Little shit

By moneyman22 - 01/03/2010 19:09 - United States

Today, I was asked to take care of my 3 year-old little brother. After 15 minutes of him screaming and me trying to keep him entertained, he started throwing his toy cars at me. He hit me in the mouth, and I started to bleed. My parents yelled at me for "not controlling him." FML
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Same thing different taste

Today, I was babysitting my niece and let her watch cartoons on YouTube while I cooked dinner. She screamed as I was cutting up carrots and I cut myself. She had turned on an episode of Happy Tree Friends and was now crying and wouldn't stop. My brother thumped me for not watching her. I now have a cut hand and black eye. FML
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Top comments

that's your parents fault for failing to teach their kid how to behave.

You should throw toys right back at him until he either learns not to **** with you or he goes unconscious.

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Wow, FYL. If they don't like how you do something, they need to do it themselves!

He wouldn't do that if you threw the car at him first. YDI.

wenderz16 0

Yeah, little kids are like that. They are too young to really understand, but that is why you start teaching them now what to and what not to do. So i'd say **** it and dont babysit anymore til your parents start cracking down on teaching him.

Send him to me. He will never do it again, trust me.

FCChelsea 3

FML has taught me NEVER to have kids.

bdoll90 1

I have a 4 yr old and 1 yr old brother. If they tried that with me I would pop there little butts. Not hard but just enough to make them think "hmmmm...maybe SissyBrit don't like when I throw things at her"

YDI. I worked in childcare and we had toddlers not even 18 months old picking up after their toys. A 3 yr old is NOT a baby and his bad behaviour shouldn't be ignored. YDI for not showing him who's in charge, even a simple "that's not nice" works wonders. We even had OTHER very little kids telling the misbehaving ones they were wrong.

Oh suck it UP, princess! Boo hoo, you got beaten up - by a three-year-old!? That's really weak of you. You need to establish a healthy power heirarchy in the kids mind. And by that I do NOT advocate frightening, beating, bullying or bashing the kid into submission, I advocate letting them know who is in control by (after one warning) firmly, calmly and quietly taking away the ammunition so the child can't damage anything including himself, setting up something passive for them to do (tv, for example) and pretend-ignoring them until you decide they deserve attention again (max 10 minutes). Don't give them attention for negative behaviour, but equally you must be aware of what they're doing. It's what I do with kids (mine and those I babysit) and none of them screw with me but they always seem to enjoy doing stuff with me because I make it INTERESTING for them and they know I don't tolerate crap so they don't try it. That said, your parents' skills are obviously low because they've managed to raise a spoilt demon from hell (any 3 year old should know that throwing hard things at faces is unacceptable) and a useless wimp who can't dodge a baby toy between them, so I suppose we shouldn't hold our hopes to high.. I agree it's FYL - not for getting beaten up by a baby, but for being so pathetic (and having such crappily skilled parents) that the situation even got that far.

Malinkrot 3

good job repeating what 10th graders learn in high school Early Childhood Education

The__Redneck 7

Not to mention that if he thinks being too busy trying to calm a screaming toddler to dodge thrown objects makes one "a useless wimp" and "pathetic," then she obviously ~hasn't~ had to handle any very young childen before. Which means her "experience" is just a load of crap intended to give her idiot opinions weight that they don't have on their merits.

@ #97 Ummm... For starters - I'm a parent. Secondly - I have 2 kids who KNOW that sort of behaviour is unnacceptable and have for a VERY long time. Thirdly - I have babysat for my brother in law's 9 kids for weeks on end when their age range was from 2 to 13. They also knew not to pull that crap by the time an hour was up the first time. Fourthly - Anyone who can't dodge or deflect a small projectile coming at their face is pretty damn useless, regardless of a little brat having a tanty. Fifthly - Anyone over the age of 7 who can't stand up to a 3 year old IS a wimp. The irony here, redneck, is that the "idiot opinions" (presumably mine regarding child discipline) you decry here are not actually in dispute by any thinkers. My opinion of the uselessness of the OP, the brattiness of the kid or the (seemingly) abysmally crap parents is entirely up to me and I stand by it. I don't think any labels for you could be much more insulting than the one you came up with for yourself, so I'll leave you to your little world of red-neckery. A word of advice though? Check the profile of the person you're trying to slag off - it might make your attempts at insult slightly more accurate, lol.

You sir, know how to raise children. When I grew up I called my dad "sir". Since the time I was able speak, every time I called him something else or misbehaved, he'd slap me right across my face.

@ #89 - I keep forgetting that common sense is something that doesn't occur to lots of people so they need others to think for them. I didn't do early childhood at school, everything I wrote was from personal experience. I guess you're one of the ones who have to do a course before they know how to climb a tree... (and before anyone asks "what tree" it's an analogy)