Today, my five-year-old came home from summer camp crying because her friends and counselors had all laughed at her when she couldn't identify colors correctly during a game. My husband then confessed that he had taught her colors wrong because he thought it would be funny. FML
I agree, your life sucks (57595) - you totally deserved it (4288)
On 07/16/2009 at 1:50pm - kids - by KWidget (woman) - United States (Illinois)
Father of the year. Write this down under "Things she'll bring up in therapy in adulthood."
#49 - On 07/16/2009 at 5:49pm by ImaBmyLonurTees
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Thumbs down to everyone who replied to Post 1 with a reply to the OP.
#130 - On 07/16/2009 at 7:03pm by MoobyTheCow
#49 another one in that book could be "my mother making a book of things that i will mention when i go into therapy in adulthood"
#113 - What? If you're going to put YDI for everything, since every post I've looked at today has had you post a comment like this, could you at least invent some other reason to post YDI than "I'm an idiot?" YDI for getting married? If you're going to be an ass at least be a creative one.
OP - Complain to the camp. Laughing at your kid is un-called for.
#161 - On 07/16/2009 at 8:27pm by bipolaradhdfml
I agree with #161 for OP
-Completely uncalled for from the counselors.
They should've corrected the situation.
and my addition:
Your husband is an asshole. Or at least what he did was an asshole thing to do.
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Dad is not a dad. He may be a father, but that is all. Does he think child abuse is funny too? He shamed his own child. What a sumbish. He has to be a liberal Democrat.
I'm tempted to hurl abuse at this comment, but will refrain and merely ask why political affiliation would have anything to do with a father being cruel to his child.
#208 - On 07/16/2009 at 11:09pm by lifecanbegood
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I'm of the same political affiliation [I assume] as 207, and I have to agree. That is way out of line. I wish people like that had no connection to the republican party. They give us a bad name.
#224 - On 07/17/2009 at 12:35am by grocerystorefail
I agree with 130: Thumbs down to everyone who replied to Post 1 with a reply to the OP.
#236 - On 07/17/2009 at 1:29am by christopherlove
#207 - Wow, way to assume that everyone who has different opinions from you is evil, which in my mind this dad absolutely is. You're an excellent human being that we should all strive to be like.
#272 - On 07/17/2009 at 10:38am by regalarius
Oh yeah because parenting, OF COURSE, has to do with politics, IDIOT.
OP Your husband is a real loser.
#274 - On 07/17/2009 at 11:03am by PakiPakiPaki
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How ON EARTH is this abuse? I bet that dad has such a good sense of humor. I always wonder about doing things like that when I have children. You were probably all raised with the most boring parents ever, have some character.
That's mean #1. It wasn't her fault; her dad was being irresponsible. How would you like it if you woke up and went to work/school one day and your peers laughed at you because something you'd known your whole life had turned out to be wrong?
#308 - On 07/18/2009 at 4:26am by musicjunkiealert
Umm the OP wasnt writing an FML because the camp laughed at her kid, she wrote it because her husband taught their kid the colors wrong as a joke.
#330 - On 07/27/2009 at 4:39pm by wolfman1224
Once my baby bro came up to me and asked me what game i was playing. I said "blub blub". I then collapsed into giggles as he told that to all his little friends and they went to and complained to my mom that they wanted to play "blub blub" as well.
Yah, OP, your husband is a moron.. I would strongly suggest not letting him teach or talk to your daughter, from this point onwards.. And call up the summer camp and give them a piece of your mind.. :D
#345 - On 01/22/2010 at 11:10pm by Secret_Fire_King
This is what I was thinking too. If she was old enough to go to summer camp shouldn't she have been to school already, and wouldn't they have noticed this and helped her/tell you?
Agreed with WhoaYouSuck. But, as the Mom, don't you help her out with her colors too or is it all left up to Daddy?
#17 - On 07/16/2009 at 5:24pm by GongButterfly
I know, right? Shouldn't it be a shared job, honestly?
And if your husband pulled this jerk move, what else is he doing?
#96 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:30pm by redbluegreen
yeah, my grandmother tried to do something similar but with animal sounds. The duck goes, CAWWW CAWW. The snake goes, CAWWW CAWWW! The fish goes, CAWW CAWW. The Elephant goes CAWW CAWW!
Her excuse was, what does he know? He's only a baby
I agree with #17. Parents need to take responsibility for their children and quit expecting someone else to teach them.
#275 - On 07/17/2009 at 11:12am by RodeHard
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xD thats awesome. i wanna try it when i have kids
#53 - On 07/16/2009 at 5:53pm by jessicaislameee
my dad did that me too me lol except he said i was black not white so i thought i was black for like a month
no kidding eh!! first thing that would have popped into my mind is a color deficiency or color blindness... what a bunch of assholes at that summer camp.
well they probably didn't laugh to be mean
maybe it was more like, haha sweetie, no that's not orange, you know that's red... no no darling, that's blue not pink, you know that hahaha...
maybe they thought she was joking around
and poor little girl. as if being a kid wasn't hard enough these days!
