Post by missmaddie on Aug 25, 2014 19:42:16 GMT -5
I've seen lots with families lined up in a row, and little sand buckets for the under 5 crowd who dumped it on themselves, but there was no visible ice in the videos, and they didn't freak out, so I am assuming it was more temperate. I would side-eye actual ice for sure.
i saw someone do it to their 2 year old when she was challenged by her uncle. it was a small bowl of water with 1-2 ice cubes total, and she STILL freaked out and looked super-betrayed and angry.
i don't have a problem with kids hanging out near mom and dad while *they* are doing it, but to dump water on your young kid on purpose? ugh.
Ugh, one of mine did that this week as well. She took the video down so I'm wondering if she got flamed for it. The poor kid was spinning circles in the front yard and the dad snuck up from behind...pretty mean IMO.
It's not as bad if the kid dumps it himself I guess. At least they are in control. But mom doing it and kid screaming seems so wrong.
Any chance the kid was down to do it and then 'screamed' because they didn't really get that it meant cold water and they were surprised?
It doesn't sound like she did it to him unexpectedly if he was standing there with her.
I dunno, my nephews have begged to do 'grown up' stuff, like canoeing and gotten scared once they were doing it and started crying.
The kid knew. But even if I explain to my 4yo and she accepts, a giant bucket of ice water on her is just fucking wrong and will make her scream bloody murder. Kids have no concept of these things until they happen.
One of H's (adult) nephews liked a post that showed up in my feed today. It was a guy dumping water on a baby. This child was easily under a year old, and was not at all liking it. At least there wasn't any ice in the water, but a baby? Really?
My soon to be step son did it. He is 4.5 He kept asking if he could "do it again", so my future mother in law let him do it on her video too. I think he did it about 4 times and still asks when he can do it again.
He is still alive to ask about it. Granted, he really wanted to and it wasn't forced on him.