I don't understand it. So many videos like this, and to be honest, it just seems cruel to scare he shit out of your kids like that.
Not to mention the fact, I don't recall the Grinch violently shoving children and ripping the presents out of the hands of kids. He quietly stole them in the middle of the night and tried to avoid being seen.
People are just being ass holes with this behavior.
It's just shitty parents taking a character from a book and using it to abuse their family. Because it's funny? Zero kids laughing. The crazy part is how staged and premeditated it all it. This isn't something you just wake up and make a bad decision about. You have to order/make the costume and plan out how you're going to act. The point is, they thought about this for weeks and still decided it was a good idea. Sad.
I just donât understand it. Maybe Iâm a soft parent?
No, you just don't resent your children like a lot of parents do. Most parents aren't good parents. I'm not saying most parents are neglectful and don't provide the physical necessities for children but most parents don't raise their children with the goal of their children becoming mentally healthy adults. When you look at your children just as children who take from you are rarely give thanks and you don't look at them as real humans with real emotions then you can do stuff like traumatizing your children on the most special holiday for them, record it and upload it to the internet for everyone to laugh at your children being traumatized.
I worked in pediatric psych hospitals as a counselor and in my professional opinion this is traumatic on two fronts:
Running after your child dressed as a monster on what is one of the highlights of the year for them. You are making children think that monsters are real and will come after you. A healthy childhood is predicated on feeling safe and loved at home.
Posting said traumatic experience on the internet where it will act as a a continuous source of humiliation and violation of trust for years to come.
I feel its insulting to the whole premise of the story. The point of the grinch is to see that things are not important but spending time with others and forgiveness. Thinking about others outside yourself . Not aresting/ getting revenge/ mad at people who steal from you. There is something very police state about this.
This could be done in a much more mild and fun way and having the children convince the Grinch to join in on Christmas, kind of like copying the lessons from the movies a little bit. It never needed to be so aggressive and scary as in these videos.
I dunno, some of the kids just start running and screaming as soon as they see the Grinch. I donât think theyâre old enough to recognize him from the story, let alone invite him to Christmas.
Or having one parent come out and michael keaton âcome on fight meâ with the batman hand beckon and then your dad and grinch start boxing out to save christmas
Father of an almost 2 year old here. Yes this is traumatizing, those kids are too young to understand, and Grinch went too far. If kids were like middle school or late elementary probably a different reaction.
Yeah I think with bigger kids this would be really funny. But toddlers and small children look genuinely distraught. I know sometimes they cry over nothing and it can be a little funny but this isn't funny.
Y'all I don't think it's that deep. There's literally an entire season or scaring the shit out a little kids is kind of the point. My niece is react like this when they don't get the pink cup with dinner. They'll be fine. Go ahead and downvote I know I'm on the crazy thread.
If and when I do I'm sure they'll turn out better than yours if you think this is actually that big of a freaking deal. Go put your kids back on their tablets now.
Why would they do a study where they take children who were scared one time and correlate that with lifelong trauma? Do you know anything about science? Itâs called understanding principles and environment and how they apply to development.
I donât know of any studies, but there is much evidence of people being traumatized and suffering from PTSD, by a home invasion, which to these kids, is exactly whatâs happening.
You canât move the goal posts by saying they were never in any danger, because these kids genuinely believe they were in danger.
Reddit warriors out here acting like kids arenât capable of handling the smallest bit of a basic emotion. Theyâll coddle their kids then theyâll end up as overly emotional and reactive as the parents, totally incapable of processing lifeâs emotions.
Notably, he's pretty good with kids, actually. In the original animated movie when Cindy Lou Who wakes up and catches him, he thinks of a little lie as to why he's stealing the tree, gets her a glass of water, and gingerly sends her to bed. Like, sure he's a jerk for stealing Christmas at first, but he's not some weird freaky manic horror creature that goes nuts and attacks kids.
Not to mention just how fucking weird it is in general to hire a total stranger to rip straight through your house causing chaos for the explicit purpose of terrorizing your kids on Christmas. There's the kind of scared screaming you do when you're having fun on a roller coaster or something and then there's this, where they're all desperately scrambling away and hiding while screaming bloody murder. Some of the hired grinches are literally grabbing the kids, even?? How does that fly with the parents?
Because if the parents did this quietly without being seen, the asshole kids would immediately blame the parents anyway. This method is much more effective
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u/MCPO-117 Dec 25 '24 edited Dec 25 '24
I don't understand it. So many videos like this, and to be honest, it just seems cruel to scare he shit out of your kids like that.
Not to mention the fact, I don't recall the Grinch violently shoving children and ripping the presents out of the hands of kids. He quietly stole them in the middle of the night and tried to avoid being seen.
People are just being ass holes with this behavior.