#241 - On 07/17/2009 at 1:58am by crackberrie
That's horrible... but, how could you not know that? Your daughter's five and you never asked her about colours before?
#10 - On 07/16/2009 at 5:21pm by Lonely_Lez
She's his wife. She probaly doesn't fuck him for long intervals of time in the first place. it will be nothing new to him.
#58 - On 07/16/2009 at 5:58pm by FDXCpinballwiz
OMFG. That's just great. You're my new best friend. :D
#205 - On 07/16/2009 at 10:49pm by redblueviolet
Your husband is a freaking jerk. I would kill him for doing that. She probably felt so stupid in front of everyone. What is it with guys that they find embarassing their kids hilarious?
its a parents job to embarrass their kids XD and nao everyone reading this fml has to think of a way to one up them. >_> hurray for that kids dad. he pwns
#82 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:10pm by spamtastic404
I know, he didn't even get to see the fruit of his loin! The only bad thing the father did was to not ask them to videotape it, because now his fun's spoiled, and he essentially wasted months of work and he didn't get to see it!
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How is this a FML story?
"Today, I found out I have an awesome husband. FML"
I'm very disappointed in you.
hahahaha he sounds like a hilarious husband.
but make him teach her the correct colors ;)
#27 - On 07/16/2009 at 5:32pm by Caayouteepie
If I were you, I'd be complaining to whoever employed those rude counselors as well. :/
#29 - On 07/16/2009 at 5:32pm by kallemonster
I'd be demanding my money back if they had to pay for her to go as well. :/ Fuck, send her to camp and have her come back traumatized...
#188 - On 07/16/2009 at 10:01pm by BLNovelist
LOL More like
Today, I found out my parents wanted to teach me the wrong colors just to be funny. FML
#297 - On 07/17/2009 at 7:25pm by Sleepwalker418
Not really. It's only criminal if you sell videos of the child and don't submit sales tax.
[Wow, I did not know there was a time limit on how fast you can post comments.]
Actually it could technically be classified as unsanctioned human experimentation, which is illegal.
But I like your comment #43 - and yeah I run into the comment timer all the damn time.
#52 - On 07/16/2009 at 5:53pm by Kristoffer
Yes, BUT the child's parents can give consent to anything being done to the child (like removing a kidney [they basicly OWN the child like a slave]). And psychological damage is not as bad as the physical removal of an organ (in the Social Services' book, at least).
#52- It sucks for trolling.
Umm don't think parents can just have their kid's kidneys removed without a good reason. Dunno where you live, but in most developed countries that would be considered child abuse at a pretty high level.
Someone watched/read My Sister's Keeper. At least be creative and use a different organ.
#162 - On 07/16/2009 at 8:30pm by OperationNicole
i feel sorry for your daughter
your husband is so immature!
i cant believe you didnt notice this before though
FHL :\
#38 - On 07/16/2009 at 5:41pm by pteresadactyl
I've actually planned on doing this for a really long time.
1. Have a child.
2. Homeschool them with EVERYTHING backward.
3. Place concealed camera on child.
4. Release child into the world for the first time and LMAO, then post the tape on whatever video-sharing site is popular at the time.
Yes, I AM SERIOUS.
Yes, I will raise another child in a gravity-free environment and then release them into the world just to test if the Matrix is real.
That's incredible!!! Let me know those experiments go. Finally, someone understands what kids are REALLY for.
@OP: Aw, I feel really sad for your daughter, but at least your husband's idea was pretty damn funny.
#65 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:00pm by divineinstrument
wow. what a sick move!!! you really plan on ruining a childs life just because you think its funny? well its NOT funny. and this is a great reason of why people get depressed. how would you like that to happen to you? and not only that... but that child may grow up thinking that theyre dislexic for the rest of their life and not even know that they arent. good job!
#68 A kid can't be dislexic if they don't know what dislexia is. Also, how do you know I won't just have all the books in my compound printed backwards? Or that SOMEONE needs to test these theories! Plus, if the child lives in an environment where they are taught these things and MAINTAINED so that they become so ingrained in the child's psyche that they can never be removed, the child would be perfectly happy. [Example: If you are raised to read books right to left and all the books in your house are written right to left, but the rest of the books in the world are left to right, you would be fucked later on. BUT, if you never left your house (where all the books are right to left), you'd be perfectly happy.]
Remember, difference has to be interpreted as different. If it is the same as yours, there is no difference.
