r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/UnstableIsotopeU-234 • 1d ago

We don't touch it Video/Gif

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u/Omeirawana 1d ago

Midway it became a game

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u/huntmaster99 1d ago

Idk why people say “we don’t touch it” or “we don’t xyz” like this isn’t communal, I’m telling you not to do something.

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u/weeddealerrenamon 1d ago

Most things we teach kids are communal rules. It's a way of saying "this is a rule of life, that we all follow". It can still be non-negotiable, it's just framing it as a shared obligation. Idk if the difference matters to a kid that age, but kids pick up on perceived "fairness" pretty young.

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u/huntmaster99 1d ago

I hate to say it and I wish it was different but fairness is an ideal and not always reality. We can try to be fair but that’s not always what happens or needs to happen. We should be teaching kids to be fair when able but also understand that there are time when it isn’t. What happens when you meet opposition that is illogical? You can’t break down going “that’s not fair! You can’t do that to me!” Cause you’re gonna get the response “that’s just tough shit ain’t it”

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u/weeddealerrenamon 1d ago

I understand that there are times when there's an order that must be followed. My parents were pretty gentle with many things but I knew that in a parking lot, shit was serious and I had to listen. I followed those orders because I knew that there was a reason for them (cars kill kids), and even as a kid I understood that the harshness was fair.

If this video was, like, a kid trying to touch a live wire, or maybe a kid a little older who can be expected to behave himself better, I'd feel different, but this just seems like a very low-stakes situation, that doesn't need a harsh rebuke.

I don't think we really disagree on the important things, I kinda think reddit got us arguing over semantics lol

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u/huntmaster99 1d ago

Yeah no I agree, text format doesn’t have the tone easily conveyed. Yeah no need for harness

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u/ApolloXLII 1d ago

“Why is my 3 year old struggling with the concept of shared obligation? Why are they ignoring me when I say ‘we don’t do that’?”

Lol our kids are screwed.

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u/Duellair 1d ago

Because somewhere along the way people decided it was mean to give their children instructions.

So instead they decided to give suggestions and persuade them and encourage them.

They’re children. Not everything needs to be a command but you do need the basic ability to give some clear and direct instructions for crying out loud.

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u/MrSmock 1d ago

I doubt that would have changed the outcome here though

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u/DaddyMcSlime 1d ago

if the father (i assume it's the dad) in the video had sternly said "please don't touch that, it's dirty" and then physically moved the child away it might have

instead, he turned it into a game if "play with daddy's hands" ensuring that the child would become distracted and stop listening instantly

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u/NegiLucchini 4h ago

Yep I can understand the older generation this could be a grab arm and spank situation or a possibly better solution would be as you said, tell them no and move them. Kids need structure and this isn't that. Not everything needs to be a "because I said so" that's crappy parenting but this is giving the kid a choice when he shows he doesn't care/isn't listening. He has lost his chance to choose now it's time consequences.

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u/Xsiah 20h ago

It has nothing to do with being mean - it is communal, because it's about describing what is acceptable in the world around them. "We" don't hit people - that includes you and me, and that guy over there. "You" don't hit people means that you're going to get in trouble, but if I hit you then it's fine. They're still instructions - they're just "fair" instructions because it's no longer a "do as I say not as I do" situation.

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u/ApolloXLII 1d ago

It’s simpler than that. You can give a brat “clear instructions” all day and they’re still gonna act like a brat. It’s not that people don’t want to give their kid instructions, it’s that they don’t want to do anything that would be even remotely taken or perceived as negative. So that means no disciplinary actions, no escalation protocol (if you touch it again you’re going in timeout), no leadership role.

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u/Duellair 1d ago

I’m not sure how to feel about this comment, because I fully agree with half and fully disagree with the bray part.

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u/ApolloXLII 1d ago

You don’t fully agree that a brat kid is going to act like a brat kid? I’m sorry I don’t understand how you don’t fully agree with something that I used as an example?

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u/Duellair 23h ago

Kids are not just brat kids, sure some may have personalities that are a little less easy going. But no one is just born a brat. Their personalities interact with poor parenting and you end up with brats. Which means parenting can absolutely influence the way they act.

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u/ApolloXLII 23h ago

I’m talking about brat kids acting like brats. At no point did I suggest all kids are brats. What are you even on about? Why would you assume that that statement implied I was saying all kids are brats????

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u/Duellair 22h ago

That’s not what I was saying. You stated a brat kid is going to act like a brat regardless of clear instructions. Insinuating that there is something inherent to “brat kids” - being a brat, and changing parenting techniques will not impact their behavior. My point is that there isn’t an inherent bratness to ANY children. They behave the way they do as a result of their genetics and parenting that doesn’t match what they need.

