News Jimmy Kimmel Live - 6 Years Of Eliciting Child Abuse? You Decide.

[PTSDfree]

I don't think that's abuse, but Jimmy Kimmel is a douche anyway.

 

[Knak]

I did not think it was funny but sick.

I don't understand why a parent would want to hurt their child for their own entertainment. It's like pinching them or humiliating them. My sister did it to me constantly and I still don't speak to her.

To say, "Aww, can't you take a joke?" sounds like shifting the blame of reacting to pain being their fault. If it compounds the effects of PTSD then there is something wrong with it.

I'm not sure I'm making sense lately.

 

[ElleKaye]

Honestly, the fact that most kids are crying show that they most likely live in a loving home and are shocked that their parents would do something like that. It's the kids who show no emotion or think nothing of it at first is what would worry me

or...they live in a family where practical jokes are common and they all have a sense of humor about it

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I did not see this as abusive if just a one time prank and fell in love with the girl that sad "that's ok" mom: "do you still love me?" child: "of course I do"!

Goodness, if not for pranks, what is childhood? I remember when I was younger that we all went around pranking. Now if it was a daily thing or a thing of always trying to make you cry, something different. This, not that.

Just my opinion.

 

[Knak]

Fear and grief is the opposite of love and support.

 

[Powder]

I found a talk show that showed clips of a dad terrorizing his small children by opening a box containing an elf on the shelf. The way the kids reacted was evidence for me that they associated the elf with something absolutely terrifying. The dad was sadistic in his taping of it. He was sure they would react this way because he had done it repeatedly before. The mom covered it and disapproved, in such a way that she seemed fearful of the father.

Why Americans find that amusing (and they all did based on their FB posts) is both beyond me and very upsetting. It's not only naive, it's taking part in collective approval of treating small children like bears to bait.

 

[Missycat]

Its not abuse, its mean and maybe a bit cruel.
I know and have suffered abuse and it isnt that.

 

[physicist13]

It's a bit mean, but by NO means abuse. Intact, I would find it a bit offensive for someone to consider this abuse since it makes it seem like actually abuse that I and others here have experienced is equivalent with our parents taking (or saying they took) our halloween candy.

 

[Gamergirldelux]

I have no personal interest in the litany of late shows and talk shows more generally. At times, however,...

Just an evil ploy by parents to be famous or get noticed. It's so stupid. I do consider it to be a bit abusive in the sense that the parents want to selfishly be on television

 

[Gs172003]

Just an evil ploy by parents to be famous or get noticed. It's so stupid. I do consider it to be...

Evil? Really? Have you ever seen funniest home videos? It's about the same as that.

 

[FireSign8]

Yes, I see & know it is abuse. I hope sugar will be outlawed one day too!

 

[Gamergirldelux]

Evil? Really? Have you ever seen funniest home videos? It's about the same as that.

Yep and I don't like that either. Just as evil.