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When you cannot be safe in your own house or trust your own parents it really rocks your world.
This is a shameful trick to play on young children.
I regularly see such tantrums when shopping in the local supermarket when kids try to blackmail parents into buying candy before leaving the shop.
I suspect these kids would display the same overreaction if the story had been the dog had eaten the candy.
Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward
These little girls are sweet
Kids addicted to sugar: not good
Parents lying to their kids: not good
But how can else you discover what the reaction of your kid would be to the prospect of sugar deprivation without setting up a scenario where the loss of candy supply was a considered genuine by the child.?
I agree this is not a laughing matter.
I would have been ashamed if any of my children had over-reacted to the "The Sweets have gone crisis" and would not have posted the video to You Tube.
However these videos are important if we are going to understand how in 10~20 years time when these kids become teenagers or young adults, they may react to low glucose and poor glucose metabolism situations with aggression and violence.
The indications are there in some of these examples. We have to try to understand what we as a society are doing with the constant promotion of sugared cereals for kids
That would suck!
If you wanted to see how kids react to their missing candy then tell them it's missing, but all you got from this experiment was kids being betrayed and robbed by their parents and there is no child who wouldn't react badly to that.
Thank you for posting this clip. It was not only quite humorous, but also underscores a very depressing fact. The fact that the children were so distressed due to the prospect that their parents ate their candy, illustrates how much our children's palates are addicted to sweet substances. I have seen children cry less when a close relative has died. I personally experienced, just recently, the hold that candy has on a child's mind. At a birthday party for my 5 year old nephew, they had a Pinata there, which is basically a box, shaped like an animal, that children swing a stick at, in order to break open and inside candy falls out. The children swing at the Pinata while blind folded. It is basically a game played commonly in the United States and Mexico during birthdays. What I found interesting and disturbing is that while the blind folded child would swing at the Pinata, in order to break it open, as pieces of candy fell out, the rest of the children would rush towards the Pinata to pick up the candy, while the blind folded child was still swinging. In other words, these children demonstrated such a fixation with sugary candy, that they would risk a head injury to compete with for more of these "
Thank you for posting this clip. It was not only quite humorous, but also underscores a very depressing fact. The fact that the children were so distressed due to the prospect that their parents ate their candy, illustrates how much our children's palates are addicted to sweet substances. I have seen children cry less when a close relative has died. Their volatile reaction is what you would expect to see from a long time drug addict, who just found out that his supply of heroin or cocaine was stolen from him.
I personally experienced, just recently, the hold that candy has on a child's mind. At a birthday party for my 5 year old nephew, they had a Pinata there, which is basically a box, shaped like an animal, that children swing a stick at in order to break it open so that the candy that is inside the Pinata falls out. The children swing at the Pinata while blind folded. It is basically a game played commonly in the United States and Mexico during birthdays. What I found interesting and disturbing is that while the blind folded child would swing at the Pinata and pieces of candy fell out, the rest of the children would rush towards the Pinata to pick up the candy, while the blind folded child was still swinging. In other words, these children demonstrated such a fixation with sugary candy, that they would risk a head injury to compete with for more of these "treats". How sad is that?
When I watched this video, and I saw two obviously obese children cry about not having their candy, I thought to myself about how sad it is that their parents where so irresponsible as to let children, especially in their unhealthy condition, have candy in the first place. I know that sounds kind of harsh, but when children are this heavy at this stage in their life, when they should be at their leanest, they are being setup for a whole host of future bad habits and associated health complications. If I were a parent, I wouldn't allow my kids to participate in the accumulation of candy, even if it is a Halloween tradition. One can enjoy a holiday, without the deleterious dietary habits that go along with it. I would rather my kids face being outcasts for a short period of time, than inculcate them with bad dietary practices which can lead to greater problems down the road.
And it often has very long-lasting consequences. I understand what the video was trying to prove, but didn't any of these parents consider the ramifications of how this act will affect their relationship with their children for the rest of their lives? I hope they had long and thoughtful discussions with their children afterwards, not about the dangers of sugar-addiction, but about trust and betrayal. And it should include a heartfelt apology.
Here's a better way to teach your children to moderate their sugar intake and eat healthy: by setting an example in their diets and your own. I think that children are far more strongly influenced by what they see their parents DO than by what they hear their parents SAY. The best way to teach them good eating habits is to eat right. The best way to teach them to be trustworthy and dependable is to NOT do what they did in that video.
All we know is that they betrayed their children's trust and violated their sense of security. Any imagined conversation afterwards is just that, imagined.
This is their childhood and it's the only one they get, parents should be keeping that sacred and sacrosanct, not exploiting their trust for a good laugh on youtube.
It breaks my heart to see how little children mean to people.
This is an excerpt of an entertainment show, it's obvious that the show is cut for the most dramatic effect, it's not a documentary. It's clear that even if the parents have taped their post-prank resolution of the situation, it would have been cut for the show. So your "there's no evidence yada yada" shows only that you have a problem with assessing reality. Maybe, you should have needed these kind of pranks as a child, may be you would have grown some sense of humour.
And don't get me started on your "It breaks my heart to see how little children mean to people.", overprotecting children is imo a worse form of abuse. Children do need to be confronted to the harsh reality of the world, progressively and competently. Letting them in a la-la-land cocoon until they are grown-up, is the breeding ground for egotistical psychos as too many are already.
Right. Parents, steal from, lie to, and betray your children's trust before the rest of the nasty world does!! It'll be so much better coming from you.
"It bothers me a lot when people think children are retarded, porcelaine puppets."
It bothers me when people think it's ok to behave any way they like towards children, because, after all, they're not fragile or worse, "just kids. They'll get over it." No, kids are certainly not fragile; childred endure far more pranks and humiliation (and pain) because "it's all in good fun" or "you're too thin-skinned" or __________. And I never said they were "retarded" (not nice, btw). Far from it. If they were, they wouldn't have cared so much that those closest to them betrayed their trust.
Do you also believe it's ok for parents to tease children about their weight, or not-so-perfect noses, or big feet, or whatever else people find funny? After all, that's the world we live in. Let's teach them to expect it, right? It's one thing to get this junk from outside the home. It's an entirely different ballgame when it's done by you family members.
Tragic.