When I was in high school, I was in a D&D group that was run by a teacher. One night, instead of meeting on campus we met at his house (basically across the street) because he had to watch his kids.
So we're sitting at the table and he's got his infant son on his lap, and he's DMing something for us. He takes his hands off the kid for literally one second, and the kid teeters over and falls to the floor. We kids around the table stood up gasping, but the teacher leans down calling out "everyone start clapping!"
So we sit with confused faces and begin to applaud, and he comes up from the ground with this infant who is on the very edge of tears, like he's already inhaled to wail -- and the baby looks around, sees us all clapping and his face changes like he's thinking "Oh, nevermind, I guess I'm ok and that was a good thing!" and he just starts laughing instead.
After learning that lesson, I'm pretty sure he'll grow up to be a stuntman or something.
My family used to do this and laugh when my nephew got hurt to try to make him think it was not so bad. Then he started hurting himself on purpose for laughs. We had to stop that right quick after that.
ryguy520 on May 20th, 2019 at 14:32 UTC »
I was told kids look to their parents on how to react, so if you don’t react they don’t react.
Semantiks on May 20th, 2019 at 15:23 UTC »
When I was in high school, I was in a D&D group that was run by a teacher. One night, instead of meeting on campus we met at his house (basically across the street) because he had to watch his kids.
So we're sitting at the table and he's got his infant son on his lap, and he's DMing something for us. He takes his hands off the kid for literally one second, and the kid teeters over and falls to the floor. We kids around the table stood up gasping, but the teacher leans down calling out "everyone start clapping!"
So we sit with confused faces and begin to applaud, and he comes up from the ground with this infant who is on the very edge of tears, like he's already inhaled to wail -- and the baby looks around, sees us all clapping and his face changes like he's thinking "Oh, nevermind, I guess I'm ok and that was a good thing!" and he just starts laughing instead.
After learning that lesson, I'm pretty sure he'll grow up to be a stuntman or something.
vampedvixen on May 20th, 2019 at 15:45 UTC »
My family used to do this and laugh when my nephew got hurt to try to make him think it was not so bad. Then he started hurting himself on purpose for laughs. We had to stop that right quick after that.