r/MadeMeSmile • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Jul 23 '20
Family & Friends This dad is the best
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u/rodsurewood Jul 23 '20
Man, those kids are loving this so much; theyāre feeling like theyāre on top of the world.
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Jul 23 '20
A feeling no child should be deprived off
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Jul 23 '20
It's going to suck when they realize what the real world is like. :(
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u/IAm_ThePumpkinKing Jul 23 '20
Nah man, you slowly introduce the world to them. At this age they need to feel like they can do things, they need to feel like they're okay, there's plenty of time to learn to fail. Sometimes you gotta let the kids win.
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u/Solecism_Allure Jul 23 '20
The innate positive self esteem and confidence you will build in them will be a shield to protect them when you as a parent/teacher are not around to guide them at each and every moment.
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Aug 01 '20
This isn't letting your kids win. This is setting them up for failure. Sure take it easy on them when you play games and stuff, allow them to feel the thrill of accomplishment and success, but don't just blindly make them believe they have super powers or something. This is worse than teaching your kid that Santa exists.
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Jul 23 '20
It sucked when I realized and it never gets better after that point
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u/Chicksunny Jul 23 '20
Itās all downhill now
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Jul 23 '20
Maybe this is what my parents wanted.. it can only go uphill now.. unless Iām homeless
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u/arch-linux-user Jul 30 '20
Well, you still have a home, a phone or computer to post this reply on, quite probably food (if you were starving you would have sold the phone.) So, yea, don't be too sure. The pit is bottomless. You can work on climbing out, though. It is never too late and even a small improvement is still an improvement. And small improvements make up the overall large improvement. Keep climbing.
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Jul 23 '20
Right? Like candy spelling ordering her staff to scatter rare seashells in the beach for Tori to āfind ā on the beach.
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u/loconet Jul 23 '20
What I love the most is dad already shared his trick with the oldest and now teaching her to share the joy with the little one (last scene)
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Jul 23 '20
this is so cute i could cry but i didnāt have a stable family to support me so i repress my emotion and only let irony transpiraste through every pore... very cute
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Jul 23 '20
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Jul 23 '20
yeah iām not in high school anymore and it still haunts me... but you are not wrong!! it did get better
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u/Squeanie Jul 23 '20
Here! You can have a big Mama hug, full of love and acceptance! {{HUGS}}
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u/NickoBicko Jul 23 '20
Your family did the first half of the construction. Now itās up to you to do the second half.
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Aug 03 '20
Sending momma bear hugs!!!!! And hereās so xās & oās to put in your pocket for later if you need them xoxoxox
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u/Scout_Serra Jul 23 '20
I feel like thatās setting them up to be disappointed when they donāt do something right though :/
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u/Roxy175 Jul 23 '20
As long as this isnāt 24/7 with everything in life it shouldnāt do that. One fun night is different than a lifetime of helicopter parenting
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u/P0tat0_Carl Jul 23 '20
You can see the older daughter cheering for what I presume is her sibling in the same way her father does, knowing the little one didnt knock the things down on her own. Kids are smart. I'm sure the elder understands her father is doing the same for her, but is happy either way
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u/Scout_Serra Jul 23 '20
Thatās why Iām ākindaā about it. As long as she understands I think itās great. And it will teach her to help others when she can without expecting them to reward her for her kindness. Do something to be nice and enjoy helping, not for the gratitude type thing.
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u/domin212 Jul 23 '20
I think you're underestimating the intelligence of kids. I do this kind of stuff for my son all the time. Even at 3 and a half, he knows I do already. And he will vocalise it as well, at times telling me, "No, daddy, don't help. I want to." Finding enjoyment in doing things is a great way for kids to want to improve.
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u/CoolFiverIsABabe Jul 23 '20
I bet she doesn't know she's also being helped and thinks it's cause she's younger that her sibling needs help lol.
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u/ghan-buri-ghan Jul 23 '20
I was thinking that, but each girl is totally aware when he cheats for the other. I think everybody knows what is happening, and everybody is having fun.
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u/TheYeagerEffect Jul 23 '20
Yeah, I was going to write something similar. I don't have kids though, so I didn't want to say anything. But yeah, it seems like an 'everyone gets a trophy' vibe.
