Worst Parents of the Decade?
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Emma Sarran
Emma Sarran is from Chicago, IL where she grew up loving Michael Jordan, lakeshore beaches, and annual snow days. She is a self-diagnosed fashion addict and is always on the search for her next amazing find. She has written for Seventeen, TheKnot.com, and Country Home, among others, and thrilled to be contributing to Babble.
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Some of these are so very hard to watch . . .
Oh… the X-Box “joke” truly is heartbreaking. How could they possibly think there was humor in that?
Of the arcade game “rip off,” I say turnabout is fair play. Chuck E. Cheese makes kids pay ten tickets just for a crummy piece of candy or cheap plastic ring! “Winning” tickets only for the right to spend them on obscenely overpriced junk is a dubious lesson for kids too. I tell my kids they can use the quarter to enjoy a game, or buy that same piece of ten-ticket candy at the corner store for the same quarter. “buying” the candy with tickets, on the other hand, costs ten times as much.
You guys are pretty prude and judgmental if you really think the “Fire truck” video qualifies those parents for “worst of the decade.” Get a sense of humor!
The Xbox one is SO CRUEL.
So you can’t afford an XBox. But choosing not to rub that fact in is free. Poor kid! Why torture him just because he wanted a toy? SO SAD! Yet they still found it “funny” enough to post to youtube.
The majority of these videos don’t even come close to qualifying for “worst parent of the decade” — many are maybe just foolish yet harmless. The guy who jumps off a swing seems like a pretty fun dad to me! But XBox, I’ll admit, is in a class by itself.
The football one looked like an accident, as did the one of the boy learning to walk. If accidents resulting in hurt kids=bad parents, then I guess I’m one of the worst parents of the decade.
When my son was a baby I accidentally bonked his head on the door frame when walking room to room…and many other things like that have happened. Any parent would be lying if they’ve never done anything silly like that.
The Xbox one was cruel though.
And the kid in the firetruck one didn’t even know what he was saying.
PRUDES!
Having little accidents with kids is normal, laughing at their faces isn’t.
After watching these videos you become little closer to understand masacres like Columbine and the such.
Really really painful and cruel what they did to that poor little boy expecting an XBOX. You really have to be a bad person to do something like that.
Don’t be surprised when he’ll grow up and try to kill his parents..
Very sad after watching all this!
Some people shouldn’t be permitted to procreate. Seriously.
these are kind of painful to watch. especially the xbox one. watching that kids face as he realizes that not only should he not hope for nice things, or trust his family, but apparently they all think it’s hilarious that he would ever believe in them is just heartbreaking. i want to hug that kid and punch his mom in the ovaries. thanks for bumming me out Babble.
The Xbox one makes me want to buy an Xbox for the kid and also a baseball bat so he can hit his parents in the shins with it. WTF is wrong with some people?
When my sister’s friend was about 8, he and his dad were playing catch and his dad told him if they could make 100 catches without dropping the ball, he’d take them all to Disneyland. At 99, “Dad” threw the ball on the ground and said “oops.” I bet if Youtube had existed back then he would have filmed it and put it on Youtube. Assholes have always existed, only now they can film their exploits for all to enjoy.
Is it wrong to die laughing at the parents freaking out their kids?
Shame on you Babble. You have no doubt saddened many who glanced at the title or watched the video. the original post on youtube explains that the boy got his xbox. his mom just switched out presents because she saw him peaking the night before.
Pretty sure it’s still cruel.
@anonymous–I wholeheartedly agree. If that’s even the case, it’s definitely still cruel.
Babble – this post is a mark of a journalism failure. I’m disgusted that these videos have been even reposted to this website. Shame on you, Emma Saran. Come up with better blogposts instead of stooping to this.
@disgusted. You have it wrong. Shame on these PARENTS!
What is this? Seriously. If this is what qualifies you to be the worse parent of the decade I’m surprised the government hasn’t sterilized us all yet. Accidentally hitting your kid in a face with a football and running towards him immediately to check on him? SHAME! Laughing while your son drinks from the toilet bowl while still telling him not to do it? Someone call CPS! Not freaking out every time your toddler bumps into a table or falls down? Oh the humanity! Especially in number eleven when the baby doesn’t even seem to care or notice! Same in number thirteen when he immediately got up and didn’t care so his parents knew not worried because he was clearly fine. Number sixteen it seemed like the father genuinely thought his son would enjoy is and was surprised and yes, amused, when he didn’t. In fact, far from this being “fail” parenting it is actually good parenting. You can’t obsess over every boo-boo and owie.
Some of these are bad, yes, but most of them… you won’t be able to find a parent in the world who isn’t guilty of doing something similar to one of these. I can assure you that the majority of these children will grow up without any long term psychological damage from a messy coke and mentos incident. Glass Houses Ms. Sarran
The little boy DID get an x-box for Christmas. His mom caught him peeking at his presents so she switched the boxes.
Wow, the idea that there’s some sort of morality lesson that parents should attach some sort of morality lesson to arcade tickets — basically a kiddie version of gambling — is totally wacko. The arcade/training casino rips off kids, so this parent seizes a chance to turn the tables. Good for her!
I have been at an arcade before and won a super long string of tickets … even more than this person seemed to have. Are you sure she was actually stealing? I think I won like 750 – 1,000 – it seemed like it took forever for all of the tickets to come out and they were legitimately won. I didn’t see where she actually opened the machine and was STEALING them. Maybe I just missed something in the video.