Actually, if you noticed who was writing, you'd notice that I was clarifying myself. And it's not a joke, I'm serious.
i've always wanted to do the same thing except in a more physical method. like tie weights to my child since the day of birth and increase the weight as the child grow up. by adulthood or 18, take the weights off, he'll be like superman- stronger, faster and ready to win daddy some Olympic medals.
and for those who say this will mess up his back- that's what a back-brace is for. an Olympic winner can't have bad posture.
#159 - On 07/16/2009 at 8:17pm by worstpersonalive
Why do you have to be so serious about a joke? Jesus Christ, just shut up and laugh. You don't have to be outspoken on everything just because people are too tired of you to listen. STFU already!
#305 - On 07/17/2009 at 11:44pm by theodivine
You people are all so serious. I think her husband is a legend. I mean, no harm done really, just re-teach the colours. Still, it sounds like something I would do.
Also, the summer camp people are assholes for laughing.
Actually, language is a really sensitive thing for young children. Maybe she'll get over it, but maybe she won't. (Although I suspect this FML isn't real, because she's probably been learning colors since she was eighteen months or so, and not just from her father, but from all kinds of sources. Adults love to ask children about colors, and these days, most kids go to daycare or at least kindergarten. Three and a half years is a long time for no one else to notice that she's getting colors wrong, or for her not to notice that her sources about the names of colors are conflicting. It's still entertaining, though!)
Hit the nail on the head here! Kids are NOT taught colors overnight. And during the learning process all the adults around the child-grandparents, daycare, babysitters, parents- are saying things like "oooh what a pretty shirt! What color is it?" No way could the dad have single-handedly taught her the wrong colors without anyone noticing or correcting
Lmao!!
it jus added 2 da funny cuz da counselors laughed 2!
p)
#44 - On 07/16/2009 at 5:47pm by i_heart_yew
my siblings did that to me too when i started school. they also named the cat "pig" so i'd get my animals wrong, too.
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Who the hell sends a 5 year-old to a summer camp? I thought that was considered child abandonment (if you drop a 9 year-old off at an Elementary school 10-min before they open, it is considered child abandonment.)
So, why do you care that she doesn't know her colors? You sent a 5 year-old of to camp for a week because you don't love her! No wonder she's gonna go postal on her teddy bears!
Not every woman can afford to be a stay at home mom, unfortunately, and a lot of daycares have "vacation" in the summer, like school. I worked at a daycare for infants and toddlers, some as young as three months. It's not that they want to abandon their kids...it's just that three months is all they get for maternity leave. If they don't go back to work, they lose their jobs.
I'm thinking OP probably meant daycamp, especially since it's the middle of the week.
#69 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:01pm by Lonely_Lez
#64 Yes, but she said "summer camp" and "counselors", neither of which are at day-cares. And maternity leave isn't months for most places of employment.
#69 You are aware that ALL FML's have to begin with "Today", right? And that it can take several days for it to finally get posted on the frontpage. And SOME summer camps end in the middle of the week, or the daughter could have been so distraught that she had to leave summer camp early.
Learn to read. I will quote myself: "...a lot of daycares have "vacation" in the summer, like school."
What the hell happened to you, #54? Your life must have really sucked if you feel that summer camp is a form of abandonment.
To the OP, your husband is a terrible person if he thinks thats funny. FYL and FYDaughter'sL.
Wow, your husband is a terrible person. Get ready for him to ruin your daughter's life.
#57 - On 07/16/2009 at 5:55pm by IHaveVertigo
I think you're husband sounds awesome...a sick joke, yes, but a very funny story she'll be able to tell later. jesus people, he didn't beat her and I bet he's a lot of fun
#59 - On 07/16/2009 at 5:58pm by banana3718
AHAHAAHAHAHAH
your daughter may not know color, but i guess you will be seeing red now.
and your husband is a genius.
#61 - On 07/16/2009 at 5:59pm by WhiteDelight
For all the people who say "Just reteach her", it's not that easy. I worked in a pre-school and if kids learned something one way and they had to do it another way for school it was very difficult to change. Plus, I don't get how it's funny to set your own child up for humiliation. Maybe I just care about my kids. Also to the mom, I agree in the fact of where the hell were you! You never asked her "what color is this?" Shame on both of you.
Wow. Divorce his ass. Your husband is fucking scum to play a cruel joke like this on his daughter. Is it really funny for him to make his child a laughingstock?? Wow, this makes me want to fucking kill. Horrible parent.
and funny. my parents embarrass me all the time. i dont like it, but i get over it and eventually. it was a funny joke and the kids fine.
lol that's so sad. even worse i can imagine doing that to my own kids
#71 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:02pm by whitefishblackC
Wow. What a fucking dick. You sure chose a real mature and wonderful man to father your children. Your judgement is partially to blame.
