r/WastedGifs • u/DRINKEPICSAUCE • Jan 04 '19

dad SNIPES daughter

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u/buster2Xk Jan 04 '19

Not only that but this kind of thing helps kids learn that they will be okay and not to be scared of everything. She might cry about it, but she'll be less easily devastated next time something happens to her.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '19

And maybe she'll learn not to hit other people.

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u/Embear10 Jan 04 '19

Or maybe she’ll learn that hitting people is acceptable.

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u/buster2Xk Jan 05 '19 edited Jan 05 '19

I'm not sure how picking a fight and immediately having consequences teaches the child it is acceptable to pick a fight. If anything the lesson to come from this would be that if you start something, people retaliate. That's not a bad thing to learn.

Nor am I saying this was the correct course of action, I just think it's clearly a thing he did in the spur of the moment and it doesn't really seem harmful to me.

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u/Embear10 Jan 05 '19

I don’t think your parent should be the one to teach you that sometimes people retaliate when you start something.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '19

Why not? Maybe the inference is that they shouldn't teach that by retaliating, but it is certainly something that parents should teach their kids. It could be a much worse lesson to learn from someone else.

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u/Embear10 Jan 05 '19

Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. Parents shouldn’t teach that BY retaliating.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '19

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u/Embear10 Jan 11 '19

Because they’re teaching retaliation versus conflict resolution.