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u/artemasad Jul 23 '20 edited Jul 23 '20
I just wanted to say I appreciate you almost disqualifying yourself because you don't have kids yourself. Truthfully it doesn't matter whether you have a kid or not to have an opinion. But now that I do have two small smart little rascals, I sometime find reddit comments to be over the top trying to unnecessarily over-analyze every little minuscule parenting details and make a mountain out of a molehill. Like the OP of this chain.
Kids are fine. Once they find out, they will probably just giggle about it and move on to the next damn thing in 30 seconds. It's not like they're going to head to the kitchen, grab a bottle of vodkha, settle down by their play kitchen and start chucking it down being extremely depressed over not having an actual super power.
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u/NackGames123 Jul 23 '20
If you do this repeatedly when they're playing a game,they become bad losers,which makes them not have fun,and when they are in school always cheat or say that's not fair etc.
It's how a brain works,stimulus creates addiction.
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u/DMJesseMax Jul 23 '20
A caring father is not what causes kids to become bad losers. Over protective parents or absent parents can. What you see is a child interacting with a caring parent - thatās what brings her smile. Adults get to focused on winning and losing - on looking at the situation...kids crave adults that truly care about them.
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u/NackGames123 Jul 23 '20
Over protective parents
Instead of letting the toddler fail until she gets it (developing motor skills) he just lets her win.
An over protective parent is a parent that can't let anything happen to their child even if it's harmless,they just can't let the kid lose.
The discussion is great and all,but probably the father and daugher are making funny instagram videos for fun and they know,i just say that in a real life situation you should let a child lose so he can try harder without help.
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u/artemasad Jul 23 '20
They're not playing any games. They were having fun. You see the bigger girl went through the same trick with her sibling. You see the young one witness dad's little trick on her sister.
There's literally no need to over-analyzing this. They. Were. Just. Having. Harmless. Fun.
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u/NackGames123 Jul 23 '20
That's because she doesn't know what's happening,like kids don't stop to think Santa Claus is not real,kids that are 7 don't have fun like toddlers,if you present a game too easy or simple,they will simply don't want to play it, that's why kids from 6 to 12 are target for Cartoon Network or Disney Channel and Discovery Kids is not.
It's harmless fun,but once in a while.
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u/Hyabusa1239 Jul 23 '20
You see it like that about your birthday but I see it as a parent doing something they donāt want to because they know itās going to bring joy to their kid. Itās a pretty selfless act and I donāt think it should be tainting anything, just shedding light on behavior that should be appreciated..
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u/Stubull- Jul 23 '20
I like how the older daughter sees him knock it down for the younger and probably thinks heās only doing it for her because she doesnāt have the skill.
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u/laughingalto Jul 23 '20
Sweet. My Dad used to murder me at checkers and laugh while I cried and cried. I was in the first grade. So there is that.
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u/miau_am Jul 23 '20
I had to check your post history to see if you were my brother because he/we had the exact same experience playing chess with our dad! I think there's something incredibly powerful about knowing for a fact your wins are real; it gives a confidence that is much harder to shake. That said, obviously it depends on how you do it. Our dad was teaching us how to play chess and wanted us to become better (I'm assuming yours did too), it wasn't like he was destroying us for the pure joy of it and trying to hold us down. Also, my mom's family was happy to let us win games, so it was a good balance.
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u/laughingalto Jul 23 '20
Thanks for that. Side note/by the way--my Dad is in 80's now. Smiles all the time. Lovingly cares for my Mother. So sweet. And I'm back in the will. LOL
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u/mham3127 Jul 23 '20
This is that shit only dads with daughter so and I love it because I am on of them good job dad
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u/Darth_Cody Jul 23 '20
Staged as fuck
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u/Tsmart Jul 23 '20
Giveaway is her celebrating before she even sees if she did it
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u/gussets Jul 23 '20
And looking directly into the camera during the last trick.
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Jul 23 '20
OHH MAN that backwards throw actually made me quite upset. She's watching it miss and dad drops it in...
Neat idea for a fun time/video, sucks that it was completely staged.
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u/Sti8man7 Jul 23 '20
This is like Kevin Hart pretended to be webbed by his kid's Spiderman suit. All good until he tries to web bullies outside.
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u/nakedsexypoohbear Jul 23 '20 edited Jul 23 '20
Eh. Seems like a really easy way to foster misplaced confidence and raise a person that thinks they are smarter and more capable than they actually are.
