Opinion: Suffering Kids Are Not Funny

You need professional help. If somehting that small that happened to you over 40 years ago ruined your birthday, you have much bigger problems than that. Get some help will ya!

What are your parents like! I bet your mum wouldn't like being held down and having her hairy mustash photographed and shown to all and sundry or your Dad's ingrown toe nail plastered on the wall..honestly..this is what happens when people arn't living in the moment. If something sad bad or painful is happening to someone, or they are just not happy, don't photograph them, help them! Jesus Christ on a bike..

I am so with you on this.. I took one picture of my daughter when she used to out in a terrible rash which by the time I get her to the doctor it's gone! The nurses used to think I make it up and that's why I took the picture. My daughter herself didn't see the picture until she was 12, 7 years later. The rash was from allergic reaction to Bath and Body Works products which we've used since she was two. We had a variety of scented products which she was allergic to some of them. She didn't have your reaction to her picture because she didn't see herself in the mirror before I took the picture.

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I have those kinds of pictures of me covered in over 500 ant bites (that's where mom gave up counting and that was toes to waist) and swollen up like the Stay Puft marshmallow man when I was 5 and I fell in an ant hill as tall as me. Pics that include the bites on my rear end... I'm not scarred b/c of the pics. Then again, my parents wouldn't pull them out unless I said it was cool... But I guess my mom and dad give a crap about my opinions and my friends would know well enough not to put those pics in a montage of my life unless I was cool with it in the first place. Unfortunately, this is one of those things you need to let go. The pics are there, you can't do anything about that but move on. If this is just a small example of crap your parents have always pulled, maybe just let them go. If this is really the only negative you can come up with, forgive and move on.... and ask your mom to give you those pictures so you can destroy them. Not sure why parents feel the need to take those pics (my mom says it was to show just how bad it was... I guess proof for story time?) but it happens and it's just part of growing up, unfortunately... Our parents are meant to embarrass us, just as we are meant to embarrass them. Please try to remember the GOOD about your birthday and forget this part. These kinds of things can only ruin your day if you let them. Next time it's brought up, put your own spin on how horrible mom and dad were to be taking pictures while you're sitting there itching and begging for an oatmeal bath or calamine lotion and they ignored you... Turn it around on them and maybe they'll see the error of their ways?

Hey yall ..... First Michelle W.. I could not agree with you more on these so called comments that have nothing to do with the topic but keep getting on here anyway! Seems like whom ever is in charge of the site or whatever, Need to try a little harder to keep these ads off here cause I know a few people that will not even come and read an article on here let alone comment on one cause of these things!!!! Ok Now..... Texas River Rat I am so sorry that your parents did that to you! I know how that must have been embarrassing to you Please know that I am sure unless you told them what had happened before they started planning the party that your friends didnt know and proably wish now that they had not used that one....I know first hand what it feels like to be a child and be humiliated and had things done/said to them by your parent that was TOTALLY NOT FUNNY AND DOWN RIGHT CRUEL!! And I believe that for me or anyone else to tell you to get over it is wrong I wonder if these people could go back and think about anything that has happened in their life that was harmful( maybe not to others but to them) and were told to get over it how did they feel? People PLEASE remember that we all are human and take and feel things totally differently! What may be funny ( to others isnt to some I looked at the Video and although the little boy was ADORABLE NOTHING was funny to me! Maybe these parents whom I am sure adore this child will look at this as a lesson to them as well as the Boy.... Hope that yall have A HAPPY AND BLESSED NEW YEAR!!!

I have taken pictures of my children (who are now grown) simply to record history. They were the only recipients of the pictures. I think it is awful that these children understand they are being made fun of. Perhaps if the person shooting the footage did so unknown, it would have been cute. I, too, did not bother to watch the video. People think I'm weird when I tell them I can't watch America's Funniest Videos when they show so many people getting hurt accidentally. How is that funny?

Maybe you should watch the video before making comments, he really isn't suffering at all, and doesn't seem to be embarressed at all by his mom video taping him.

I agree, get over the hurt. Besides, you should have watched the video, it was adorable and unless you don't have kids of your own you can't say your child has never done something like that. To all that say we are mocking their pain, puhleez! there is a lot worse suffering in this world by parents actually abusing their innocent children.

