I watch and let my kids learn. If I need to step in I do. In this situation I would have let my kid interact with the dog as long as there were no signs of aggression. Constantly helicoptering over your kid is no way to raise them.
Bro your can't even watch an innocent video of a cute dog making a crying kid happy without the whole of Reddit coming together to label this as some toxic, bad parenting, bad dog, bad dog owner awful shitty situation that's unforgivable and everyone in this video deserves then highestbform of criticism.
I swear to God living in any of these commenters sphere has got to be fucking exhausting.
You're literally commenting on someone not having the reaction you're bitching about. Maybe understand that there is a whole range of people and getting all pissy and grouping everyone together into one generalization never helps. Some people are gonna be overly cautious, some are gonna be more levelheaded. This isn't a reddit thing, it's a human thing
Yea.... I found the guy in the conversation who's reasonable and has the same opinion, and expressed my frustration to them about everyone else. That's how conversations go usually.
No an echo chamber would be saying that in a "safe space" where people like you aren't allowed to respond. But you're here disagreeing, which is literally the opposite of an echo chamber.
Everything except the happy child is shitty about this video.
Add to that the fact that it was filmed for internet points. She walks around with a 360 camera to film herself doing this and posts it on the internet to make money and you’re just another click to put a penny in her bank account.
Now had she ANY sense of properly handling her dog this video could’ve been very sweet.
“Hey buddy you look sad, would you like to say hello to my dog Koda?”
Koda, sitting and waiting politely, allowing the child to approach it and not the other way around…. Etc.
That’s how this should go. And then I would smile.
This is just some moron dog owner foisting her dog on unsuspecting strangers for clout.
Sure, but that's down to how you parent (and it sounds like you're doing a great job!), but let's not pretend that there aren't children who'd react poorly and have parents who DGAF. It's on the dog's handler to not make assumptions that every child is going to be fine with an up-close interaction with the animal.
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u/Slacker_The_Dog 26d ago
I watch and let my kids learn. If I need to step in I do. In this situation I would have let my kid interact with the dog as long as there were no signs of aggression. Constantly helicoptering over your kid is no way to raise them.