Your husband is a dick. Getting a laugh at your child's expense is juvenile and ignorant. Children that age are very sensitive to ridicule - she may remember this for the rest of her life.
this is kind of unbelievable, if she's been speaking for 3 years, how could you never have noticed that she didn't know the right names for the colors? unless you completely ignore her.
#77 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:06pm by ghostgirll
So this is why kids are getting dumber each generation. Seriously FYL for marrying an idiot. That causes serious damage to a child and I bet that half the people on this site saying it's hilarious would be able to dish it out but not be able to be on the receiving end. Not only does that cause harm to the child's learning abilities, but that experience will be very traumatic.
#78 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:07pm by Alexgoesfml
Your husband is a jackass. I hope your kid doesn't end up with emotional scars. Best of luck to your kid
#81 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:09pm by XanimalloverX
Okay, that is funny and your husband is probably a fun guy. But seriously, 5 years and you never noticed she knew her colors wrong?
Wow, what a dick move -_- And those counselors should be fired. Seriously.
I didn't go to preschool or day care, and I didn't start Kindergarten until I was 3 months away from being 6. Although I did know my colors.
Then again, I didn't have a parent who taught them to me wrong.
#88 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:17pm by fadedmemories14
Seriously, you all need to chill the hell out. The kid is most likely not going to be screwed up for life beyond saying things like "Red... oops, I mean blue."
It isn't any worse than training a kid to be left handed, and it sure is a helluva lot better than training them to be afraid of blankets, or spiders, or whatever. What is wrong with people these days?
"My mom dropped a milk carton next to me when I was 4, so now I am deathly afraid of milk"
"My dad accidentally dropped a blanket over my head when I was 12 and I ran into a wall because it was covering my eyes. Now I can't sleep anywhere near blankets"
Everybody's parents fuck them up. This could be one of the least long-term problems a parent has ever caused their kid.
#92 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:21pm by crazeh_monkeh
haha. well hopefully she only started to learn her colors so it will be easier to reverse the damage. this is why mothers are the stay at home parents! lol
Why is this a FYL? Your husband sounds a very funny dude, and your kid will think it's funny too in a few years. YDI for taking yourself so seriously that you think this is a FYL.
Don't leave alone with this moron, you don't know what your is capable of!
#99 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:34pm by mcguyver98
you kinda deserve it because you married a loser. but yeah fyl
#102 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:38pm by commanderadama
Why'd you even have a kid? You can 't be bothered to keep up on what she's learning and you're way too eager to dump her off on the sadistic dicks at summer camp. I hope you don't spawn any more.
More like FHL. But that still sucks.
I can't believe these people saying they're going to teach their kids everything backwards. I don't care if they think they're kidding or if they're really going to do this - it's mean, insensitive, and just an awful thing to do to someone who completely trusts you. I'm not amused. :|
#106 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:42pm by anniemeece
Your husband is one thing, but the counselors another. My first reaction would be: maybe she's colorblind? And let the parents know to get her eyes checked. Not laugh about it. Wouldn't send her back there.
As for your husband. He seriously needs to learn what's acceptable to joke with and whats not. If this is something he does often you need to seriously talk with him if you haven't yet.
if this is real, it's sooo horribly wrong. the poor child. she trusts her parents to teach her about the world and this is what your jerk of a husband does? i do find it very hard to believe that you never once asked her about her colors, though. i think this is fake. my daughter is two, and knows her colors, and everyone asks her about them. me, my husband, grandparents, random people in the store, etc. there's no way you never heard her talk about them before.
#115 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:46pm by fretforyerlatte
My grandmother did something similar with my oldest brother - she taught him that cows were chickens and chickens were cows. I heard that was a ton of fun to straighten out.
#118 - On 07/16/2009 at 6:47pm by kittyvicious
For him it's a joke. Yes it's immature... Don't forget she will remember. He is the adult, he must think of his action with his children. He is the example of her daughter!
It's little, but if he did that, he would be able to do worst without knowing it.
My father did things like that. Now, I think he was a jerk, a bad parent and so...
So, divorce or make this loser change because your daughter might be more mature than him =_='
FYL!
(sorry for my english, it's not my mother tongue).
......wow guys, he taught his child the wrong colors so that gives the mom grounds to leave him or take him to couseling? Wtf? ITS COLORS, CHILL. Yes, it is sad that the kid had to find out she was wrong infront of people, but jesus, its not like he beat the hell out of the kid or anything. THAT would be grounds for leaving him, and much worse.
I'm sure he sees what happened and won't do it again. Now, if he fucks with the kid even more after seeing her cry over this, THEN the mom needs to address the issues.
You guys need to chill. Seriously
lol
so
yellow is red
red is green
and green is yellow?
