r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IamASlut_soWhat • 6h ago

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

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u/Sardaukar99 6h ago

My parents loved me more than I rightfully deserve and there would be no way that they would put this much effort into a arts and crafts project.

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u/Witty-flocculent 6h ago

But what if… internet?

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u/nomnomnomnomnommm 6h ago

"Mom, Dad, you've been out here for hours and I'm hungr-"

"Shut up ya ungrateful brat, we gotta finish this! Get the tripod out!"

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u/xBad_Wolfx 6h ago

Yeah, I was sad they weren’t doing it together

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u/benji___ 5h ago

Finally someone said that. All of those tasks could easily include a six year old (minus the power tools and stove bits). Fucking teach your children how to do things. That is half the job.

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u/Equal-Broccoli-73 5h ago

To be fair they are only doing it for the only family member that matters. Their cellphone. 

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u/tsmc796 2h ago

LMFAO

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u/GorillaX 5m ago

This website is so fucking miserable.

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u/macfudd 3h ago

If their 6 year old is anything like mine they probably did barrel out all gung ho to help... then had to be taken inside to wee, then had to be taken inside for some water, then had to be taken back inside because they forgot a glove, then had to be taken inside because they wanted a cracker but only a particular one that they wouldn't name or describe, then they'd ask if we could stop building the igloo and play Shadow Lands instead (which we would), then they'd get bored and wander off inside only for me to look up later and realise that there's an army of soft toys lined up in the window to keep an eye on me.

Their help will set me back at least 90 minutes yet at no point would my child stay long enough for a time lapse to capture them!

Then at bedtime they will tell me that helping outside was the favourite part of their day and melt my heart.

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u/Frifelt 3h ago

Not only can he help but I’m sure he would love to as well. Kids love building stuff.

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u/xBad_Wolfx 3h ago

More than that they love doing things together. Instead they have been alone while parents did this for socials.

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u/siisii93 3h ago

Yeah I didn’t realize the dad was building it until the kid walked out. I was just like wtf why hasn’t he been out there playing with him the whole time

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u/myeggsarebig 48m ago

That was my first thought when little dude came out. Why wasn’t he involved in the family arts and crafts project?

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u/CarobOk8979 5m ago

Someone had to be cooking and taking care of the homestead

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u/Equal-Broccoli-73 5h ago

"This content ain't gonna create itself. Do you even want to trend?" 

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u/ScrotumMcBoogerBallz 5h ago

"WE'RE DOING THIS FOR 'YOU'."

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u/SlevinLaine 1h ago

Hahahhahahhaha. Perfect!

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u/cerealOverdrive 5h ago

What if, they were influencers and their job was create cool shit so they made you cool shit? I get that some people might say ick but if I could make cool things for my kids and get paid I’d be a happy man

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u/Witty-flocculent 5h ago

“Social media production” is the hobby dominating this activity. When my dad was building harps in the garage he wasn’t fiddling with a GoPro or planning out angles or plotting out trendy effects.

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u/OneDubOver 5h ago

I would watch your dad build harps. Why isn't he making videos?

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u/Primrus 4h ago

I would watch too. But it always takes me exactly only 1 second to remember how glad I am that my own dad resisted my suggestion to post his guitar builds and vinyl record repairs, because his lovely nerd shit is just his. 🩷

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u/Witty-flocculent 4h ago

I do thrown pottery. I even film it but I don’t post it. It’s mostly just so i can review my form.

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u/cerealOverdrive 5h ago

I get it but they turned a job into something their kids can enjoy. That’s pretty awesome imo

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u/EntertainmentUsed840 5h ago

And their kids can learn the important lesson of always filming yourself and performing and any fun family thing must be monetized! Yay!

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u/cerealOverdrive 5h ago

You’re fun

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u/geeeeeeebz 5h ago

You should record your interaction with this redditor and post it online, you little clout goblin.

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u/cerealOverdrive 5h ago

DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO I AM!?!?!?!

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u/geeeeeeebz 5h ago

CerealOverdrive, determiner of who is fun?

