I recently had the sad occasion to see a video posted by a youtube family that I found quite sad. I'm not sure how right it would be to link it here (even if I am able) but can direct anyone interested to it if they wish....
A little girl, just under one year old and only just standing has had her feet pushed into welington boots and is attempting to walk with her little trundletrolley across ?laminate flooring. She struggles as she has no idea how these boots work and is also surrounded by ?6 fussy little white terriers, making the task even harder.
She stumbles across the threshold to the hall and then falls to her knees, while her parents laugh hysterically, telling her they are not "laughing at" her, but "with" her. They do not assist her as she makes a return to the family room and the boots again get in the way of her attempts to walk and she falls full length while still holding the trolley.
I found this so horribly sad to see but the comments (a lot of teenage girls it seems) on the video are in support of this treatment of the little child.
Anyone else have any thoughts? I may not have described how sad it was to see this wee tot unable to find her feet while her parents almost wet themselves laughing. This was done for the benefit of youtube as they post there every day and have a main channel and possibly others.
I know that I can be a sensitive flower about little ones but this reallly did seem to be quite perverse.