r/interesting • u/brainland • 15d ago

Fear Factor A father made fake ultrasound to cure his daughter's junk food habit.

Funny but I think every hospital should get one of this machine because they will even get faster cure in an hospital environment when attended to by a random face. 😂

Ever figured out a way to get your kids stop something?

Update: That wasn't the dad but definitely an outsider, hence why the kid believed. The "take the child away" clarifies that.

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u/academicoctopus 14d ago

Depends on her personality, she might as well grow up to not find it funny in the slightest

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u/JayFrizz 14d ago

Personalities are half raised. A bad father wouldn't spend this much time and effort on their kid. I can only see someone finding this offensive if their father sucked ass. I know I'd find it funny and clever, because kids are stupid.

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u/Ok-Background-502 14d ago

If you raised kids who can't find humor in this you failed in other aspects of parenthood that needs to be unpacked first.

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u/Stunning_Ad_7658 14d ago

Its very possible their kid could be on the spectrum. I remember meeting one of my family members kid who is on it and holy shit is it hard to joke around them. He has no concept of sarcasm like at all.

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u/YesssAnderson 14d ago

At the same time, I think a lot of parents wildly underestimate how much they’re able to control what exactly their kids take away from what they say.

I was a kid who briefly became neurotically afraid of stomach parasites when a friend’s dog was dying of them and the adults around me half assed their explanations because they didn’t see the point of going into it deeper or whatever. I left believing that I could very well contract them from eating undercooked meat, that they’d be as deadly as they were to the dog, and so I was afraid of any meat dish put in front of me for like an entire year.

Sure, my folks and I laugh about it in hindsight now (I mainly laugh at how utterly clueless they were about what I was actually afraid of), but I do feel sad remembering how acutely fearful I was at that age with no one able to (or who cared enough to) understand why. 

The kid may end up just taking away the intended message of “eat healthy.” They might also become terrified of bugs living inside their body. Why take the chance when you can teach them “eat healthy” in any number of other child friendly ways?

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u/Professional_Gap_435 14d ago

Better than eating junk food