Baby queen

[panthera]

wolves and cats

I lived for many years with a wolf (no, not a big dog - l.lupus, the real thing.)
She needed a lot of training and discipline as a cub. But we managed to learn all we needed without ever hitting, smacking or physically abusing her.
Everything.
The same with four cats...one of whom was a badly injured bavarian wild cat who stayed with us so long we couldn't let her go again. (She refused to ever set a foot out the door again, you argue with a 37 pound cat that she is a creature of the wild when she is howling and crawling into the furthest corner under the bed that she is really a domestic cat and the felis sylvestris was just a silly mistake by our vet. I value my face too much.
So, if these "animals" can learn discipline without violence, I daresay a human child can, too.
It would help if we had more and cheaper training courses and help for "young" parents. Children are demanding little monsters - if you don't have any help or training - or, worse, you yourself were physically abused, how can you know what to do with them?

 

[irishwashguy]

I liked what you did.Very creative!I happen to be a big Queen fan.
Ritchie

 

[peterh770]

"I didn't really like it because they needed to film upset babies to get the footage. "

Who says? Maybe someone already had the footage and just decided to do a parody of the song.

Are we saying that parents, or anyone for that matter, can no longer film upset children?

Please. This was all just done in fun.

 

[carlstock]

This may be me going a little too deep into this, but my take is this: I can see a funny side to this video that others may see, but I do not personally find it particularly funny. I am being quite honest here, and I tend to avoid such discussions.

My reasons for not finding it particularly funny compared with, say, home video footage of babies suffering minor injuries is that, with home footage, one tends to feel deeply sorry for the injured baby but knows that a parent will be on hand within a moment’s notice to comfort the baby. We do not really know how and where the babies on this website were sourced and. The babies on this website are/were real babies, but we do not know if they were comforted at all.

I cannot speak for Nick (nickuk), but I believe he is saying that he does not like to see images of babies, children or adults in distress for the purposes of entertainment.

There were concerns in the UK about an art exhibition that showed photographs of children crying, as I have said in a previous post in this thread. Yes – some can find some art in these, but I have concerns. How those children were brought to those states is not known, and it did concern some people, including me.

I am no bleeding heart liberal with a politically correct agenda – I simply wonder how some images (and other products) are sourced in these cases.

I love crazy footage of things, but I just feel a little uncomfortable with the images on this website, but I do not deny that some will find it funny; nor do I take offence or look down at those who do like it. We all have our views, and we see can decide how to express them.

 

[panthera]

my paws and whiskers a reasonable man

Hi Carl,
Better be careful - your reasonableness is showing. I am thankful for every calm, cool, collected analysis of the situation.
Personally, I do not understand the appeal of screaming babies in pictures, but I also do not share your concerns about it.

I think it is a generational thing - you grew up with political correctness and a heightened sense of "this could offend someone" and I grew up with "live and let live."
If more of your generation were as moderate as you, I think more of mine could see the value of PC and not only the overwhelming disadvantages.

 

[carlstock]

Thank you, panthera.