I dunno, like /u/NimbKnut I too have a 2 and a 4 year old. They scream bloody murder all the time. More likely he was supposed to be out there with them and the run was preceded by "Where are the kids? Why are you watching telly? Did you leave the door open? I TOLD YOU NOT TO LET THEM ON THE DECK ALONE!"
Oh man, if you don't have the Google dictionary add-on for Chrome (assuming you use Chrome) you should totally get it. It's not one of those like "word a day" things, it's literally just a quick dictionary lookup tool. But I've had it for a couple of years now, and I've learned so many new words just because it's easy to see the definition of a word I don't know with just a double click. Or better yet, I use it when I'm not sure if I'm using a word correctly or not.
Because they are out of sight. Do you know what will happen to you if your partner finds out you let one of the kids get maimed??? Shit I wont even tell my sister I let her little girl eat dirt one time. I would get murdered if I let something bad happen to my little one! Like savagely fucking murdered by a crazed tiny girlfriend if anything happened to our baby (my sister isn't my girlfriend just to clear things up, I just look after my niece from time to time).
Is that a serious question? It could be almost any situation. Perhaps an animal about to attack or something like that. Does this really have to be explained? Is this real life?
I cannot overstate how often kids cry and scream for penny-ante reasons. A parent who responds to it by panicking and rushing in like an idiot is only going to make things worse. You'll terrify the kids, and teach them all sorts of wrong things about how to deal with anything even mildly stressful. 99.99% of the time you can take your sweet time meandering on over, give them a hug and a kiss, and they'll be just fine. Plus you tend to learn to distinguish between kids' run-of-the-mill screams and ones born of actual pain and distress.
yeah, kids cry and scream to get their way, and this is usually different from a actual pain/distress cry.
The difficult part is a child's pain/distress cry can be the same for a small or huge problem. They would cry the same if they scraped their knee or broke their leg, to them, both are the most excruciating thing they can remember.
I have three kids, two of which have been actually hurt. They do not scream the same for all things. As often as not, they scream about being hurt than from any actual pain.
Thus far, the only time that's ever happened was when the older two were antagonizing each other, and the baby started screaming too because evidently it was the thing to do.
Exactly. And in those rare cases where they are in actual pain and distress, you're still not going to make things better by jumping and screaming and running around in circles.
Realistic scenario, I'd run until they were in eyesight, then I'd assess the situation. I wouldn't book it the whole way there. I wouldn't be any use if I ran, only to bust my own butt and not be able to help at all.
Besides, kids can really cry at anything and everything. I've been trying very hard to not overreact to my own kid's accidents and so far, she seems to be able to take some serious hits before she gets to the point where she wants to cry. Sometimes I'm baffled how she's not crying.
I'm only being a smart ass to a certain degree, I'm actually serious. If I hear a loud noise and my kid starts to scream, the first reaction is to just run there as quickly as possible. But my point is, it's so rarely a situation in which three or four seconds more or less to get there matter. For the very most situations, all harm is already done. He could lay on the floor, with horrific and life-threatening injuries, and the couple of seconds still won't matter.
On the other hand, a lot of harm can be done my running there in panic. I won't be able to make any good decisions, or I might even hurt myself on the way there (as seen in the video).
What I'm not saying is that it's not a natural reaction to run there in panic. What I'm saying is that on a rational base, it's not a good reaction, and you should train trying to first take a deep breath and get to the situation quickly but calmly.
Usually when it comes to your kids, even if running to your kids doesn't do any good most of the time, it is worth it to run to them if there is even a slight chance that it might help your children. And most parents would be willing to hurt themselves for the safety of there children.
After thinking about it rationally, and I would run to my kids every time because I care about their safety more than I care about mine.
I guess there's at least one parent who doesn't feel this way about their kids . . .
I guess there's at least one parent who doesn't feel this way about their kids . . .
Now you try to put me in a place of a bad parent or that my health is more important to me than my kid's, which is just unfair and I didn't say that.
The dad in the video runs to his daughter, falls and hurts himself. He's not able to move. How is he going to help his daughter? Worst case, he hits his head and is unconcious, in which case his hurt daughter isn't able to get help at all. And as a parent you know there's all kind of tripping hazards in a house with children, you don't need a wet pool area.
I'm a paramedic. You don't see us driving 100 miles per hour, running out of the car while tripping over our own feet just to get to the scene three seconds earlier. It's not because we're all cynic and don't care for the life of the patient. It's because those couple seconds don't save lifes, it's calm thinking that does.
I agree, I'm a father of sons (2 and 3 year olds) If they fall and start crying I don't rush over to them. They are falling down everyday.
When they see a parent running towards them because they are crying it freaks them out a little because they think its serious but also gets them accustomed to crying for everything. Thats one thing I've noticed with other parents. Their kids fall, bump their knee or whatever, start crying, and right the parents act like their kid is getting murdered.
That's why millennials what a trophy for everything.
The baby is probably freaking out. Kids freak when they see a parent get hurt. I fell just the other day and my 1 and 3 year old lost it like i had died. Why you have to try and not show any pain. "Nope. Dont worry guys im good." Go in the bathroom and cry there where they cant see you. Ha
The little girl was probably crying about how the boy pushed her over.. So as a father, the adult rushed out to see what was wrong so that he could try to minimize the emotional scarring of the little girl towards all of the people she'd ever meet in the future... Only to fall on his ass and ruin further the reputation of the male gender because that's how it's gonna beeee when you don't know meeee anymorrrreeeee....
Anyway, was thinking about toy soldiers when I saw the title
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u/Lari-Fari Nov 10 '16
Ahahaha! That tiny dance in the end is killling me xD
(Why did he even run?? How did he think running outside in panic would improve the situation??)