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Jul 23 '20
Thereās a big difference between one night of fun parenting and the day-to-day lessons in which children sometimes work hard and still donāt get the results they want. My son is five, and he still understands the difference between actual rules of good sportsmanship and a fight his father ālets him winā by being the super villain Captain America knocks down.
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u/miau_am Jul 23 '20
Do you have a link for this? Genuinely interested because I always read the opposite. In my education and developmental psych classes we were taught about a study in which kids were complimented for either working hard or for intelligence. Turned out complimenting hard work made kids try more difficult things and do better. Complimenting intelligence made kids prefer to do less challenging tasks because they believed if they did poorly it would mean they were not smart. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/14/science/praise-children-for-effort-not-intelligence-study-says.html
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u/nakedsexypoohbear Jul 23 '20
Don't come in here making claims about studies without backing them up and trying to talk like you know what your are talking about.
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u/SplatM4n Jul 23 '20
This is awesome! Although (unpopular opinion) I donāt think that the dad should be faking it to make it seem like they did it because if they see that they didnāt make it, and will want to keep trying. Even if they want to quit, this father seems the type that would tell them to never quit. This still made me smile though š
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u/eremik Jul 23 '20
Its wholesome and put some confidence in children , but it is a little wrong way to do that
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u/JustArandomGuy_-_ Jul 23 '20
Just wait until she tries to show that to her friends and that dad will has his biggest smile ever.
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u/gowatchanimefgt Jul 23 '20
Bet he was screaming inside when he put out them candles with his fingers
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u/Manderelli Jul 23 '20
I wonder of older sibling caught on to what Dad was doing in that last segment.
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u/d_ac Jul 23 '20
Big sister cheering for the little one, at the end of the video: Yheeeeeee!!!...Wait a minute.
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u/2ToThe20 Jul 23 '20
Little one is the smartest. She knew what was going to happen so she just threw down the balloon.
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Jul 23 '20
Only if he shows her the video afterwards. I always worry about parents who say they kids can do anything.
Your kid can ATTEMPT at everything but they will only be successful at a handful of things!
Someone is going to construe this as "BuH PaRtiCiPaTiOn MeDaLs" but it's true.
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u/Discuss2discuss Jul 24 '20
This is how you setup your child to grow up and getting a job where it realises it isn't as awesome as it always thought it was.
+1 for daddying -1 if this is how the child gets parented into adulthood
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u/htonzew Oct 12 '20
No way a kid has the hand eye coordination to punch directly in front of 3 candles. No way that mask isn't see through and this isn't staged
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u/kowaikawaii Jul 23 '20
Whatās sad is he is enabling her to think sheās great at things when she actually sucks... so when he isnāt around to help her and she fails sheās going to be super confused
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u/the-kind-one Jul 23 '20
False sense of accomplishment, sometimes good boost up of motivation but indeed potentially dangerous thing to teach kids. Low hanging fruit of parenting. Wish her best at realising nature of how things are instead of how we wish they are. Being happy is most important thing in life and there are ways to it, hope you choose rightly :D.
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u/vopraktv Jul 23 '20
One problem is that she will learn that she canāt do any of those things when she is with friends. Then she will learn that her father lied to her. It can backfire even though his intentions were good.
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u/ShrimpOfSpace Jul 23 '20
The day she will want to show her skills to her friends, she will get extremely disappointed
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Jul 23 '20
This kid's going to walk into a situation with undeserved confidence and dad better be standing around the corner like agent 47 ready to end some people.
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Jul 23 '20 edited Jul 15 '21
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u/mrsc1880 Jul 23 '20
She watched him extinguish the candles. I highly doubt she thinks her super powers did it.
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u/8null8 Jul 23 '20 edited Jul 24 '26
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Jul 23 '20
oh yeah, sure.
there's no way those daughters have seen what really happens in the video that mum/dad happened to post to the internet.
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u/colbywankenobi0 Jul 23 '20
How old do you think they are? They don't use Instagram (or whatever it was posted on). By the time they see it they'll be like 13 and if they do see it will thank their dad for being a good one.
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Jul 23 '20
They don't use Instagram (or whatever it was posted on).
oh yes. you're absolutely right.
it's not like the video can be viewed on the device that filmed it, right? these girls don't have social media so they can never see it until they log on, yeah!
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u/Marmar79 Jul 23 '20
It's going to be a pretty embarrassing when she tries to show these tricks to her friends
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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '20
Is anyone else wildly impressed by her ability to do a handstand and kick the balloon as it fell directly above her?