You know, you can see him looking up to see if the camera was still filming him… by that I don’t mean to imply it was staged just that he gets some gratification when he’s filmed. They’re encouraging his behavior. Idiots.

My mother would have slapped me to the other side of the car and I’d have not touched an electronic device for a month.

Minus the slap across the car the same thing would happen if one of my kids pulled that stunt.

what does he say? still don’t get it

Nothing to see here. I want my one minute back. How the f*ck did this get dugg on the front page. Having lived in NY, I see bitchiness like this every few minutes from grown men and women. A non-event.

Turning is exactly right. For one, this kid is like 3 or 4 years old. Tantrums are part of the development process. He is learning that he has personal space (kids younger are much more “communist”), and he doesn’t like mom shoving the camera in his face. For those of you who don’t speak “child”, I can confirm Turning’s translation: the kids is saying “Don’t take a picture of me”. He is focused on the game, that is true, but the response and agitation would have been the same if he was watching a TV show, looking at a book, or playing with some toy trucks. Before this shot, mom interrupted him somehow, and that annoyed him. Then, she whipped out the camera. That was immature on her part. The boy is young enough to have an excuse; what was hers?

And again, as far as tantrums go, that’s extremely mild. Remember, all of you assholes were that old once, and you better be goddamn glad someone cared enough to feed your crying, pooping, lazy ass for all those years.

My brothers and i were able to play games and occasionally a controller got broken. We were lucky enough to be able to afford whatever the cost was running for replacing a controller, and we had Mtv when it played music videos. All of this is off point.

We yelled and screamed and cried over our games, and children today get to do the same. There’s no need for you to say you would mutilate your genitals while reeling in horror that emotions happen. I hope none of you currently have children, but if you do, I hope you seek help for your own emotions.

“Don’t take a picture of me.”

Look at the flipside of this. The parent probably saw the kid frustrated by a videogame, threatened to film him “being a brat” so that “everyone could see”, and then DID SO. That parent is just as whiny and immature as the kid, and are proving with this that it is their fault he is the way he is.

Asshole parents.

The (relatively mild) reaction this kid has to being exploited for the amusement of his parents is justified. This is just bad parenting.

wait until he discovers women…

Good observation. Initially like others I hadn’t realize that he was saying “don’t take a picture of me”. The more mature thing would have been to calmly tell the kid that dying is part of a video game, and to not get upset over such minor things. There was no need to bust out the camera here.

But I do I think it’s really easy for everyone who’s commented (including myself) to bitch at the parents from an outsider perspective – in real life we commit similar faults all the time without being aware of it, just like them, whether it be with kids or whoever.

Now that’s the problem today, this kid needs to be physically abused with a leather belt. See how that generation turns out, worse than anyone else. Smack them, if Children’s Services take them from you for that, good riddance.

I agree that the kid is fine. Saying he’s a brat with 30 seconds worth of back-story is fucking ridiculous, but of course, we are all Internet people.

I would say, though, that it’s hard to judge the parents as well. The video ends right after he shouts, and you can’t just cater to every single whim your child has. The child has to learn at some point that if he doesn’t like something, tough shit. To a certain degree.

Family pointing a camera at you isn’t all that bad, you know? So lay off the parents, too.