r/MadeMeSmile • u/astral12 • Jul 29 '24

Little girl performs by herself Good Vibes

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u/vlncxntf9 Jul 29 '24

just from a stand point of teaching someone to be on stage - the show must go on. if you stop everything for a crying kid to take him off the stage just because he got scared and started crying he's never gonna overcome it.

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u/fugue-mind Jul 29 '24 edited Jul 29 '24

He only looks about 4. He's not at an age where this will teach him anything about "overcoming". More likely he will just have permanent stage fright moving forward, will never want to perform again, and just have a vague memory of terror on a stage from his youth lol

In general I agree with you, it's just not a lesson this kid is remotely equipped to learn from

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u/Aldamur Jul 29 '24

I have to disagree with you on this point. Toddler have to do mistake to learn. If you always take their hands on everything they will assume all the time they can rely on someone else, which is not the case when they are grown up.

Yes I have 2 kids.

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u/reddit_is_geh Jul 29 '24

They have to learn things within their emotional and intellectual capacity. Kids this age are more likely to get some minor trauma outcome than learn how to overcome it. Because as we all know, positive growth requires overcoming things within reach... Something like this is probably well outside his lane of cognitive and emotional capacity.

You obviously want to make them self reliant and encourage them to manage everything on their own as much as possible. But some things are just a little to extreme, which is exactly when parents need to step in and get them back on the rails.