How To Fight A Baby

[B00]

Disturbing or funny?

http://www.goforyourraise.com/funcorner/mtwfqi3-3qu-how-to-fight-a-baby/

I genuinely can't make up my mind about this one. I can clearly see the baby's not in distress, but it still made me very uncomfortable watching it, and I'm not entirely sure why.

I know I wouldn't attempt anything like this and id go nuts if I did see anyone do it, so im obviously more in the "Oh my God, stop that now!" category??

And yet...the baby is laughing?

Your thoughts?

[pips1]

How lovely, if we can automatically swim as babies do we just lose the ability as we grow up then?

[DJHawkes]

Absolutely no issue with it at all and my 3 kids, and my three grandkids have all totally enjoyed very similar play fighting and always struggle to contain the laughter. My granddaughter loves bouncing on my bed and after several high bounces which I help her with she gets thrown onto the pillows backwards and she goes hysterical with laughter! (mind u she's 2 not 6 months)

[andy-hughes]

Zacs-Master - "Did you not get the joke at the end Andy, where he had his eye bandaged up?"

I did, but like everything else I have seen this guy do, it wasn't funny.

The whole 'humourous' premise is stupid - 'fight' a baby? Idiot.

[andy-hughes]

DJHawkes - "My granddaughter loves bouncing on my bed and after several high bounces which I help her with she gets thrown onto the pillows backwards and she goes hysterical with laughter! (mind u she's 2 not 6 months)"

My point exactly - everyone roughouses with their little ones, but not a little as this one!

[2sp_]

("thick as two short planks" - Sqad, I heard that!)

Anyway, I don't think for a second that this baby is in any danger or distress.

My only concern is that someone who isn't so careful my imitate this video and do their baby an injury.

But, responsible parents can play with their kids like this and no harm is ever done.

[andy-hughes]

2sp - "But, responsible parents can play with their kids like this and no harm is ever done."

That logic applies to every aspect of parent and child interaction you can think of - but it's not the responsible parents who are the problem is it?

[2sp_]

That was my point, Andy.

Responsible parents are just that - responsible. My only concern was the ones who would try this and not be so careful.

[ChillDoubt]

Anyway, I don't think for a second that this baby is in any danger or distress.
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Yeah, until there"s an OOPS! moment. Near the start, he throws the baby up the bed. Miscalculate that slightly and junior goes sailing head first into the headboard.
Most wouldn't do that with a puppy. Why do it with an infant?

[Sqad]

andy

-\\\\\ but it's not the responsible parents who are the problem is it?\\\

Irresponsible parents will find much more ingenious methods of irresponsibility than bouncing their offspring on a soft surface.

[andy-hughes]

2sp - just re-read your post, my apologies for 'skimming' it - of course that this the point we are both making.

I can't remember this chap's name, but when ever i see him on TV - he is on Have I Got News For You - he is always the one whose remark kills the humourous exchange because it is too left-field to be actually funny.

And that is what I feel he is doing here - hey, the notion of 'fighting' a baby - that's funny, right?

Er, no, not really, it's not.

'Playing' with your baby, which is what he is doing, that's entirely different, so why not just call it that, and avoid looking for humour that isn't there.

[Sqad]

Chilli

\\ Miscalculate that slightly and junior goes sailing head first into the headboard.\\

OR..sailing out of the window OR hitting the ceiling.....c'mon Chilli.;-)

[andy-hughes]

Sqad - "Irresponsible parents will find much more ingenious methods of irresponsibility than bouncing their offspring on a soft surface."

Absolutely, so let's not encourage them with the label of 'fighting' a baby, when it's just playing.

[Sqad]

andy

\\\'Playing' with your baby, which is what he is doing, that's entirely different, so why not just call it that, and avoid looking for humour that isn't there.\\\

I don't see it that way, i don't think he is seeking humour, i think that he is seeking "punch line"..."effect"..."drama" and if this is the case then which would attract more attention:

"Playing with your baby" OR "Fighting with your baby?"

Which headline would sell newspapers?

"Royal College Report into the association of lung cancer and Smoking"
OR
"Do fags Kill?"

[ChillDoubt]

Having just watched the video again, I certainly wouldn't have done any of those 'moves' he did on junior whilst wearing a steel braceleted watch!

[Sqad]

Chilli...LOL..you are incorrigible.....;-)

[smoneybags]

Like those idiots that play fight with children. It's not good!

[pixie373]

The baby's a bit young for that. Dread to think what he'll be doing when the child is 2!

[joggerjayne]

That guy has bars on his windows.

Is he in prison?

[Robinia]

Oooh no, i couldn't watch to the end. With an older child ok but not one that small. I've witnessed someone rough playing with a small baby and it made me wince and if it had been anyone in my family I'd have said something.

[boxtops]

I didn't like the backswing at the beginning - a bit much for such a small baby - but otherwise what HE was doing was fine. I would hate to think that someone much less careful would do serious damage to their own child by imitating this video. I must admit I did laugh at the end...