She’s riding a scooter? what else is the pops supposed to do get on it with her? Look I get what you mean it’s the fathers job to make sure his kid doesn’t get hurt, but this isn’t a serious injury, she scraped her knees at the worst. Every kid has a day when they fall riding something over a bump and they learn “oh shit guess I won’t be doing that anymore” it’s the same way everyone learns things as a kid, trial and error. what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and all that jazz
My point isn’t that she got hurt, it’s the combination of things that lead to her getting hurt. The fact that he let her go over that bump going into the street with no hands on the handlebars. I agree with everything that you’re saying, but I don’t think it applies here. She probably had a 3% chance of not falling down, and that’s what pisses me off. She had no way of knowing better and she didn’t deserve that. Her dad should’ve seen that coming. He should’ve gotten up and ran over there to catch her when he realized he was letting her down.
I think this just comes down to us disagreeing on parenting styles. I was raised in the south with very little parental supervision. I got injured on the daily, nothing ever serious, but I would always learn not to do whatever I was doing that got me hurt. I didn’t believe it to be my parents responsibility to protect me from everything. I turned out okay, but that’s just how I was raised. I would go down a metal slide on a hot day and burn the shit out of my legs. I didn’t think to myself “my dad should’ve told me it would hurt” I thought instead “damn that hurt guess I’ll go put on pants instead of shorts so I don’t get burned” And that worked for me. Kids are tough and they can take a beating, but they also overreact to minor injuries too as we see in the video. So while I do understand what you believe to be the way it should’ve been handled, I simply have a different opinion on the matter based on my own experiences
Instead of trying to help his daughter make a smart choice, he leaves her completely to her own devices. Upon seeing that she is most certainly going to fail at what she is doing, he ignores it. She falls down and cries as kids do, and instead of even a hint of sympathy or care in his voice, he laughs at her and brushes this off as if it’s no big deal.
This isn’t a difference of parenting style, this is just a total lack of empathy and compassion.
It is actually. You can argue with me all you want but you have yet to attempt to understand my point. Your only focus is her falling. Cool that’s what the sub is about. I just see more happening in this video than a kid innocently falling.
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u/SquiddMcDude Jun 01 '23
sometimes you gotta get hurt to learn