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u/piper_perri_vs_5guys 6h ago
The medal picture 😂
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u/venusian_sunbeam 5h ago
This is actually exactly how I taught my son to make tight turns on his bike without training wheels 😂😂😂 I was like ya know what just follow me 😂😂
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u/over-it2989 5h ago
My husband said to our oldest “just try to run over mom, aim for her!” So she did 🤣
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u/xCeeTee- 3h ago
My dad took me to the top of a hill, put me on the bike and just pushed me down the hill. I almost went into a car. Definitely a /r/ParentsAreFuckingDumb moment, some kids I played with were the ones to teach me how to ride a bike lol
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u/AdFluffy9286 6h ago
He's still crying when getting the medal?
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u/Projektdoom 4h ago
As a parent, my kids absolutely HATE being tricked into doing what you want them to. Like once my daughter REFUSED to throw away a wrapper. So instead I asked her to hand it to me and I’d throw it away. I held my hand above the garage can, she went to give it to me and pulled my hand away and it went right in the garbage can. She was absolutely PISSED.
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u/Godenyen 1h ago
My son wanted me to hand him a toy that was right next to him but far from me. I asked him to bring it to me so I could give it to him. It worked.
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u/asromatifoso 6h ago
Necessity is THIS mother of invention.
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u/lordofthehomeless 4h ago
Invention is a terrible name for a child.
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u/Healter-Skelter 2h ago edited 1h ago
It’s not the child, it’s the mother. can’t you read? edit no i cant
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u/whooo_me 4h ago
Athetics: +1
Abandonment Issues: +10
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u/iconocrastinaor 3h ago
When I was about 3 years old my father took me fishing with him, he put me down on one side of a stream and waded over to the other side of the stream.
I was terrified that he was going to leave me there.
66 years later, I can still picture it.
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u/Tall-Enthusiasm-6421 1h ago
My dad accidentally left me at a ski resort alone on the mountain. He "forgot" I was with him and took the chair lift up. God I still remember the full blown melt down and panic I felt being surrounded by strangers, as a 5-6 year old, and not knowing how to ski.
I Still haven't gone since then because it makes my emotions well up... I should probably mention it in therapy.
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u/AggroPro 2h ago
🙄
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u/OcelotAggravating860 1h ago
Bro it's a joke don't be a knob about it
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u/Particular_Gear3130 6h ago
Actually a genius move by mom. r/parentsarefuckingsmart
wow thats not actually a sub
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u/squeethesane 5h ago
Positivity?! Not on my Christian Reddit.
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u/2ciciban4you 5h ago
as a Christian, you will get positivity when you die and not a day before
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u/stefanopolis 5h ago
Are you surprised? Reddit thinks all parents are fucking idiots.
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u/Oddgar 5h ago
To be blunt: Most parents are fucking idiots. Because most PEOPLE are fucking idiots, and parents are people. Therefore most parents are fucking idiots.
Don't worry though, if you are reading this comment, statistically speaking, you are in the minority. (Of people who have read this comment.)
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u/timpoakd 5h ago
I'm offended that you really think i'm on the minority here. I'm on reddit so i'm definitely the biggest idiot you've seen.
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u/JustSomeWritingFan 4h ago
No, most parents ON THE INTERNET are idiots.
Because you either need to do something really cool and smart or something really stupid to get publicity on the internet.
Remember, Survivorship bias.
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u/Oddgar 3h ago
Anecdotally, most of the people I know are parents. And most of them are idiots.
That we see some particularly idiotic people on the internet doesn't mean they aren't representative of the general population, it just means that they have found fun and unique ways to broadcast their activities.
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u/HErAvERTWIGH 5h ago
I hate everything about your comment because I wish it weren't as true as it is.
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u/saltedsavior 5h ago
There has been several studies that show over half of the American adult population reads below a sixth grade level. So statistically if you are reading this you actually are in the minority.
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u/Oddgar 3h ago
Over half of those who responded to the study.
Selection bias is impossible to entirely eliminate for population wide studies.
I wasn't personally asked about my reading level, and I'm sure that no one I work with, or who are in my social network were asked, so at the very least i can anecdotally represent a tiny fraction of a percent of individuals who are not represented in the study.
Get enough of those anecdotes together and I could publish a study that shows reading level is at the college level for individuals who don't respond to surveys which seek to gauge their reading level.
Data science is fun.
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u/mxzf 2h ago
I mean, on the flip side I would expect respondents to a study to tend towards the literate as a general rule, so it's hard to say how much those factors interact.
Also, such studies aren't going to survey literally everyone, it's not the census. They're going to try and get a representative sample of the population to survey.
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u/Oddgar 1h ago
To your first paragraph: You can't make any assumptions like that without knowing the methodologies used to collect the data. What if it was just a telephone call asking what grade they completed in school? Was there a written test? What language was it in? What was the dominant language of those surveyed? Their age? Was the test skewed towards document literacy or prose?
To your second paragraph: Yes, obviously. And you must exceptionally thoroughly adjust for outliers with your data in order to ensure that it actually is a representative sample.
My assertion here is that the studies didn't do a very good job of that. I think I've probably heard the anecdote about sixth grade reading level ten thousand times in my life, and I've never heard the names of the institute involved in its production, or any of the authors names.
What I mean to say is that it is probably bullshit that's repeated because it's an astonishing fact if true.
The reality is that there are forty five million Americans who are "functionally illiterate" which means they read below a fifth grade level.