#128 - On 07/16/2009 at 7:00pm by Failurewithacapi
Screwing up your kids really isn't that funny. Now the girl has to relearn everything, plus the mental trauma.
#133 - On 07/16/2009 at 7:04pm by MoobyTheCow
oh no! the girl got laughed at! thats not mental trauma! everyone gets made fun of sometimes and its not that big of a deal. kids should just toughen up a little bit
It isn't that she has to relearn it that is traumatizing - it's the fact that the person she should have been able to trust to teach her about the world purposely taught her wrong that is. If I found that out at her age, I'd have trouble trusting adults again, most likely.
#191 - On 07/16/2009 at 10:08pm by BLNovelist
Hey you dont know what its like for some 182. Many of us have to deal with racial slurs and sometimes worse.
#329 - On 07/26/2009 at 4:49pm by TheLoneWolf87
It's damn harsh that those people laughed at her, but your husband is a total a-hole for doing that to her.
Oh my god, my old coworker's older brother did that to her when she was little! He purposely mixed up green and yellow, and she still says the wrong name sometimes now (she's 21)
I'd just like to let you know, if you're not already aware, that you are married to a TOTAL ASSHOLE. Something small like that can set a child on the road for being bullied, having their self esteem completely destroyed, and later on killing themselves. It's bad enough if you dress them "uncooly" let alone let them make a complete idiot out of themselves in front of their peers. Your husband obviously doesn't give one flying fuck about your daughters welfare.
#147 - On 07/16/2009 at 7:34pm by blacklite69
I take it that you were one of those kids whose parents didn't dress them "cool" enough so you freaked the fuck out, right?
#150 - On 07/16/2009 at 7:42pm by crazeh_monkeh
I was one of those happy bouncy kids who got mercilessly bullied over stupid shit like this until they lost every scrap of self esteem and self respect they ever had. I'm now 20 and still dealing with the after-effects in a big way. I don't necessarily blame it on my parents, although they sure didn't help.
#171 - On 07/16/2009 at 8:51pm by blacklite69
you shouldve beat the shit out of the people making fun of you. or conformed. or make fun of other people. or better yet, you could GET OVER IT!
Time to sit your husband down and tell him he's a father now, and not some frat boy. Things like this WILL stay with your daughter. He may find them funny, but she evidently does not. I wouldn't be surprised if he's managed to destroy the trust and respect she may have had or would have had for him in one fell swoop. And if he did this once, what else will he do to get some cheap laughs?
Yes, parents can and do screw up their kids, but doing so INTENTIONALLY is not a laughing matter.
And note to self: don't procreate with most commenters here.
It was a hell of a lot better than this guy, though, right?
http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Little_Albert_experiment
I think we can all agree on that.
#153 - On 07/16/2009 at 7:51pm by crazeh_monkeh
But at least classical conditioning can be extinguished! Low self-esteem due to being laughed at for not knowing colors can't...
I always felt bad for Little Albert. Is Watson the one who used to keep his kids in cages, or was that Skinner? Anyway, as far as unethical studies go, the little monkeys with the "cloth mommies" is a lot worse.
Kids get over low self-esteem. Or at the very least learn to deal with it. I've had low self-esteem for a long time, and I think I am turning out pretty ok.
Huge thumbs up for recognizing Little Albert and remembering about skinner boxes. As far as I know, he didn't keep people in them, though. Just monkeys and rats. I do remember the baby monkeys with the cloth and wire mommies, but I can't for the life of me remember who did that one... Off to the google-sphere
#199 - On 07/16/2009 at 10:28pm by crazeh_monkeh
Exactly! You've had low self-esteem for a while now (me too). With conditioned phobias, you get in some extinction techniques like systematic desensitization, and then you're pretty much good to go. I'm not trying to say one is worse than the other, I'm just trying to point out that a conditioned phobia is much easier to treat.
I'm pretty sure Skinner kept his daughter in a box that was supposed to be somehow beneficial to her, but the public thought it was a Skinner box and condemned him for it.
Let's hope he's not the one to give her her first sex talk either.
"Well honey, it's like this:
A woman's penis penetrates a man's vagina..."
#151 - On 07/16/2009 at 7:47pm by premiermois
FY Kids life... She'll probably be messed up for life now, and never be able to trust her dad again.
Which is probably a good thing, though, since he sounds like a prick.
This is a jerk move, and I feel bad for the kid because she got so embarrassed, but it's also funny in a really sadistic kind of way. o_O
#156 - On 07/16/2009 at 7:57pm by SiLveRStaRLIGHT
Oh my god, that's awful!!!
...I feel kind of bad for laughing...
