Hey, my 8 year old son filmed a stunt we did

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News flash....there are no perfect parents. Get over it and stop calling people names, its getting on my nerves. I do not like to see people personally attacked and bullied. Calling people "moron" and "idiot" should not be acceptable. If you have an issue or if you want to explain why you are upset by this man's video why dont you just explain like an adult?

Exactly. Since the two of them are listed from a similar location and talk exactly the same way, I think they're buddies or something. Typical to go gang up on someone. Now they are just being internet bullies.

To bad there isn't a report button here.

In any case, I refuse to be bullied by anyone. If you want to say childish things attack someone personally, that's on you. You look bad for doing it. I'm not getting involved in it. NOT interested.

sigh... it's not easy to get a rather simple message across.

idiot

from latin idiota meaning ignorant person and from greek idiōtēs meaning private person, layman, ignorant

in medicine it's referring to a mentally handicapped person.

many yaers ago people on the spectrum where called idiot savants.

so where's the insult?

the only insult in this thread lays in my opinion in the tone and the laughter towards the boy and the "name calling" done by the father himself; namely calling his son a "poor guy" because he fails to see the fun in "a stunt" his father proclaims "we performed" (as per topic titel) even though the boy clearly wasn't prepared at all for what his father was about to do...

that's what i point out. no more. no less.

and i am not entitled to call this parent ignorant???

beside that: he's apparently so ignorant that he doesn't even get a clue that some people have other native languages than his own.... and can't resist the urge to teach me words i can learn...

maar goed. iedereen zijn ding en zijn "grapjes". bare jeg ikke skal opleve flere af den slags "sjov" på bekostning af endnu en aspie...

it's ok. i apologize for being rude and bad with words. and english. and being hurt by seeing this funny video. i'll live with that.

i still mean that i respect your will to do whatever it takes to be there for your son. don't doubt that.

Okay. I'm sorry for the name tagging. Who am I to judge? I just completely miss what positive thing your son could pick up from your action? My logic says, it's quite counterproductive.

But hey....

NO!

You called him an "idiot parent" which basically means he is an idiot as a parent and you can not ascertain that from a, less that a minute, video. I tell my kids things and they sometimes dont know what I mean...it happens. He said he explained to his son, obviously he didnt understand what was going to happen. The reason he says "poor guy" is because he feels bad that instead of seeing the humor in the situation he only felt anxiety. I wish I could see the humor in things too. My husband tends to use sarcasm a lot, my son and I do not always "get it" and its supposed to be funny.....and Im sorry but it is sad that I and my son dont see the humor. This man is trying to help his son to see the humor, he is not trying to humiliate him and make fun of him.

Now, do you understand?
If not...I dont care anymore Im tired of people like you that think you have the right to be verbally abusive to people you know nothing about!

Thank you. Unfortunately, they aren't interested in knowing or understanding. They don't care that there was no intention to hurt my son and for that matter, his reaction was completely unexpected on top of all. Our kids do things we don't expect in situations. But they already made up their minds that they know all the facts and are better than everyone else. I think it's really interesting how rant tries to justify using the word idiot by trying to tone the context or color and twist to his own liking. I'd like to see him go out on a public street and start picking things to call people idiots for and see how long he lasts. Oh, and to be clear, he has to actually verbally go ahead and call them idiots. I'm sure they'll all be more than happy to accept his lame excuse for what a great word he thinks it is to use on people.

Bottom line: If you really care about someone taking your opinion seriously, you don't call them idiots or morons or anything else that matches up with that. Words like stupid and dumb. Words we fight against every day with our conditions because we aren't any of those. The word idiot is NOT used in a contexts that are freindly and isn't considered a friendly term. It's disrespectful and rude.

It's like walking up to someone and hitting them with a baseball bat and then trying to justify it with something like "Oh I didn't mean it THAT way." When you knew full well what the outcome would be and how it would be recieved on the other end. Or another analogy is this... walking into a room filled with black people and shouting the N word at them. Then going, "Oh it's not that bad the way I use it!" Like they're going to care when it means something else entirely to them (and you know it).

So, I really don't have anything else to say to these two. I only want them to leave me alone. And I've already said that once and had it IGNORED.

Webster's Dictionary: IDIOT: 1: An UTTERLY STUPID or FOOLISH person. 2: a person in the LOWEST ORDER of a class of MENTAL RETARDATION, having a mental age of less than three years and an intelligence quotient under 25.

Yep, insult... all the way.

I think that your son will have a good laugh about this video, one day.

I'd rather be called an aspie, than an Idiot Savant, so there.

I was going to say that as well. I wish my parents would have caught me on film when I was a kid....I would have loved to see it!

Thank you CR, I'm absolutely certain he will.

And thank you lilolme, for everything you've done here.

LOOL! That was a funny cool video! Love the laugh of the father. The boy was really surprised but he found himself that good bringing the camera to the edge of the balcony like searching for the fan, thats impressive really!
Thanks for sharing. I see there was a lot of talkings here, I dont know what the fuss is about I just enjoyed the video!

Thank you He did do a very good job for such a little guy. I was impressed with him.

The neigh sayers here have no idea that what you did was a positive experience for your son. I think it is part of a parents job to take the child out of their comfort-zone so they can learn to experience and handle the unexpected things that they would not do on their own. Also to find humor in unexpected places, that it is ok to do something safe that is out of the ordinary. (gosh I do hope you looked for cars and pedestrians first and cleaned up later). Movies, TV, real life - people have thrown watermelon, water, water balloons off roofs. On Scrubs, something is often thrown off the roof. I have thrown furniture and broken appliance out the front door and when my husband comes home just looks at me, says, " so the vacuum broke today?"
People go to amusement parks, shoot fireworks, race cars, climb mountains to be taken out of their comfort-zone. It is also how you overcome phobias, like flying. (ok it is not nice to laugh at a lady who is afraid of kittens, but it is funny)

why? because it is funny.

Thank you, you are absolutely right.