I had their little hearts pumping sooo hard. We were supposed to be on our way trick or treating, but I "ran out of gas" along the way, just before a dark dead end road. I had them all come with me, couldn't leave them in the car, right?
I told them we would ask at the house to use the phone. Little did they know there was no house, just an abandoned barn. I brought them into the barn, where Barney my best friend has just butchered an elk. We had pieces of elk, and blood everywhere, and their mother did the head on a table thing, you know the hole in the table, cut out table cloth, it looked like her head was chopped off and on a table, great effects. Then Barney comes out of the dark part of the barn with the bone saw just blazing away, dripping in blood, and chased the kids all the way back to the car.
Now they are all pissed at me, but come on, isn't this what dads are for? My dad used to scare the piss out of me regularly. Why are kids so soft these days?
2006-11-04 15:11:19 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
What part of it was for their benefit? Duh, obviously none. But mom, Barney and I all laughed for hours, recalling the faces and movements of the hysterical children. We did this purely for our entertainment. Get your stick out of the mud, have some fun with your kids, prude.
2006-11-04 15:20:15 · update #1
So you learned poor judgment from your dad and here you pass it on.
You are a bad parent, simple as that. You first concern should be for the welfare of your children - where was that concern during this prank?
You did this prank for yourself, so you could watch them be terrified. What part of it was for their benefit?
you so need to aplogize so that they can maybe trust their dad again. It may take a long time to trust someone who supposedly loves you and would do that to you.
2006-11-04 15:15:08 · answer #1 · answered by chris 5 · 8⤊ 4⤋
I'm no prude by a long shot but I don't blame your kids one bit for ignoring you. I'm surprised they still are in the same house as you. No that is not what dads are for. Any dad who goes out of their way to traumatize their child, Halloween or not, needs to have their children taken away immediately and put into a much safer environment. Kids are not "soft these days". Instead, adults are more sadistic. There is absolutely nothing anymore that shocks or scares most adults, but kids have not gotten to that point yet where they are jaded to single everything around them.
2006-11-04 23:02:19 · answer #2 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Neat - however the main suitable thank you to assist them recover from this is to describe the situation to a chum , Then , on the side , have that pal plan a trick of revenge , with your infants , so as that they could come back at you . you need to be a sturdy game (and sturdy actor) bypass alongside with it . Act stunned , scared, regardless of. Act such as you are attempting for an Academy Award . you will additionally be dissolving any fears or nitemares that they could could be harnessing
2016-10-15 09:39:11 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all dads are not for pulling pranks they are for the simple gaurding and teaching of their off spring. I think you should see it their way for some of it, but help them learn that is was only a simple prank and teach them not to be stiff because if they act like that all the time they're not gonna have too many friends if they take it so seriously. That's all I got.
2006-11-04 15:23:53 · answer #4 · answered by banana man234 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
You should not have done that. The ones children trust and rely on the most is their parents. This might stick with them for the rest of their life, even if though they will eventually talk to you again...it's a given. You really do need to apologize. That was an absolutely terrible thing to do. You will never know if it is something they wont take with them until they are old and married...not because it was fun but because it was traumatizing! I could just imagine if that happened to me. I would have been completely heart broken. Wow...thank God my parents never did that with me. It might be funny to someone if they were a lot older and could take it, but it's obvious these kids were not old enough to take it.
2006-11-04 15:24:45 · answer #5 · answered by apostolicgem 2 · 5⤊ 3⤋
That's F***** Up! Tell Them Your Sorry And Take Them On A Shopping Spree! They'll Forgive You After That...
2006-11-04 15:20:42 · answer #6 · answered by Lexy 3 · 4⤊ 2⤋
You didn't need to go to such effort, just randomly beat them up every couple weeks or months and they'll learn the same lesson: Dad's a sadistic monster who I will run away from home to get away from as soon as possible and never speak to again.
2006-11-04 15:24:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 2⤋
The only time a child should ever be exposed to things like this is if they enjoy movies with this type of thing going on - if they don't then you deserve to be upset at and ignored. In today's world things like what you put your children through could be considered child abuse.
2006-11-04 15:23:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
I think you did too much to them. But hey, if it worked then good joke.
I think I'd be pissed too, there are too many other things you could have done to scare them.
2006-11-04 15:15:45 · answer #9 · answered by asia c 1 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Bad move Dad. Especially if your kids were young. It might be okay with teens, but not young children. You need to SINCERELY humble yourself, admit your stupidity and ask them please to forgive you. And learn what is appropriate from now on.
2006-11-04 15:21:42 · answer #10 · answered by whiteparrot 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