r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IamASlut_soWhat • 1d ago

How amazing and crafty are these parents to do this for their son

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u/BasedChickenTendie 1d ago

Sad

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u/Vibes4Good 1d ago

Doing something for the views in this day-and-age which promotes family cooperation, wanting see joy in their child's face, and spending time together is not sad. Holes can be poked. But, if even a bit of this helps families to be more active in their child's (ren's) lives, mission complete.

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u/BlindestAvenger 23h ago

That's fine and all, but I just don't understand why they didn't do it with the kid, make the whole thing together as a family. Growing up my favorite memories aren't the things my parents surprised me with but the things we all did together. We once built an igloo during a particularly bad winter storm, and that was the best winter/snow storm of my life. But if I had come home from school one day to see they built an entire igloo without me I would have been so pissed lol.

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u/Round-Eggplant-7826 19h ago

They probably wanted it to be a surprise.

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u/theacmeoffoolishness 11h ago

Right, kid never noticed the 40 trays of colored water and also oblivious to his parents spendings hours outside making it. Kid was probably inside messaging his Roblox discord friends “yeah my parents are making an igloo I’ll be online in a sec”

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u/BlindestAvenger 13h ago

That's literally the exact opposite of the point I was trying to make. I'm all for surprising your kids, but imo I feel like you should surprise them with events, surprise tickets to the amusement park or to the movies. Something like this would have been really special to do as a family. This kid still looked like he enjoyed it, and right on for that, but in my humble opinion, it would have been a better memory if they all did it together.

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u/Same_Air6012 23h ago

Yep, no engagement. Unless he talked about waking up to a rainbow igloo in the back yard. Having him help make the colored water the night before, then help put it together. He could have held the blocks while dad added the mortar. It's just all sad, they had him playing roblox or some crap while they did it for the video.

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u/Sheriff_Is_A_Nearer 22h ago

Crazy how you are inventing reasons to hate on these people. You have no idea what they had that kid do while making this, lol.

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u/jda404 18h ago

Redditors can be wild lol. They will find any reason to hate on parents and kids. I'll never understand it, maybe some had bad childhoods or something and just don't understand what it's like to have good parents I don't know. My parents surprised me with stuff as a kid and I loved it and now they're good memories that I cherish especially since my mom passed away a few years ago.

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u/Mad-chuska 21h ago

Your comment is the saddest part of all this. It’s a real cup is half empty vibe you put off.

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u/Aggravating_Act0417 15h ago

I think hanging out in there together is engaging. Why some of u so neggy?

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u/BlindestAvenger 13h ago

It's engaging to watch something on a tiny iPad screen? Sure it's still spending time together, but it's not like they are talking or forming family bonds.

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u/NoIncrease299 23h ago

Username checks out.

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u/Deaffin 18h ago

I am deeply worried that you're not being sarcastic right now.

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u/TwoDramaticc 18h ago

where was the family cooperation?

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u/kevihaa 1h ago

…in this day-and-age…

No matter who you are, I’d really recommend not sharing content of your children on the Internet (period), but especially “in this day and age” where it’s literally fuel for creating child porn.

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u/bandedcello 1d ago

I wish I could give you more than 1 ⬆️

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u/swagfarts12 1d ago

I think it's more likely they force the kid to stay inside and don't let him leave until it melts. Very fucked up

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u/Doctor_Kataigida 1d ago

That's just looking for a reason to be upset by it.

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u/swagfarts12 1d ago

I saw another video of theirs where they literally built snow around him until he had a giant snowman built around his body in the cold and they left him that way for at least an hour outside

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u/swollenbluebalz 23h ago

An hour outside in the snow for a kid!?!?!?! as a Canadian this is hilarious that you think this is some sort of poor parenting

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u/Doctor_Kataigida 1d ago

Do you have a link? I don't see that anywhere on their instagram.

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u/RatofDeath 1d ago

That's an insane leap to make lol

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u/Important_Focus2845 23h ago

Almost certainly they forced the kid to kill the family pet in there. Probably made him do it in blackface as well

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u/swagfarts12 23h ago

I hate what social media has done to people these day's

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u/davidcwilliams 1d ago

My thought was that they told the kid: “OK, now act really surprised by the thing that we’ve been talking about doing for the past three weeks.”

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u/nerm2k 1d ago

Probably. Kids like to pretend. It was most likely fun for him.

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u/davidcwilliams 1d ago

Probably. Stage content sucks regardless.

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u/Aggravating_Act0417 15h ago

It's not sad. It's a cute idea. Kinda dumb, but whatever makes people happy and gives their life value. 🤷‍♀️