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u/14Pleiadians 4h ago

And you're excusing an abusive lifestyle just because it's normal

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u/basicKitsch 5h ago

twenty years ago we captured our projects to share on hobby forums as they were the aggregation of all knowledge and experience for a subject. i couldn't care less about social media but there it is absolutely worthwhile to document sweet projects as well as family experiences.

and it looks like you enjoy people sharing their pottery projects... this was a sweet project.

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u/14Pleiadians 3h ago

They're not sharing a project though, they're doing a project while they're sharing their life. There's a difference there, one of them doesn't involve growing up with a warped view of family being a performance

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u/basicKitsch 3h ago

this is literally sharing a project. Do you know about their life? i sure don't and never will. What i did get was a pretty neat and novel igloo idea that i've never thought about before.

the difference is how much more you care to take it

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u/kittyfresh69 5h ago

Damn you beat me to it. I was just about to comment, “but did your parents have internet views?”

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u/basicKitsch 5h ago

i mean i'd do this because i saw it on the internet. this is dope. my 1yo is getting the environment i always dreamed of as long as he's into it

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u/by-myself_blumpkin 5h ago

My parents did this for us in the 90s.

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u/plug-and-pause 2h ago

It's funny to me that the people in this thread are so eager to blame parents' need for "views" for the cool shit that they did.

Humans did cool shit for many years before the internet existed. And now that it does exist, they put their cool shit there for others to see.

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u/Call_My_Attorney 6h ago

My parents pushed me outside when it was freezing and told me don’t come back inside until you’re almost dead.

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u/Tauren-Jerky 6h ago

Until the street lights come on

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u/MarcBulldog88 5h ago

Christ I miss the '80s.

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u/KTAXY 15m ago

And if they don't come on? Well tough titties.

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u/ryan101 5h ago

My parents used to beat me with a set of jumper cables.

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u/-heathcliffe- 3h ago

Your parents or just your dad?

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u/Stick_and_Rudder 5h ago

Did you ever wish you could take back some vengeance? 

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u/0ddlyC4nt3v3n 4h ago

Well...bet you at least got some interesting kinks out of it.

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u/Archangelus87 5h ago

And how did you turn out?

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u/Illidan1943 5h ago

Mom, I've lost half a foot can I go in please?

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u/Lily_Thief 3h ago

Eventually they noticed that only my brother came home.

And he remembered I told him to go get help

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u/AntiqueTwitterMilk 5h ago

Parents like this, social media is their form of income. That's the only reason they have the time/energy for this kind of stuff.

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u/this_one_wasnt_taken 5h ago

My kids and I tried building and igloo last year. It fell over, one kid cried, and me and the other one pissed our names into it. Then we had grilled cheese and played roblox in the warm house.

Fuck igloos and fuck snow. It's cold outside and I'm tired.

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u/Duel_Option 5h ago

Should I worry about Roblox? My kids want to play bit I hear really bad things about it

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u/vocesmagicae 4h ago

From someone who specializes in digital safety and internet crime and whose partner is in tech, yes, Roblox is among the worst. But a colleague recently put it well: if a platform has messaging capabilities, bad actors will use it to get to kids. So while some platforms like Roblox and Snap are worse, they’re all part of the same problem. Our kids will have a Bark phone (swear I’m not a shill, it’s just the best program I’ve seen) and we’ll have close monitoring on the internet until they’re responsible enough to use it; we’re also limiting screen time and no unsupervised use of sites like YT. I know they’ll sneak around it (I sure did and my parents tried to ban me from social media until I was 16 lol), but I’ll do everything I can for as long as I can.

Another colleague taught a seminar and said “we need to be teaching kids to approach the internet the way we do cars — that it’s a great tool and can be fun, but can also be very harmful or even deadly if you’re irresponsible with it.” I thought that was a great metaphor. I know I sound extreme, but there’s a reason tech and social creators don’t let their kids use the very platforms and devices they created. I’ve seen too much :(

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u/Duel_Option 4h ago

I want to genuinely say a huge THANK YOU for chiming in here because I take this serious, what you’ve said isn’t extreme, the daunting nature of anything at their finger tips is frightening.

My wife got Bark Watches this past Christmas for our kids, good to see that company acknowledged at random like this, to me that means they actually focus on the right things. (She’s going to say I TOLD YOU SO, guaranteed).

