Dad sparks backlash with \u2018cruel\u2019 punishment for misbehaving kids at Christmas TIKTOK: bennyg7070A dad left TikTok viewers divided after sharing his \u2018cruel\u2019 trick to ensure kids are well-behaved during the holidays. In a viral clip with 24.2 million views, TikTok user BennyG7070 recorded a lit fireplace, with presents dotted around the room in festive wrapping paper. \u201cWith Christmas approaching, here is a top tip for parents,\u201d he said, before revealing his rather controversial method of making sure his children behave. \u201cWrap up some empty boxes and pretend that they are presents. Then each time one of those little f**kers misbehaves, chuck one onto the fire,\u201d he explained. The video concluded with the dad grabbing an empty, neatly wrapped Christmas present, and throwing it straight into the roaring fire. \u201cChristmas is coming, and here is a sure fire way to ensure your little darlings behaving proper,\u201d he captioned the 16-second clip. Dad slammed for \u2018cruel\u2019 way to ensure kids behave at Christmas TikTok users in the comments were divided over the hack, with many criticizing the dad, and accusing him of traumatizing his kids. \u201cHow to cause trauma to children,\u201d one critic wrote. \u201cThat\u2019s abuse,\u201d another shared. \u201cAh yes, let\u2019s start the childhood trauma early and make them hate Christmas,\u201d a third added. \u201cDon\u2019t do this, some kids can get scared for real so I wouldn\u2019t recommend,\u201d someone else said. The content creator dismissed some of the criticism, as he later commented on his own video, \u201cHi Karens!\u201d Others, however, found the controversial method hilarious, and came to the dad\u2019s defense. \u201cThat\u2019s a great idea wish I could have done that to my kids when they where younger,\u201d one parent commented, along with a laughing crying face emoji. \u201cAs a mother of three I will second this,\u201d another wrote. \u201cMy dad did this, we started to behave after this,\u201d a third said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dad sparks backlash with \u2018cruel\u2019 punishment for misbehaving kids at Christmas TIKTOK: bennyg7070A dad left TikTok viewers divided after sharing his \u2018cruel\u2019 trick to ensure kids are well-behaved during the holidays. In a viral clip with 24.2 million views, TikTok user BennyG7070 recorded a lit fireplace, with presents dotted around the room in festive wrapping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}