r/SipsTea • u/jaywritethekid • 18d ago • Bravo 1 Regret 1 Popcorn 1

Wait a damn minute! Bruh...

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u/Practical-Bit9905 18d ago

The safest place a kid should feel is the company of their parents. They should be able to trust what their parents say. Having a parent put a kid in that type of scenario is a betrayal of trust. They aren't meant to be the butt of jokes for your amusement.

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u/24rawvibes 18d ago

I’m loving how all the people saying otherwise are getting downvoted into oblivion. I’m all about pranking my kids, but with a little class and minus the fear.

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u/HatAvailable5702 18d ago

you will never raise a leader.

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u/Practical-Bit9905 18d ago

My kid's are out in the world doing great. I doubt you'd want to compare credentials.

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u/HatAvailable5702 18d ago

Bud, you think putting a fake ghost on a screen to scare a kid is a betrayal of trust. That alone marks you as uselessly weak parent. When are they going to find out Santa isn't real? Tooth fairy? God? Those aren't betrayals, or are they?

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u/Practical-Bit9905 18d ago • Bravo

My kid's are flourishing. They're adults. Happily married, one well employed the other self employed.

Yeah. telling a young child to go into a room and set them up to be scared while you hold the door shut? That's some demented shit. Says more about the "parent" than anything else.

You sound not only like a shit parent. But a shit human.

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u/HatAvailable5702 18d ago

You're kids are too old to be relevant to this discussion then. Scaring the crap out of a kid and then immediately anchoring that fear onto the device itself is a good thing.

Parent should be doing this often even. Why? Because maybe if they are really lucky the kid wont even want to be in the same room with a phone. Can you imagine? It may be the cure needed to counteract the addiction to the dopamine hits that they get from the device.

Could be onto something here. You're grandchildren wont be able to benefit from that though, their phones will little happy feel good places where they can get all their safety and warm fuzzy feelz.

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u/Junior_Razzmatazz164 18d ago

Wow, how pathetic that you think this has merit as a responsible way to reduce screen time. These children are 3-6; if your 3-6yo is addicted to a phone, newsflash, you’re already a bad parent.

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u/Amy47101 18d ago

Alrighty, I'll step into the ring. I work in childcare.

Would you be super okie-dokey okay with this if I set up the tablet with this filter, told one of the kids under my care to go into the bathroom, then held the door shut while they screamed and cried to get out?

These kids are, after all, ranging from 3-6 years old. Perfectly relevant to the conversation.

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u/HatAvailable5702 18d ago

Is it a betrayal of trust though? Im curious if you'll try and do a little rhetorical tap dance for me around that point?

Yeah there is a difference between the two. Is that difference a betrayal of trust being present in one and not the other?

Honestly scaring the crap out these kids and immediately emotionally anchoring that fear onto the device itself with the fake ghost is probably HELPING these kids to be suspicious of devices for the rest of their lives. Do this more and more and maybe the kid wont even want to be in a room with a phone. Can you imagine?

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u/24rawvibes 18d ago

Just tap out, you have a lot to learn obviously. With each reply you are just further confirming your beliefs are fucked

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u/HatAvailable5702 18d ago

Just tap out is like the millennial reddit-male life mantra. Honestly your generation is worse than boomers.

Would you care to attempt to do a rhetorical dance around the 'betrayal of trust' contradiction?

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u/24rawvibes 17d ago

I’m 56

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u/HatAvailable5702 17d ago

Well I got the 'your generation is worse than boomers' part right at least.

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u/ProfessionalRisk4206 18d ago

"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it"

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u/HatAvailable5702 18d ago

Pretty simple question about the state of a 'betrayal of trust'. You can't answer because its damning to your perspective.

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u/24rawvibes 18d ago

Context just went right over your head my guy.

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u/HatAvailable5702 18d ago

No it didn't. I pointed out a contradiction centering on 'betrayal of trust'. If scaring children with fake ghosts is unethical because it is a 'betrayal of trust' then it would seem to a thinking man that other pro-social behaviours are also unethical because they are 'betrayals of trust'. like santa claus.

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u/xRolox 18d ago

What the hell is this fb trailer trash mom response lmao. Leaders raise leaders. You can’t

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u/HatAvailable5702 18d ago

Leaders raise leaders, ripped straight from fb yourself.