“Honey, I love you so much…
…that I’m going to get another wife.”
The kid in this video is one smart cookie. He’s making logical sense, and advancing the argument that so many little children secretly (and not so secretly, although most are not so startlingly articulate about it) think when told they’re going to get a new baby sibling: Why do you want another? Aren’t I good enough for you?
[Hat tip: Ace.]
by the time the progressive schools get done with him, he will be part of the problem…
The kid in this video is one smart cookie.
No argument with that.
Reminds me of my 7+1/2 year old daughter’s anguished response, when we told her she was going to be joined by a little brother or sister:
“Why weren’t you more careful??”
Families used to be based upon a hierarchy, where older siblings trained and looked out for younger siblings in return for more resources, status, and obedience. They weren’t thinking, “oh, I just got replaced and fired from my job as kid”.
Sad.
[i]Families used to be based upon a hierarchy, where older siblings trained and looked out for younger siblings in return for more resources, status, and obedience.[/i]
Except for the families where the older siblings were household drudges in return for watching the younger ones get feted and spoiled.
Eh.
I recall my sister and I being excited, but alas, it was not to be, and I recall being sad when I heard of the loss.
Except for the families where the older siblings were household drudges in return for watching the younger ones get feted and spoiled.
Parents like to micromanage. It’s the company CEO having his pet analyst, completely ignoring all the advice of his more experienced group leaders and foremen. Of course, when something goes wrong, senior boy at the company gets the ax, not the CEO or his pet.
Well, imagine the heat she’s getting from her lover!
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Maybe she should explain that the newbie means a fatter paycheck from Uncle Sammy.
There’s an old joke about this.
The boy walks in when his parents are making love.
The father explains they are making him a little sister.
The boy says turn here over, I want a puppy.
How’s the kid know the word “pregnant”? He didn’t ask what that meant, responded immediately, sitting in his car seat.
With his accent and his agitated speech, he sure resembles many young adult black males I have seen or known, whose single mamas couldn’t manage them after age 12 as they muscled up. You know, the ones playing college hoops or football who say “Hi, mama” to the camera. Never “Hi Dad”. Ooops, I’m profiling.
“…that I’m going to get another wife.” Funny, that’s exactly the analogy my mother used once, when my wife was pregnant with our second child. She said the things parents say to the first child in that circumstance are like a husband saying “I’m bringing home another wife–you’ll love her, the two of you will have *so* much fun together….”
A set up from beginning to end. 1.) Who tells their children (inside a car) that another baby is on the way? 2.) Who tapes the reaction, in such circumstances, of a 7 yr old? 3.) How many 7 yr olds have exasperating in their vocabulary? Totally coached, no if ands or buts. No wonder the dems win….. people will believe anything if the meme is well researched.
parker:
I completely disagree. I know plenty of kids that age who have a vocabulary like that and are fully capable of saying the sorts of things this kid is saying, all on their own.
And nowadays, with YouTube being so popular, lots of parents record almost everything their children say and do, just in case it ends up being cute.
The kid needs to be “precocious” to entertain some self formed arguments.
Meaning not retarded or dumb or average.
Of course it can be coached, but the parent would then have to be almost as smart as the above average mean for that.
As for what to believe, that depends on personal interviews and interrogations, not watching videos. Same point I made on the Fergusin vids of people testifying.
why in the car? she probably just got back from the docs and recieved the news, and the first person she could tell was her son… (is dadda around at all? maybe, maybe not given feminism), and she filmed the reaction…
Actually, Parker, my mother did tell my sister and brother and I that she was expecting, while we were in the car. We were going to visit my grandmother, and Mom very carefully broached the question of what did we think of a new baby brother or sister. We were actually quite thrilled. Years later, Mom said that she wanted to pull over and hug us all, because we were the only people who WERE thrilled. The baby was our youngest brother, very much a surprise, as Mom was in her mid-thirties, she and Dad had assumed that the three of us were enough, and she had given away all the baby things.
Baby brother was born at the beginning of summer vacation; Mom didn’t have to lift a finger for three months, because we took care of him. He was our pet, our real baby doll. (I was eleven, brother nine, little sister six.)
Mom didn’t have to lift a finger for three months, because we took care of him. He was our pet, our real baby doll.
Do you remember when Sarah Palin’s family took the stage? Who was holding the smaller kids that couldn’t walk?