Better parenting with clearer commands (added in with the appropriate consequences) can change their behavior

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u/ApolloXLII 13h ago

Ok let me make my point super simple. A kid already acting like a brat isn’t going to stop being a brat once they get clear instructions. They’re not like “oh you just wanted me to sit quietly and not touch the thing? Ok cool no problem.” I’m not saying they’re born brats so therefore they are always compelled to do brat things. I’m saying that a brat isn’t going to respond to “clear instructions” because listening to instructions would have prevented them from being brats in the first place.

If you somehow managed to find a way to do that, you should write a book on and and sell it, you’d be a best seller within weeks and you’d never have to work again another day in your life, because that would be a first.

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u/jcornman24 1d ago

The kid is treating this like a game, pick him up and make it so he can't keep touching it

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u/Separate_Secret_8739 1d ago

Yeah thinks you are playing.

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u/Butt_Fucking_Smurfs 1d ago

All that kid got out of this interaction is I should have done the bad thing harder to win

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u/ApolloXLII 1d ago

Imagine multiple daily moments like that, for multiple years. And then these parents throw their hands up like “where did I go wrong?!” When they have an absolute asshole for a kid.

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u/Inspector_Tragic 1d ago

Hard to pick him up when u are recording him with one hand.

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u/MetalGear_Salads 1d ago

This is a Stryker stretcher, which means this either an emergency room, an operating room, or a cheap hospital.

In just about every one of those scenarios that stretcher is dirty as fuck. I’m not sure if this will bother y’all, but I guarantee those wheels aren’t cleaned. It’s like when I see parents let their kids sit on the floor in hospitals. Things are “cleaned” in hospitals, but that doesn’t mean they’re “clean”

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u/Banananabees 1d ago

Kid reminds me of my cat

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u/Ani-A 1d ago

Kids are basically just super needy, loud, bitchy cats.

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u/Plus_Protection8850 1d ago

Could say no more. Cat behavior spotted.

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u/ApolloXLII 1d ago

When you see people with incredibly well behaved pets, they likely raised their pets like they were their kids. When you see people with incredibly poorly behaved kids, they likely raised them like they were their pets.

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u/LYossarian13 1d ago

The second Dad looks away, he'll be right back at it.

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u/Granat1 8h ago

Nah, as soon as mum said it was yucky and not to touch it, the kid was like "alright" xD

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u/Labirintum 1d ago

And this is a wheel, u can't touch ... I told you homeboy ... "You can't touch this!"

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u/ChubbaChunka 1d ago

That looks like a gurney at what I assume is a hospital or medical setting. I guarantee that wheel is dirty AF

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u/Tiny_Cup_9060 1d ago

Look ma, I'm touching with my left hand.

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u/ProfessionalyUnfunny 1d ago

Yo, his dad is so fucking patient. If I tried to touch something he said not to touch, I'd get a right hook into the face while he yelled how much of a disappointment I was.

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u/surelysandwitch 1d ago

We should start a club

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u/Sandee1997 1d ago

We don’t talk about it

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u/surelysandwitch 1d ago

Some of us do

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u/Hy-phen 1d ago

We don’t talk about it.

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u/CodeineRhodes 1d ago

Bet you wouldn't touch it again though, would you?

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u/thehypnodoor 23h ago

My dad would have yelled, sat me down hard somewhere, then silently pouted for multiple hours and bring the incident up multiple times. Loved my childhood

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u/claretamazon 1d ago

My mom would have pulled my hand back twice. After that I would have been picked up and confined to a chair or her lap.

She gave two chances before the situation was over.

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u/MSotallyTober 1d ago

Thatta boy — testing those boundaries. 😅

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u/Lycan_Jedi 1d ago

Pick your f***ing Kid up. Say I said NO. and Freaking MEAN IT. Goddamn.

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u/HeavySomewhere4412 1d ago

Please Hammer don't hurt them

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u/Familiar-Armadillo94 1d ago

Kid was committed

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u/RustyOuthouse 1d ago

As a kid, I’d have had my own bed in that hospital by the third “don’t touch it”.

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u/ApolloXLII 1d ago

No no no I’m telling you, “we don’t touch this” is the way to go. It clearly works /s

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u/hurklesplurk 1d ago

Did the same thing as a kid but with a hot stove, after five minutes my dad figured feeling would be better than telling and that's how I learned never to touch something with flames coming out of it.

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u/DravenTor 1d ago

Man, my dad would have yanked my shoulder out of socket and sat my ass in a corner.

