Worst family in the world?

[deanws]

I just want to set the record straight. I titled this thread the way I did because that is what the link titled it. I realize this kid could be worse off.

Anyway, I'm pretty miffed about this. The look on the kid's face hurts me.

I think the title fits. As I said in my earlier posts, it is NOT the fact that he didn't get an xbox that is the crime. It is the fact that the parents went out of their way to SET HIM UP for the disappointment. If he hadn't opened the gift and seen the box...then he wouldn't have expected it. That is what made him cry..the disappointment of it NOT being what he thought it was. That family sucks. I mean that with every bone in my body.

 

[Amraann]

I thought I was getting a car when I turned 16...thought the little box had the keys in it. It was a matchbox kind of car. I was disappointed, but it wasn't in cruelty, and after the initial eye rolling and "oh come on!" Both brothers really yukked it up, because I should have known that we couldn't afford an extra car for me, but I knew how much time my dad had spent looking for that particular car model - and if he could have he would have given me the real thing.

You know what I don't like is when kids aren't grateful for what they get. I think it was meant funny, not hurtful, but that was the end result. Guess what? We have disappointments in life, sometimes our family disappoints us. He received a gift that was specifically for him, wrapped in something he wishes he could have. All of us have said something we thought was funny, and it fell flat.

There's obviously several people in the family and they are spending the day together and enjoying one another's company. We're seeing 30 seconds of that whole day and making extreme character judgments. He looks healthy, he'll be fine. I don't see cruelty, I see poor judgment.

I think its different to do this to a 16 YO who may be more mature and able to handle it.

 

[Vegas Bride]

Now I'm wondering what the parents got for Christmas. For some reason I'm thinking they got themselves nice things they really wanted.

I got an idea, why don't we get Oprah to get the parents on her show and tell them that because they're such roll models for parents she's giving them a new house!! Then they can pull back a curtain and they can see it's a house of cards that collapses while everyone in the audience yucks it up. Now let's see a close up of their faces so they can show us how it feels.

VB

 

[Deborah1012]

One of my friends really wanted a bike for Christmas one year and her parents knew it. They told her she'd be getting something with pedals so she was very excited. Turns out they got her a piano. Yes, a much more expensive gift but not at all what she wanted. She still talks about the disappointment to this day.

 

[FLMom]

I spent at least three Christmas mornings looking behind doors and under furniture for the often hinted at but never received bass guitar. My parents were great people, don't get me wrong. They just thought it was a joke that I'd want one, and they'd hint about it until every year I'd get my hopes up. It ("I") was a running joke every year, and to me not a darn bit funny.

Needless to say, I elected not to watch the video. If you're going to suprise a child, it should be "nothing to something", not the other way around.

 

[GlitchWizard]

No one gave him a hug when he began to cry. :behindbar This wasn't a mistake, it was evil.

 

[GlitchWizard]

I spent at least three Christmas mornings looking behind doors and under furniture for the often hinted at but never received bass guitar. My parents were great people, don't get me wrong. They just thought it was a joke that I'd want one, and they'd hint about it until every year I'd get my hopes up. It ("I") was a running joke every year, and to me not a darn bit funny.

Needless to say, I elected not to watch the video. If you're going to suprise a child, it should be "nothing to something", not the other way around.

...I looked in the yard, everywhere, for my horse I never got as well. :-(

 

[deanws]

No one gave him a hug when he began to cry. :behindbar This wasn't a mistake, it was evil.

I agree Glitch!

 

[CW]

Paladine the name of the thread is just what it is my friend. I have been so heart sick over this.

I just want to set the record straight. I titled this thread the way I did because that is what the link titled it. I realize this kid could be worse off.

Anyway, I'm pretty miffed about this. The look on the kid's face hurts me.

 

[dingo]

Poor little mite...thats a form of child abuse in my opinion

 

[heavenlydaze]

I spent at least three Christmas mornings looking behind doors and under furniture for the often hinted at but never received bass guitar. My parents were great people, don't get me wrong. They just thought it was a joke that I'd want one, and they'd hint about it until every year I'd get my hopes up. It ("I") was a running joke every year, and to me not a darn bit funny.

Needless to say, I elected not to watch the video. If you're going to suprise a child, it should be "nothing to something", not the other way around.

FLMom,
soooo....did you ever get a bass guitar...like, did you eventually buy one? Just curious.

 

[AmandaBrown23]

I buy my kids clothes for christmas, cuz they want them. I would never do what these people did to that poor little boy even if he was peeking. I felt so sorry for him.

 

[FLMom]

FLMom,
soooo....did you ever get a bass guitar...like, did you eventually buy one? Just curious.

Nope, but lol, thanks for asking. Wanting it went by the wayside over the years.

 

[MeoW333]

I only watched half the video; you just want to hug that poor boy. That is downright cruel what his family did; and they were all laughing like it was hilarious to them. The boy's family emotionally damaged him. How is he going to be able to trust if he can't trust his family who would play such a cruel joke on him? and on Christmas none the less.. i hope someone gets him his very own Xbox 360; although i'd be afraid his older brother would steal it from him.

 

[White Rain]

I only watched half the video; you just want to hug that poor boy. That is downright cruel what his family did; and they were all laughing like it was hilarious to them. The boy's family emotionally damaged him. How is he going to be able to trust if he can't trust his family who would play such a cruel joke on him? and on Christmas none the less.. i hope someone gets him his very own Xbox 360; although i'd be afraid his older brother would steal it from him.

Yea the laughing REALLY got to me. Cruel beyond belief.

 

[Eire]

I hope that if he does get the XBox, his parents don't take it from him and sell it.

Things like this may not scars us for life, but they certainly do stick with us forever. Look at the number of people here who told similar stories. Video taping it and putting it online for the whole world to see, that's just awful. Doing it in the first place is bad enough, but sharing your child's disappointment and upset with the entire world and hoping they'll laugh right along with you is just vile.

My kids get very little except necessities. They know we can't afford an X-Box 360 or a WII, but I don't let them think they're getting one either. I'd rather hurt myself than do something that mean to a child. I always tell them IF we can afford it, I'll see what I can do. We'd never get the box and let them think they were getting something they really wanted only to trick them. That just makes me sick.