#160 - On 07/16/2009 at 8:20pm by scorpiogirl666
totally agree with the frat boy comment. what an immature move to do something like that at his daughter's expense. he should be ashamed of himself. hopefully this will teach him a lesson and he won't do anything like this again. good thing this isn't too serious.
btw people, parents getting divorced is way more scarring than a bad camp experience. why on earth should the OP leave the guy and do more damage to her family over something that really isn't that bad in the long run? some people here really are lacking in life smarts...
Oh my god. I'd kill him! SHe may never fully un learn that! Your poor daughter.
#166 - On 07/16/2009 at 8:40pm by alwaysalady
That is completely ridiculous. I am a camp counselor myself, and if any of us laughed at a kid because of something like that, we would all be fired. I can't believe they did that.
#170 - On 07/16/2009 at 8:48pm by wildirishrose114
Actually Sydneyy,
My pre-school teachers used to be harsh. They gave every kid a sticker and when I asked what mine said, they said, "you have bad breath" and laughed. I brushed my teeth for weeks. I vividly remember that. I was so upset. :(
#175 - On 07/16/2009 at 9:07pm by lastminuteperm
I find that terrible and hilarious at the same time. Hopefully your daughters got a sense of humor(?).
This has to be fake; there was an FML a few days ago about a mom teaching her child how to drive wrong so he couldn't get his license.
So? There's a lot of people in the world bud, maybe there's a trend with teaching their children the wrong things nowadays.
#189 - On 07/16/2009 at 10:03pm by swiftynifty
Sounds like daddy is gonna be deprived of BJ's for awhile...
#185 - On 07/16/2009 at 9:51pm by dyingstart
Haha not gonna lie this is actually funny.. Sad for the daughter but she's only five she'll get over it. All parents play little jokes on their kids no big deal. The fact that something like this ended up on FML.com is great.
#190 - On 07/16/2009 at 10:03pm by SizeMayVary
She's five and she doesn't read the back of the crayons?!
#192 - On 07/16/2009 at 10:08pm by Pedestrian
Webster's Dictionary defines "cunt" (n.) as 1.) derogatory and vulgar term referring to a woman's vagina and 2.) asshole fathers that have nothing better to do than fuck with their kids' minds.
#194 - On 07/16/2009 at 10:17pm by TuPutaMadre
What a terrible father, why would he do that? FHL, the little girl.
#197 - On 07/16/2009 at 10:22pm by unluckydavid
This is an awesome post. That's something I'd do with my kids as a joke. ::holds up red:: No, this is green, not red. ::pause:: I'm just kidding, you're right, it's red. :)
#198 - On 07/16/2009 at 10:25pm by TheBigDawg
The dad is NOT awesome! What if you grew up not knowing anything because your dad thought it would be funny?! You might have to stay back or go to extra classes!
#203 - On 07/16/2009 at 10:42pm by Stevieebabyy
Camp counselers have no right to laugh at a kid like that.
#211 - On 07/16/2009 at 11:22pm by smexahfeline
LMAO!!!!
he's right, that is funny.
and, omg. i really started laughing when the one person said "That is brilliant!"
lmfao.
#212 - On 07/16/2009 at 11:40pm by jackiexbby
You and your husband are too stupid to breed, so please don't have anymore kids. How did you not notice this until now? I'd say good observation skills are a basic to parenting.
oh great, now everyone is just going to run off teaching kids incorrect things because they think its funny.no wonder america is so fucked!!!
#221 - On 07/17/2009 at 12:24am by ollie_ollivia
I'm sorry but thats histerical. I've actually thought about doing that and other things like it with my kids someday
Hmph. I don't like kids, but that's just cruel. Not something any caring parent should do.
#223 - On 07/17/2009 at 12:30am by Tria
i dont care what anyone says, thats fucking hilarious. i can see why you married him hes fucking creative.
#225 - On 07/17/2009 at 12:43am by viiicwhoria14
Jesus. I'veong thought it would be fascinating to teach a kid "wrong" like that and see what happened - but I'm not dumb enough to DO it. FYL, FHerL.
#227 - On 07/17/2009 at 12:50am by somebodyshy
I think that I might want to do this. Not with my own kids, with my sister's or brother's.
#228 - On 07/17/2009 at 12:53am by tpark7
If this is true, then your husband is an immature jerk and you should pay more attention to your daughter. Teaching a young kid something like that isn't funny, and that's something you learn when you're around two or three. If she's five and you just now found that out, then that's really saying something about the time you spend with your kid.
this is freaking awesome. kudos to dad for being so awesome. dad = genious.
you, however, should have your child taken away for not noticing something like this. boo you.
also, everyone commenting on this needs to lighten up! it was a joke and obviously it's being fixed. the kid was young, she probably won't even remember it. at least he wasn't touching her in her no-no zone.
wow, cmon other people, please take a joke
they kid is not fucked for the rest of his life, just teach em the correct colors now....and even IF they thought green was purple for the rest of their life, big fucking deal, its colors.
and if the kid is like 2-4 years old, he/she wont even remember the incident
getting laughed at by a group of people? so what? welcome to life and get over it.
lol #237......learning will be harder, trust me. But other observational skills will probably be heightened in the case of perma-color-blindness.
o, and my english teacher's husband did the same thing to his kids in order to test out the theory of personal reality
LOL! I actually do find this funny as well. Your husband has a strange and good sense of humor! I want to do that to my cousin once-removed, now! She's about of age to be learning things like this... yes, yes... goooooood.
