Oh my, kids these days...

Surprise Chibi Inside! · Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:30 pm

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8207965240

Is it just me, or does this kid deserve a severe ass beating? No, not the kind of Ghastly "ass beating", but a severe boot to the ass. I mean, since when did parents actually allow their children to talk to them like that? If I had even said 1/4 of what he said, it wouldn't have been pretty.

Thoughts? Comments? Witty quips?

Toawa · Post by **Toawa** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:44 pm

I can barely make out what he's saying, other then "You're messing me up", although I'll admit I only watched the first minute.... Maybe the good stuff came later, but I've grown bored with it

Surprise Chibi Inside! · Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:57 pm

Toawa wrote:I can barely make out what he's saying, other then "You're messing me up", although I'll admit I only watched the first minute.... Maybe the good stuff came later, but I've grown bored with it

Ah, well it goes into him yelling and cursing at his mom. It's both funny and sad at the same time, seeing as how it lasted to long.

Lenient parents I suppose.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:42 pm

I couldn't even watch past the first set of insults. The urge to kill, definately rising.

LeftTentacleGreen · Post by **LeftTentacleGreen** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:48 pm

I'd reserve the ass-kicking until I heard all the facts of what was going on. Some parents deserve it when their kids react negatively.

It sounds to me that each one was trying to maintain dominance and neither side was budging.

Major Maxillary · Post by **Major Maxillary** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:57 pm

she should slap the shit out of him. rude punk.

This looks like a job for Maddox!

MaryxTyphus · Post by **MaryxTyphus** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:43 am

Maddox is overrated

But yes, I also have the urge to beat the fuck out of him with a foot long spiked paddle.

Mariesalias · Post by **Mariesalias** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 10:11 am

The kid shouldn't be cursing at his mom, but on the other hand... I hate when people try to make you stop in the middle of a battle. So I can feel his pain. ;D

At first he's playing for time, trying to distract her from making him stop playing, then re-direct her, then he's trying to guilt her, then he finally dissolves into the insuilts.

The mother totally mis-handled the situation. She did not take control. She did not set limits, or rather, she did not back up the limits she set. And then, in the end, she just walked away.

The kid won. By the sounds of it, this is probably a routine too. It happened pretty fluidly, meaning, it's happened before. The kid has learnt how to get around his mother.

Yeah, the child needs discipline... but beating him isn't going to help anything. just make it worse. The mother needs some serious lessons in how to effectively set boundries and reinforce them. She needs to learn how to follow-through with positive disipline.

Of course...

The fact that he kept going on even after she was obviously gone shows that it wasn't just about the game. The kid's right, her parenting is bullshit.

Surprise Chibi Inside! · Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:51 pm

mariesalias wrote:The kid shouldn't be cursing at his mom, but on the other hand... I hate when people try to make you stop in the middle of a battle. So I can feel his pain. ;D

At first he's playing for time, trying to distract her from making him stop playing, then re-direct her, then he's trying to guilt her, then he finally dissolves into the insuilts.

The mother totally mis-handled the situation. She did not take control. She did not set limits, or rather, she did not back up the limits she set. And then, in the end, she just walked away.

The kid won. By the sounds of it, this is probably a routine too. It happened pretty fluidly, meaning, it's happened before. The kid has learnt how to get around his mother.

Yeah, the child needs discipline... but beating him isn't going to help anything. just make it worse. The mother needs some serious lessons in how to effectively set boundries and reinforce them. She needs to learn how to follow-through with positive disipline.

Of course...

The fact that he kept going on even after she was obviously gone shows that it wasn't just about the game. The kid's right, her parenting is bullshit.

You do make some good points there. After all, if the parent just lets this sort of behavior continue time after time...eventually the kid is going to realize that he can get what he wants if he waits long enough. When I was being raised, it was simple. I could play a video game up until it was time for me to go to sleep. At that point, it was time to go to sleep and I could play the game the next day. It was that simple.

What seems to be happening today with parents, is that they don't actually know how to parent their kids. Instead of acting and doing what's best for their children, they succumb to the guilt that this kid's laying on them. The preferrable solution to the problem would be to turn off the kid's computer, and tell him he can play the game the next day. In doing so, the parent would be helping the child prepare for adulthood, where they would have to set their own limits.