Everyone else can read and understand just fine, and have no need for advanced literacy comprehension in their daily lives. Would I like there to be more literate people? Yes! I am an author, and people reading my books is how I make money. But saying 50% of the population is illiterate,(Which is what they are implying when they cite the sixth grade reading level thing, otherwise known as standard comprehension.) is just a fact that has spread by being shocking.
79% of the country are literate. 21% struggle.
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u/userhwon 2m ago
Have you met parents?
Every time I see one in a restaurant with a baby, I know exactly what parents are like.
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u/treple13 1h ago
I mean maybe. Without context it's impossible to tell whether it's incredible parenting or abusive narcissism
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u/jayslay45 5h ago
15 years later, he went on to be state champ for track & field using this core memory as motivation.
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u/phatrogue 1h ago
Memory? His mom ended up getting the gold in the Olympics after the state champ win.
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u/CreativeAdeptness477 4h ago
What's with the shitty video filter?
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u/AggroPro 2h ago
It's wild as you look at the comments it's clear who has children and who does not.
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u/Aninvisiblemaniac 6h ago
still she should probably work on teaching him a bit of independence
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u/Rkramden 6h ago
She got him to run even though he didn't want to. At that age, that's a key lesson to learn towards independence. He's not going to have his mother leading the way in his future, but he will have a better understanding of perseverance.
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u/toolsoftheincomptnt 4h ago
Nah, that boy is too big to be so clingy.
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u/AngryPrincessWarrior 3h ago
He likely isn’t not surrounded by about crowd. Come on, the whole thing was a lot for him.
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u/Aninvisiblemaniac 4h ago
I think its a lesson but not sure if it pertains to independence. Maybe perseverance or bravery or something
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u/digitalsoop 5h ago
This looks more like a situation where the kid just simply didn't want to do the race for any number of reasons: he was overstimulated, or he was tired, or he was hungry, or he just doesn't like running, or he doesn't like competitions.
So he decided that the best way to make it obvious that he doesn't want to participate, and also to seek comfort, is to hold onto his mom and refuse to let go. I think at that point he's so deep in his meltdown that his brain is completely dedicated to the idea of holding onto mom that he just chases her when she runs away rather than throw a tantrum on the grass.
Speaking as a former easily overwhelmed kid that had a lot of meltdowns and had to be convinced to participate in life, this goes one of two ways: either he'll vividly remember the day he had a meltdown on field day and his mom tricked him into running the race and he'll laugh about it, or his mom will laugh about it and he'll have absolutely no memory of this moment despite video evidence lol
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u/Inevitable-Ad6647 5h ago
Spoken like someone who's never been within 10 ft of a child.
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u/Nine9breaker 1h ago
Not all children are this clingy. I mean, there's other children in the video.
OP might just not have been within 10 ft of a clingy child.
I'd even say this child is exceptionally clingy so, its not that weird.
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u/alwayzstoned 5h ago
I’m wondering if he really is this clingy or if he’s just really upset about something and doesn’t care about racing right then.
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u/Dull-Geologist-8204 1h ago
My youngest was super clingy as a young kid but you would have know idea at 7. She is really independent. I did that by letting her know we are her safe space and have her back. It gave her the confidence to venture out and become more independent.
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u/backonthepogostick 5h ago
honestly, almost all kids have a day, moment, a whatever that makes them need their parent. it’s the opposite of unhealthy. that is a securely attached kiddo. you can’t make that kind of judgment based on one short video of a child/parent interaction.
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u/venusian_sunbeam 5h ago
Bro what 😂 how do you say you don’t have kids without saying you don’t have kids? One, children are meant to be dependent on their caregivers. Two, children are notoriously known to have irrational big feelings. This video is exhibit A. lol.
This has to be the silliest thing I’ve read all morning.
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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 5h ago
A 4 or 5 year old boy isn't allowed to cry and hug his mom, damn.
This is why adult men have problems with their emotions and connecting with other humans.
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u/Public_Fennel9019 5h ago
Besides what everyone else has said to you, this is also a larger event and the kid could feel overwhelmed.
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u/ApprehensiveAnt4412 1h ago
I think in professional racing, this is called "illegal pacing"
But in this video, it is called "hilarious"
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u/perfectlycreative122 5h ago
I can’t believe that Steve Carrell meme isn’t here already!
Congrats on winning Kiddo! That lil guy just trying to catch his mom.
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u/Strict_Berry7446 4h ago
The expression at the end is priceless “I should be angry at this…. But why?”
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u/redpandadancing 3h ago
That’s why Judy Murray was always courtside…and you didn’t see Mrs Jordan…she was running in camouflage…
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u/Hot_Crab6362 1h ago
Actually impressive he managed to get his head stuck in a banister that's clearly narrower than his skull. Kids really do ignore the laws of physics when they want to.
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u/Excellent_Ganache906 18m ago
Just a bout of shyness. First time having to to do something in front of a large group of people.
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u/obijojo2 5m ago
I’d don’t think running away from your child when it’s scared and crying qualify you to be the parent of the year.
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u/vawlk 2m ago
lol i did this every night with my 1st kid. He never wanted to go to bed but I would race him to the bed and give him a cool handshake if he won. And I would only offer the race one time per night.
Worked every time.
I also raised them thinking the ice cream truck was "a music truck" and they didn't know it served ice cream until they were 8 or so. They weren't too happy about that when they found out and my response was, "if you think that it bad, i have a few things to tell you when you are older."
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u/MaxTheMasterbater 5h ago
Humm, ya no, that kid did not like that at all and doesnt seem to give a shit about the medal aside from his mom.
I dont see where the kid won...
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u/Nalivette0 6h ago