Your husband is a fucking asshole, and I seriously hope the morons on here saying they're gonna do it to their kids never have any. Ever.
#240 - On 07/17/2009 at 1:55am by deathproof
I'm going to be honest; I have always thought it would be epic to do this, but wouldn't have the balls to do such a horrible thing... It's not really f your life, more like the child's
Your husband doesn't sound fit to be doing any elementary teaching jobs. I'd do those myself from now on if I were you. Numbers, shapes, etc. Before she gets too screwed, haha. I'm sorry, though. I feel for your kid and would have punched your husband. Though, it's only slightly your own fault as well. :)
#245 - On 07/17/2009 at 2:20am by shoshizzle
5 years? Fake. Funny, but fake. You guys can't spot a real fake, but i can't tell how many times i have seen obviously real, sad situations called fake on this website.
i agree more thanlikley fake but funny all the same and i cant tell you how many times ive though of doing that to my kids but i also understand that it would screw them over for life and some one along the way would proly beable to bring child abuse up against me for it but eather way i want my kids to do better than me not worse cause i though it would be funny to jteach my kids the colors wrong however my sisters and brothers kids ill even teach the alphabet wrong to and the order of the numbers lol i am evil
Wow if I were you, I would make sure you're the one to give her the "Birds and the Bees" speech. Otherwise, who knows what would happen...lol.
#247 - On 07/17/2009 at 2:34am by TheEntertainer89
You daugter might not be able to identify colors, but she might be able to spell D-I-V-O-R-C-E?
#248 - On 07/17/2009 at 2:51am by SeanieAppleSeed
If this is for real is her dad a teenager or something? Poor kid, F her Life for having crappy parents.
#251 - On 07/17/2009 at 3:49am by weirdgirl_sf
It is! Absolute genius!
Bit harsh of people to laugh at her though. What if she had been colourblind?
oh my god, you poor thing. You need to slap your idiot husband for doing something so foolish. So messed up :/
#257 - On 07/17/2009 at 4:53am by ScreamingLibra
Pffft mental trauma? Hopefully this will help the girl toughen up. People need to be a lot less sensitive to this sort of thing.
your husband is a douche but THIS IS FUCKING FUNNY hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
#259 - On 07/17/2009 at 5:12am by youaresofucked
hahah i totally did the same thing to my little brother, but he was a bit younger.
then when he was doing colours with mum she kept thinking something was wrong.
i eventually told her what i had done because i thought it would be funny.
she didn't think the same and i was in trouble.
So during five years of motherhood you never once sat with your daughter to teach her colours yourself?
And you didn't send your child to any kind of preschool where she would have learned these things?
Either absolutely shit parenting, or utterly fake. Neither possibility is entertaining.
I always wanted to teach my children to count in some base other then ten.
#268 - On 07/17/2009 at 9:34am by snakesandlions
thats not funny at all. ur husband is an azzhole. i think i would divorce someone for playing such a stupid trick on my child
Are you getting her drunk and forcing her to play in the street next? Great job being a worthless parent!
#276 - On 07/17/2009 at 11:14am by RodeHard
I guarantee this so-called 'father' has done plenty of other cruel things to this child because he thinks it's funny.
How men like this end up getting women is beyond me.
More staggering is that women choose to conceive children with them.
#278 - On 07/17/2009 at 11:44am by NonchalantSavant
ahahahaha. I actually thought it would be funny to do this with my kids. Mean, yes. HILARIOUS, definitely.
wow, your husband is a genius!!! that's incredibly funny :)
#286 - On 07/17/2009 at 1:47pm by significance
Reminds me of a movie...Kung Pow....LOL woah. Thats pretty amazing on your husbands part
#289 - On 07/17/2009 at 3:15pm by nerdfighter4life
haha I love your hubby! I'm sorry your daughter was crying, though. :/
#299 - On 07/17/2009 at 7:43pm by xXmoses_rocksXx
Eh this is relatively harmless. It's not hilarious, but it's nothing to be too concerned over. I'm colorblind, but that was only after a series of head injuries. I re-learned my colors. Your daughter can too.
#302 - On 07/17/2009 at 10:15pm by smashedpineapple
HAHAAHAHAH The kid can relearn the colors. I don't see how this is abuse, it's fucking hilarious. She won't even remember it in a week. She'll look back and laugh.
