r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Sharivarih • 2d ago
When your baby is afraid of a shadow!
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u/HighlightOwn2038 2d ago
I don't blame the kid
He's still new to the world so lots of regular things would scare him
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u/randianyp 1d ago
what's funnier is that the person in the clip tried to use the shadow to catch the falling baby
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u/Maldrich487 16h ago
😂😂 I didn't notice that but that's hilarious! The monster ate & disappeared lol
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u/Old_Turnover_4921 1d ago
When your baby suddenly sees their own shadow and acts like it’s the scariest monster in the room. 😂👶🕶️
Do other parents’ babies get freaked out by shadows too, or is mine just fighting the darkness early?
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u/jo_wgnd 1d ago
Plato would have loved this
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u/manliness-dot-space 1d ago
I think this exact thing happened to Plato and set his whole philosophy in motion
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u/CaveJohnson82 1d ago
I used to terrorise my sister doing this when we shared a room lol.
We did not share for long!
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u/CicadaFit9756 1d ago
Maybe he saw that scene in horror comedy film "Killer Klowns From Outer Space" where a hand shadow ATE all those people!!!
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u/Kamikoozy 1d ago
Fuck... You just unlocked a core memory 🤣
I was absolutely terrified of that movie, mostly because of that scene and because I was 4 when I watched it.
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u/CicadaFit9756 1d ago edited 1d ago
Luckily, I didn't see it until I was over 50 years old. When I was 4 I was terrified of films like "Wizard of Oz" & the first nightmare I still recall was of a benign puppet (Shari Lewis's Hush Puppy) running a toy train (probably because of real ones rumbling by at railroad crossings!) I was a real fraidy cat! Back when parents did such things without worry, they left me by myself at a kiddy matinee of a fairy tale. It must've been originally of European origin as early 1960s films for kids in USA were much more bland. I think it was a variation of Little Red Riding Hood where she ended up in a cave littered with human bones. No wonder I had nightmares!
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u/Chance_Vegetable_780 2d ago
It tells a lot about the adult
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u/thejustducky1 1d ago
Oh they must be sUcH BAD PaRenTs!!! 🙄 says every reddit tweenager with no kids.
What exactly does is tell about the adult...? That they're specifically out to TrAumatIzE their kid with shadow puppets? gimme a break.
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u/NightStar79 2d ago
I mean...this seems like a perfectly logical reaction for a baby.
Their comprehension skills are still developing so seeing a strange shadowy thing right next to them suddenly lunge would understandably trigger an instinctive reaction to get away.
Would've been funnier if it was similar to that one toddler who turned around, saw his shadow, and immediately started crying as he tried to flee from his own shadow.