A man couldn’t help but laugh at his 10-year-old son’s brutally honest reaction to seeing his wedding video for the first time.
From an early age, children are taught about the importance of telling the truth. However, sometimes that truth can come off as blunt to the point of rudeness.
In 2022, a study explored the judgement young children often face from adults when they exhibit blunt honesty in social situations. The research, published in the Journal of Moral Education, saw participants tasked with watching a series of videos of kids telling prosocial lies or hurtful truths that varied in their directness e.g. blunt or subtle, and whether they were polite or protective.
Participants were then asked to decide whether they would punish or reward the child featured in the video. The results revealed how the children positioned as blunt truth-tellers were judged the most negatively compared to the liars and subtle truth tellers and highlights the difficulties these young children face.
Learning to tell lies is a crucial part of a child’s social development and while it might come off as rude, being able to laugh at these awkward moments is a useful skill to have as a parent. It’s a skill Charlie Tietzer, from Aurora, Colorado, seems to have in abundance, as a video posted to his TikTok, greencolorado17, shows.
In the clip, 10-year-old Tristen can be seen watching his dad’s wedding video with him. “It was our 10 year anniversary so it was a special day,” Tietzer told Newsweek. “We were married at a vineyard in Northern California and had a picture perfect sunset.”
Tristen clearly enjoyed seeing the highlights from that special day, but he couldn’t help but make a pointed observation as he watched the video. “You both look so young there,” he told his dad, “…and not that fat.”
Tietzer couldn’t help but laugh. It’s not the first time Tristen has said something like this. “He is usually brutally honest so not surprised, just taken aback,” he said.
Tietzer had been filming Tristen’s reaction, hoping to pick up a “sweet moment” on camera. He may not have gotten that, but he felt the resulting footage was hilarious enough to share on social media.
“I thought others could relate to the brutal honesty and we like to keep a humor about ourselves,” he said.
Those instincts proved correct. At the time of writing the clip has been viewed close to 100,000 times on TikTok. “Kids never sugar coat anything,” one user wrote. “Keeping you humble,” another said with a third summing it up best with the comment: “Kids – they give, they take.”
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