I consider it a hierarchy. The older takes care of the younger, the powerful protects the powerless. Teaches respect for real authority, not fake or corrupt authority.
It’s also the only way to take care of 5+ kids without a village of extended uncles and aunts overwatching the kiddies.
Video recording in the old days was annoying and cumbersome. Now a days, if you have a cell phone, you got a camera.
So recording people is now easier than taking pictures back in the day. A generational issue, perhaps.
For pretty much the first time ever on this blog I found some of the comments above a little disturbing.
London Trader,
Agreed, except it’s not the first time ever for me.
There is always a certain percentage of disturbing comments. I usually don’t delete them unless they are over the top.
But when I went to this video on YouTube, I noticed a lot of similar comments, mostly taking the form of assumptions that this woman is unmarried and/or that her kids have been exposed to various boyfriends of hers and/or sexual shenanigans or that she’s on welfare.
The film didn’t conjure up anything like that at all, and I don’t see any evidence for it either. People are making assumptions on the basis of race and statistics—i.e. the rate of illegitimacy and/or welfare is higher in the black population. Those statistics are true, but they have nothing to do with this particular woman and these children.
You know, “it’s exasperating!” LOL. Cute and precocious.
Conservatives seem to have this contrarian streak where they say or do un-PC or provocative things as if to say, “I dare you to call me … racist, stuuuupid, troglodyte”, as if such a criticism would demonstrate the shallowness of the critic rather than the truth of the criticism. Think GWB persisting to use “noocular” when he knows better or Sarah Palin playing to type.
I continue to maintain that liberals as a group are far more racist than conservatives, and leftists certainly are. The shock of that discovery was one of the things that propelled my own political change.
I know kids, until this year I worked as a volunteer in an elementary school for 10 years, we raised 3 kids, and we have 5 and soon to be 6 grandchildren. Either this 7 year old is the next Tesla or this was staged.
parker:
You don’t know all kids.
As I said, I know quite a few kids who at that age (and even younger) were fully capable of that sort of conversation all on their own.
My impression is that they’re part of a married, comfortably middle class family. Mom says “we” aren’t going to get rid of you, etc. Note also her educated tones, and the nice, size-appropiate car seats.
/Sherlock off
A debate about the audio & video evidence presented, rather than a PC “consensus”, is what this is all about. That Neo doesn’t like it (“parker-you don’t know all kids”) is troubling. No one knows ALL kids, not even Neo. I see a resemblance to leftist reasoning here. Those of us who do not like modern black culture and are somewhat suspicious of it are, well, dubious of the motives and truth behind the vid; we have been lied to too much.
The black frame around the video that I clicked on had vulgar obscene language on it. No one has said anything about that…is the fault in my computer? I think not. More PC pretending that ugliness is not seen.
Don Carlos:
Of course I don’t know all kids. I just need to know kids who are an exception to parker’s generalization to say he’s wrong in his generalization. My saying he doesn’t know all kids means he doesn’t know the exceptions to his generalization, which exist. I know they exist because I know some.
In that argument, race doesn’t even enter into it. And there’s no similarity to leftist reasoning. It is merely logic.
I have no idea about the facts behind this video. But I see no reason whatsoever to doubt it’s for real. I know quite a few kids like that, and this kid seems to me to be speaking spontaneously, for himself.
Golly, Gee, what I said: “A debate about the audio & video evidence presented, rather than a PC “consensus”, is what this is all about.”
Prosecution vs. Defense. Seems like a hung jury. And minds are difficult things to change, no?
Don Carlos:
And we’re having the debate. So what’s your beef?
I say it should be a directed verdict, because the prosecution has presented no evidence. And I’m merely pointing out why it wasn’t necessary for me to have known all children, or for parker to have known all children, for me to come to the conclusion that he didn’t know enough children to know that there are plenty of kids like the child in the video.
People feel guilt about all the years of the 21st century that they sat around not realizing the evil around them. But inquisition level passion doesn’t really atone for much of anything, on the internet.
Like I said, the audio and video data are the evidence. The commenters here serve either on the prosecution or defense sides in interpreting the evidence before an off-stage jury. Are you the judge, favoring a directed verdict, Neo?
Don Carlos:
Yes, it is my opinion that the commenters serving as the prosecution have failed to present any evidence whatsoever to support their case. If it were a court and were the defense, I’d move for a directed verdict of not guilty. And if I were the judge, I’d grant it.