#304 - On 07/17/2009 at 11:41pm by theodivine
Haha, that's funny, in a sadddd waay. Ugh, I bet he also taught your daughter a random made up language, as well.
#306 - On 07/18/2009 at 12:32am by boogersyum
You're husband sounds like a real asshole. I'm sure he's a funny guy, but that's something you just don't do to a kid. You should probably find out what else he "taught" her.
Your husband is an ass. Find out what else he mis-taught her for his own amusement before she has to learn herself the hard way.
Damn. I feel bad for your kid. Kick your husband's ass. JK. :>
#313 - On 07/18/2009 at 10:39pm by legendarygirl
FYL for having to be married to that creep.
YDI for marrying him of your own accord, unless this was one of those mail-order bride things.
#315 - On 07/19/2009 at 1:10am by miquonranger03
Hahahahahahaha that made by day. But that's so messed up fyl for having to live with him and fhl for having a f'ed up douche of a dad.
#317 - On 07/19/2009 at 10:59am by bballer923
You need to go through not only colors now, but numbers and everything that your husband would have taught your daughter to make sure he hasn't done that with other things, and you need to make sure that you are the one teaching her everything important in life from now on. Personally, I would question whether your husband is a psychopath because I can't think of one good reason that a father would intentionally do that to his young daughter. (Now your daughter may never trust her father again, and he thinks that's funny?) He knew that it would cause her trouble in school, in the future, and with anyone who realized that she had the colors wrong. Not to mention that at school, they could label her with a developmental disability because they would erroneously think she couldn't see, and/or learn things properly. As for the camp, the campers can't be taught anything, but you absolutely need to talk with the head of the camping program to inform them that their counselors are making fun of children who are different. What if you daughter were only color blind? They had no way of knowing. This is all around disgusting and I really hope you stand up for your daughter and keep your husband away from her, at least where teaching her things is concerned.
You take life waaaaay to seriously dear.... really... I can only imagine the neuroses you're imparting onto your own children. I think I'll pray for them...
Your husband is hilarious. :D At least it happened at camp, not at school. Would've been much worse.
Those camp counselors suck. I would complain.
#322 - On 07/21/2009 at 8:13pm by ishirticapslock
WOW hes an ass hole. this is shaping the mind of a young child, and she was open to learning and he probably messed up colors for her. thoes coundelors suck, arent they there to help little kids? not laugh in there faces.
#324 - On 07/22/2009 at 6:46am by ItsCheeri0o
Your husband is a horrible person. Why would he want to hurt his own child in such a way? I agree with #321.
As for the camp counselors- that was extremely wrong of them you need to call that camp and complain. As a former Unit Counselor myself I know that's against probably EVERY single thing counselors learn in staff training.
And as for yourself... you should be ashamed. Your daughter is FIVE years old, and YOU didn't know she didn't know her colors? That is something you should have been doing with her from day one. You obviously cannot rely on your husband to do it for you. And you are lucky that this didn't happen at school, as she would have ended up in special education, recieving help she didn't need because your husband thought it would be funny to mess with his poor child's life.
That's just wrong... on all 3 counts. Boo on YOUR HUSBAND, THE COUNSELORS, *and* on YOU!
#325 - On 07/22/2009 at 8:08pm by JustJazzee
That is horrible! I would've been so pissed at my husband for doing something like that.
#327 - On 07/25/2009 at 8:03am by shyharmonybear
Your husband is an idiot!
Why did you fall pregnant and have a child when you were already married to a child?
Tell him that if he ever teaches your daughter any other nonsense, you'll stop changing his diaper for him, and you'll send him to bed with no supper.
Why do so many adults think acting like a 5 year-old is funny?
If I have children, I'll make sure that they are well-educated and rid of any miscomprehension. I have often thought of being cruel to my future children, but educating them wrong is ridiculous and absolutely out of line.
what a douche what if went through life thinking the sky was brown and grass is red that's messed up
#334 - On 08/06/2009 at 3:37pm by Andyangels27
You guys have no sense of humor, that was freaking brilliant!
Of course, you have to teach her correctly this time, but you gotta admit that was freaking funny xD
WTF is wrong with you people praising this douche? The kid is never going to be able to trust her parents again. He's a genius? I would love to see you stoners' reaction to someone pulling this on you retards. The only difference is that you morons deserve it.
huhu....i knew he sucks....but blue is considered blue because the society calls it blue....some other society have different names for it...and if you teach a lot of people enough to change their mind that the colour blue is called green.....then blue could totally ends up being called green...:)
that is incredibly fucked up I have recently become a father and I would be furious if my wife did that. I really hope you bitched him out!
#347 - On 02/06/2010 at 11:40am by Whiterabbitm1