Whaaaaaa! Get a life you sissy! People like you, that go around proclaiming victim hood their entire lives over something as stupid as poison ivy are what is wrong with society today. I am highly allergic to poison ivy as well, and had to go to enrollment at a new school in a small town as a 7th grader with stripes of it all over me, including my face. Did it suck? Yes. Am I scarred for life? NO! Good lord people, get a grip, grow the hell up, and quit flippin' whining!!!!

get a grip. sorry you had poison ivy as a child, but thats what being a kid is all about. this little boy was not being tortured. he wasnt on fire. he was being a typical 2 year old boy climbing up and over things. lets not call dss,..i think he'll be okay

You are sick. Watch the video, dummy. The child wasn't in any danger...don't compare it to a dangerous situation. He was telling stories and explaining how he got there. Not something a child does when he's in dire straits. Geez...get a life.

You should reserve judgement and watch the video. I think the commentary is totally off-base here. I have seen "funniest videos" where kids are actually in danger of getting hurt.... that's just not funny. This video is not humiliating and the child is not in danger. It seems obvious that the child was probably warned about not climbing behind the couch, as it seems he knew he was not supposed to. The parents seem to be simply showing the child the consequence of his actions. He is not hurt or in danger, but children also need to understand that actions have consequences, and in this society parents are all too quick to rush to save them to avoid all and any discomfort. It's why people grow up and can't "deal" with any type of distress without alcohol, pills, and other crutches. He thanked his parents because he knew they were there for him in the end, but they also taught him a lesson to be responsible for his actions.

I am also sorry your parents made you feel badly by taking pictures of your poison ivy. I'm sure you probably needed years of therapy! However, this child was not in any pain, not itching, not even crying...no real tears! Have you ever thought, your experience may have made you stronger or more sympithetic to someone else...who is truly abused. First, you need to know the difference. I mean really abused. I've worked with children who were abused. Believe me, the parents had no intentions of taking pictures, throwing them a party or even caring to fix and/or heal the abuse they inflicted! Get over it...forgive them and move on! The child in this video was clearly unharmed and will, no doubt, have a good laugh at this video in years to come.

OH GET A GRIP LADY. THE BOY WAS NOT HURT IN ANYWAY. I BET THAT YOU SO DEEP IN YOUR OWN MISERABLE CRAPPY LIFE THAT YOU NEED TO FIND SOMETHING WRONG WITH EVERYTHING? JEEZE, THE BOY WAS FINE. THEY WERE TRYING TO TEACH HIM SOMETHING.

Amen to this!! I am an Easrly Education specialist and can tell you that becoming desensitized to others pain was because someone desensitized you when you were too young to even remember. It is called "child abuse" and those who don't realize it as "child abuse" 9 times out of 10 have are also abusive. Sad but true. Anyone who is in pain, scorned, shamed, humiliated, or who has a low-self esteem and is teased, laughed at, or given negative attention from another is being abused. However, a way to handle the negative and make it a positive would be to acknowledge the pain that someone is going through and give them a positive reinforcement such as simply saying- "I'm sorry you hurt, but later we just might laugh about it."

this kid is hardly suffering
get something real to write about people

Please find a little humor in the situation. The author suggests that an adult is pinned beneath a car and firefighters video it and laugh at the hapless victim. Well the adult probably did not crawl under the car looking for toys and if he/she was rescued they would probably never do it again. LMAO hardly but this child was never in any danger and his parents did rescue him so it was cute to me. With almost any device capable of making these videos now it should hardly be a surprise that these movies are showing up. Causing a child permanent harm by showing them in an embarrasing situation is NOT what I am talking about. I think all of us carry a few scars from traumatic childhood events but those parents were not gleefully abusing that child. They were giving him a valuable learning experience. If we protect our children to the point that they are not prepared for the outside world we will be raising a generation of wimps and idiots. I don not advocate cruelty but at the same time every child learns from his or her mistakes. Let them make them and if it is cute or harmlessly funny I don't mind watching it.

I agree w/ you. That is exactly what I was thinking while reading the article. I would not put it on the internet either. You should watch the video, however, because this child is very cute and hilarious. The moment he starts freaking a little, they get him out, but he doesn't really freak out but for a moment.