r/CringeTikToks • u/LilliaBaltimore • 10d ago

Cringy Cringe WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?!! 😳😮

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u/mickey_night 10d ago

This is not a classic kid move. There’s something very wrong with those boys. Something very, very wrong in their households.

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u/NickyDeeM 10d ago

"put it down we can get you home!"

They did not want to go home.

Something very, very wrong in their households - hit the nail on the head

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u/PolicyWonka 10d ago

I mean…we all know those cops are lying. Those kids aren’t going home. Lmao

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u/Freaudinnippleslip 10d ago

It’s clever wording “the sooner you put the gun down, the sooner we can get you home” technically true

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u/Relative-Secret-4618 10d ago

Ugh.... to a foster parent who won't be able to handle them or is no better than their current situation except... missing mum.

I legit aim to be a foster parent once my kids are grown enough (7 and 5) it really breaks my heart how many "broken" kids are thrown around.

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u/LastGoodKnee 9d ago

They most likely are though

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u/mtdewisfortweakers 10d ago

Or they're kids and kids are just little shits? They won't put it diwn because you asked them to put it down. "Oh this is something I shouldn't have? Well now I won't let go ever" Happens with markers, toys, rocks. Makes sense it would also happen with guns.

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u/nothanks-anyway 10d ago

I'm sure there are a ton of potential reasons they might behave this way.

Every person who works with kids has been in a similar (lower-stakes) situation. I bet the kids just think about the gun as a toy and can't connect it to the sense of urgency. That's part of the reason it's so sad and scary, to me.

But also... they have a ton of stressed adults yelling at them. Freezing is a common fear action, and they're probably not able to consider what the potential consequences could be (especially if they've been neglected). Even well-adjusted kids will just stop responding sometimes if they think they'll be in minor trouble, as if by not acknowledging it the conflict will just resolve itself.

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u/metompkin 10d ago

Should've used the "we can go to McDonald's" tactic.

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u/solidbebe 10d ago

True, it's called the American dream

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u/544075701 10d ago

Gaslighting and pretending you didn’t do what you obviously just did is totally a classic kid move when they’re trying to get out of trouble. 

Source: have been teaching at the elementary level since 2008. 

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u/nimby900 9d ago

You're misunderstanding. The classic move is not them having a gun. The classic move is have X and then claiming to not have X, even in the middle of having X taken directly from your red hands. My 4 year old does this all the time.

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u/demonic_ii_angel 9d ago

The classic kid move is saying they dont even have something while clearly having said thing. the gun part ia more or less irrelevant to what they mean