So yes, his mom could use some improvement and he needs an attitude adjustment. Although the use of force in this case, at least physical violence, wouldn't help anything.

Major Maxillary · Post by **Major Maxillary** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:18 pm

Five across the face for acting like a douchebag. turning off, and maybe taking away, his Xbox for staying on it past his bedtime without prior special event notification. washing his mouth out with soap for his language.

Dudegirl · Post by **Dudegirl** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:34 pm

The kid sounded a little like Jimmy Neutron. The Mouth of his character actually Moved! That's creepy.

Sweet or Sour · Post by **Sweet or Sour** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 2:38 pm

Perhaps it deserves to be pointed out that if the precedent hadn?t obviously been previously set, this event would never have taken place. It?s unlikely that the child with the microphone woke up one day perfectly well-disciplined, and decided that on that day he would have such an argument over such odd things. The kid had obviously flattened his parent[s] on much more trivial matters far previous to this.

Alter alias · Post by **Alter alias** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:49 am

More thankful than ever for having competent parents

Seriously there should be some sort of test for parenthood any one that folds at the knees to a little kid is immediately disqualified, personally I would have flicked the fuse box off and told him that he wasn't having the console on again until he apologized (fuse box because the console he could have just switched right back on once I stopped paying attention)

Oh for the sake of avoiding a riot, yes I am well aware that it would be wrong to impose a test of parenthood as it would give all the wrong people far more power than they deserve.

Unholy · Post by **Unholy** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:34 am

LindaH · Post by **LindaH** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:50 am

spoiled bratt!!

if i had even thought about talking to my parents like that i would have appologised! even when i was dissapointed in them for not calling me Linda after 1.5 years i would never ever dream of even raising my voice!

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:40 am

I not only know and experiance parents and children like this, but I can also say that, aside from the swearing, stuff like this is frequent.

This kid had a valid point at first; he was in an important clan match, his mother hadn't told him that he wasn't allowed to play, and he wanted to finish that one match. I can't say how many times my parents kicked me off the computer, when I was playing games that counted for my record. My mother does not understand video games besides pacman, and cannot differentiate between games that let you save any time, and games played over the internet. When I try to explain that I need about 15 minutes to finish the game, she thinks I am just trying to squeeze in more time because I don't want to get off. It's very hard to explain to her.

However, it is clear that this child's mother is a very poor parent. She does not stick to her rules (she lets this little monster weasel his way into playing at night, which he himself says that she does not let him do) which is one of the worst mistakes in parenting anyone can make.

Second, it is clear that this child is adept in the psychology of his mother. He quickly redirected the argument to being about some drink she was supposed to give him. Even though he was being ridiculus is his demands 'I changed my mind, I want some fuckin' chocolate milk!', he changed the argument to be about whether or not she was doing what she said she would do.

I bet this mother was let down by her parent(s) before, where they went back on what they said they would do, and her son is playing on her fear of becoming a parent who goes back on what she says.

As far as that language goes, I have nothing to say.

Error of Logic · Post by **Error of Logic** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:59 am

In the humorous fantasy novel 'Job', a man voiced the opinion that male children should be locked in a barrel and fed and watered through the bunghole until such time that a valid judgment could be made of their character. At that time, it would be up to well-informed people to decide whether to pop open the lid ... or simply close up the bunghole.

I'm not for starving people to death, but when reading some items, a review board of children's progress with the power to inflict some measure of discipline beyond the parent's sounds quite nice ... -_-

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:07 pm

Unplug the computer, pour the chocolate milk on his head, and take his CS CD.

Indigo Violent · Post by **Indigo Violent** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:03 pm

There is something just inherently cruel and ironic about how being a parent is supposed to require wisdom and maturity, yet it's a position so many people find themselves in because they're too stupid or irresponsible to use birth control.

Putaro · Post by **Putaro** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:15 pm

Well, as a parent, one of the things that I find amazingly frustrating is that after thousands of years of parenting we, as a species, can't agree what course of parenting will consistently turn out well-adjusted, happy, productive individuals.

You can pretty much find an "expert" who will tell you whatever you want to hear when it comes to parenting (or anything else psychological related). We're trying to follow our own course with what makes sense to us and just praying that we don't screw our kids up.

And as for that child, yah, five across the mouth and the XBox goes in the trash. And then five across the mouth for the parent for letting things get to that point.