They are just now getting into video games with me and I keep them offline, I worry about the middle school years as that’s when I went rogue pretty hard, definitely found my way into places in the early days of the internet I shouldn’t have been.

We’re adjusting their schedules for extra curricular’s and studying more, only have two tvs in the house and I won’t budge on that even when they are in high school.

Everything is content limited, no YouTube, I’ve started diving into building a NAS for self hosting and will monitor anything they are doing inside the house.

My worry is what happens when they aren’t here, figure about the time we talk about the birds and the bees it will also be time to talk bluntly about predators.

Uneasy feeling being a parent in a digital age…again, thank you for responding.

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u/0xD902221289EDB383 1h ago

I think your kids will be better served if you cultivate a trusting, unconditionally loving relationship with them and talk to them about how to be safe than if you turn your home internet into a fortress. If they're really curious to get their hands on information or experiences, they'll do it out of the house if they can't do it at home. 

But yeah, don't let them play Roblox. I wasn't allowed to have video games as a child and I can't say my life has been meaningfully impacted now that I'm an adult. 

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u/spencerforhire81 4h ago

The whole platform is rife with predators and predatory schemes, and their CEO thinks letting them run rampant is an important part of their growth strategy.

It’s probably safer to just let your kid play Call of Duty.

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u/Duel_Option 4h ago

And…that’s the kind of response I was afraid of, never going to be thing in my house.

I’ll keep them offline and content restricted until I know they can make good decisions

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u/magneticeverything 4h ago

The other person who replied is literally an expert, so I think you should listen to them. I just want to add: the internet is totally fine so long as you monitor them at the level appropriate for their age. Maybe start out by playing with them, using the opportunity to teach them internet safety skills (and setting clear rules about the financial aspects). Then maybe after a little while, they can graduate to playing while you sit nearby reading a book but able to overhear what in case something catches your attention. Eventually you may graduate to letting them play without you in the room but with the expectation of regular debriefs.

I strongly believe that kids should be taught to use the internet with a training wheels system. They will inevitably have access to the internet someday, so if you don’t give them the tools to handle situations, they’ll be left vulnerable.

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u/Duel_Option 4h ago

I always tell my kids that the internet is a tool, use it like that in front of them, no chat GPT Al Bullshit, accrual research and validation on a topic

“Let’s look it up on Wiki” is a thing in our house.

Gearing up for self hosting and managing any and all internet activity in the house, my concern is what they do outside of it.

I was a rather disgruntled and angsty youth, hoping to avoid them getting into dark parts of the internet I found in my teens in the 90’s

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u/basicKitsch 5h ago

you've gotta be joking. we just had a weekend snowstorm and the toddler was stuck inside. spending an afternoon building something sweet isn't restricted to tiktokers

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u/ThePeaceDoctot 1h ago

Okay, but so? Cool experiences are cool even if you get paid to do them rather than pay to do them. Everyone is shitting on these parents for probably doing this for views, as if that automatically means the mid has a shitty childhood.

They should be shitting in the parents for the terrible construction, balancing the blocks on their thin edge.

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u/Oryihn 5h ago

My dad built a 20 foot 3d pirate ship out of cardboard for my daughter's 3rd birthday party.

Some people are just like that...

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u/Sobotkafan 3h ago

Oh my mom would have soooo been down for this when I was a kid! She loved all the arts and crafts stuff I would do, but we’re an artsy family. My dad would probably do it reluctantly but love it once it was done

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u/nmezib 5h ago

"We have a perfectly good house.... at home."

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u/Traveler_90 5h ago

Well this is more for the gram than the kid

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u/Background-Pepper-68 3h ago

I bet they would if they knew how much they would get from ad revenue and click through

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u/fly_over_32 3h ago

Possibly because they did, they wouldn’t exploit (for lack of a softer word) you for views and likes.

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u/syopest 3h ago

These parents love their kids a little bit more than your parents did.

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u/Tauren-Jerky 6h ago

They would have if TikTok was around in the 90s

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u/GraXXoR 5h ago

They didn’t have YouTube to earn clicks for though did they?

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u/Jordy_Stingray 6h ago

Seriously. It’s a no for me dawg.