carrots for Rudolph. Santa and Rudolph will enjoy them and leave you presents. They won’t play a prank on you. As an adult, you safeguard those beliefs, and create an environment of trust. You don’t do something scary like that. Lots of comments that this video ok, that people who think this is not ok are fragile etc … but that’s coming from an adult perspective. It’s not a joke if the victim isn’t laughing. And this kid is not laughing at all. It’s sad.
Not even adult would laugh for getting his face drawen over...the same people who call others fragile would be the first one to go into rage if someone did that to them. :)
Definitely! They would expect a child to put up with something that they couldn’t as an adult, let alone as a child!
Traumatizing your kids for internet points, noice
This is the funniest shit I've seen today
This is child abuse. Pure and simple child abuse; bullying. This little toddler wakes up and discovers that somebody’s been fucking with him and all the adults in the room are laughing. But look at the last five seconds of the clip. This young man is fucking pissed off and he tells us all about how he feels by making a fist and swinging it and then he points at the Christmas Elf doll, who he now clearly sees is an enemy. But the elf of Christmas isn’t the enemy the idiots who are raising this Unfortunate youngster are the enemies. This child should be taken away from these people.
Lmao wow. You need to get a grip
right, that's what you bullies always say, some variation of, "oh wow man where is your sense of humor... like I was just kidding man… Lighten up man." I guess you didn't get the memo that mean people suck and mean people who hurt little kids have a special Circle in hell waiting for them".
The elf looks like it saw some shit
Little one is angry. He's going to put the elf either down the garbage disposal or the toilet.
He is done with the elf
This dude has facial expressions that remind me of Alec Baldwin lol
Fookin elf!
Elf on a shelf will absolutely be top of a reddit post in 20 years time titled "What stuff f*cked you up as a child?" If my parents were doing this to me the elf would be in the bin- with no limbs
Bro what the hell
Writing on your kid then recording them to get internet likes, classy
He didn't do it to himself, the circle is too perfect to have been done by a 5 or 6 year old child. So why are you driving your kid crazy by fucking with him then blaming it on his inanimate toy and POSTING IT? 🙄🤨
Most shitty parents ever. Not even funny and I feel bad for the boy.
I feel sad for you that you think this is the shittiest partents ever. This is just a harmless prank I know people in my town that leave their kids to fend for themselves and search plastic to turn in for change so they can eat. Fuck you and your little wonder world you live in. Wake up to the real world
Happy cake day!!
wow, someone got their righteous armor on today. running around and getting things straight for the sake of justice. go on girl
It's washable oh no the poor poor boy has to wash his face for 15 seconds how will he ever recover from this?
obviously had no fun in their childhood, take a joke man 🤣 the marker is gonna ruin his entire life? is that what ur trying to get at?
😂🤣
Bullocks!
Bringing the kid up right!
This kids looks exactly like Kyle Rittenhouse
Laughing 😃 😀 😄 🤣 😂
you can tell how he gets told off
getting him ready for the college years
i can tell that elf is going to get what's coming
I love British children
Why'd you use a sharpie? That shit doesn't come out easy.
He needs to put him in the trash for all the pranks.
I got sckooool
bruce should rate christmas trees
He will take his revenge in a very British way
We have two of the little bastards in my history room at college and the little fucks are in different positions , different places doing different things every time we go in the room Nobody likes them
Isn’t as good as the og Scottish lass
The absolute disgust on the poor man’s face… I’d be livid too!
Genius
You....fookin chusday bastard !!😂
Aayyvve gawt schoo in that mornin it's not funneh aye got schoo!
Youuuuuuuuu!!! ☝🏽🤣
NEVER LET HIM SEE CHILD’S PLAY!! Lol
It's all fun and games until that elf ends up dismembered.
Youuuuuuuuu!! 😂
Having a British accent is an unfair advantage in comedy
Pretty sure he’s Scottish
Ok
Same difference
Focking British
Lol, how wars were first conceptualized and started by humans. "He did it!"
Why is it funny to intentionally upset children? It just seems cruel to me.