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u/Zer0tonin_8911 1d ago

As a nurse who works at a hospital, I hope that parent washed his kid's hands real well after that 🤢

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u/CarAdministrative449 23h ago

Worse part about it is the kid will likely put his hands in his mouth afterwards.

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u/Financial_Cress1447 21h ago

Guys I don't think they touch it

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u/GravitationalEddie 1d ago

I don't have any kids but I was one once, and I'm here to tell you kids touch the floor.

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u/Critical-Farmer-6608 1d ago

Might as well just let him touch it, he’s already got his bare feet on an ED floor. He’s gonna get placed back on the stretcher where he’ll guaranteed touch his feet and the sheet they’re on. No difference. Stretchers are not toys. Neither are wheelchairs. ER’s are filthy.

Edit: this more belongs in r/ParentsAreFuckingStupid

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u/Homeless-Security 1d ago

Ich hasse solche Kinder die kein Benehmen beigebracht bekommen.

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u/Frosty_Water_6551 1d ago

He got parried

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u/Renescention 1d ago

Wait I forgot, do we touch it?

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u/Kamiden 1d ago

It be like that....

Also, can we get a remix?

Don't touch it . Don't touch it . Don't touch it . Don't touch it . D-D-D . Don't touch it .

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u/Percussion415 20h ago

This is why we used to get flicked on our finger//point blank''

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u/Both-Leadership783 19h ago

Do not quote me on this but I feel like I heard some child developmental thing saying that a very young child only hears like the last two words you say so if you say "do not touch it" all they hear is "touch it".

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u/Peaceandpeas999 14h ago

Hmm interesting! NO TOUCH!

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u/PauI_MuadDib 1h ago

Got it. So speak like Yoda then. Touch it you shouldn't.

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u/ChaseTheMystic 14h ago

I'm starting to think the vast majority of parents just straight up never learn about behavior as a science

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u/ExperienceThisGaming 1d ago

4 words is too much to process, just say nooo!

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u/Spirited_Class1763 1d ago

finally something which doesnt break rule 6 or 7

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u/Luzis23 1d ago

Just because someone's a kid doesn't exclude them from being stupid. Get over it.

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u/Hullo_Its_Pluto 1d ago

Have you tried punting him out the window when you tell him not to touch it? Have a funny feeling that would get the idea across

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u/Xm_gamerX 1d ago

Someone make a song out of this please....

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u/BaronGreenback75 1d ago

Dad needs to start playing some MC Hammer.

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u/StatisticianFirm3979 1d ago

Is he...? Simulating a bite to the father's hand...?

WHAT IS THE FUCKING PROBLEM OF TOUCHING IT?

( kid got me scared so I'm by his side, naturally)

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u/PopularCompetition80 1d ago

Can’t touch this!😅

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u/Ie_anonym 1d ago

No touch.

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u/NoLecture7729 1d ago

My mom would have gotten the chancla already and sent me to kingdom come…

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u/5coolest 20h ago

https://youtu.be/cPIIaK4Vl20?si=Iw_nRe4-5tHSA5Dm

I hope this doesn’t become a diplomatic incident

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u/Super-Magnificent 18h ago

Don’t ever tell that kid not to play with matches…

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u/DeeEssEmFive 14h ago

I’m confused… do we touch it?

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u/Zealotteen 8h ago

That kid has set himself up for failure, not everything is a game

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u/maracujadodo 4h ago

great reminder that i need a lot of therapy before i should even consider having a child

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u/pitiburi 1d ago

if the kid understands "we (adults) don't touch it", it makes a little more sense. They should watch him in the eyes and tell him "YOU are forbidden to touch it" ("cannot" may be interpreted as "it is not possible for you", which the kid will immediately test). "If you touch it or try to touch it, I will be sad and I will have to punish you for it. DON'T TOUCH IT".

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u/Jellybeansistaken 23h ago

"That's all done" and pick them up. 

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u/Flashy_Camera5059 1d ago

Kid is innocent. You didn’t tell him to not touch it.

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u/Hy-phen 1d ago

If only the kid knew whether or not we touch it.

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u/ZeldorTheGreat 1d ago

You're so patient ❤️ must be a great dad.

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u/-DoctorSpaceman- 1d ago

A great dad would try pulling him back a bit and explaining to him WHY you can’t touch it. Kids get told not to do stuff 100 times a day, they’ll just tune it out after a while. People will be surprised how often if you give a reason they will actually listen

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u/ZeldorTheGreat 1d ago

You're right. I was just trying to give praise.

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u/Rafterk 1d ago

Just let him touch it