Anonymous wrote:It isn't parenting that makes teens risk adverse or risk takers. It is personality.

Brain development is such that they can be impulsive, not think about consequences, and feel invincible. They are not yet great at executive functioning.

Now if you have an anxious, rule following, perfectionist, introverted kid - you are set. But not everyone has that kid.

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Anonymous wrote:What is this game, social media challenge type thing?

Not really. It's a real life game: you are working in teams of two (usually, some schools do individuals or larger) and have assigned "targets" (other seniors). You have to spray them with a water gun to eliminate them from the game and this must be on video or with an eyewitness. You have to keep your Snapchat location on so people know where to target you. You cannot spray someone while at school and during certain events. There are sometimes added rules like "if you wear floaties today then people can't eliminate you" but then it means wearing the floaties at the gym, mall...wherever it's fair game to target you. It goes on until everyone but the winning team is out. The game can get dangerous if people do things like the kid in this video, hurt yourself chasing someone, trespass on someone's property...

I have a question about the game. Is there an implicit or explicit understanding that you should only use water guns that look very much like toy water guns? Meaning bright colors, larger than an handgun, etc. I ask because I saw a video on Instagram from a local high school senior assassin account and a kid came up to another kid on a metro platform with a water gun that was small and black. It totally resembled a small handgun to me. I felt like such an old lady spoil sport, but all I could think was what if someone looked quickly and didn’t realize that was a water gun?!!

Anonymous wrote:The boy’s parents are upset because he hopped on the back of his target’s car while it was parked in a driveway, but the girl who was his target reversed out of the driveway and drove for 5 minutes with him clinging to the car. They said she was driving so fast, he couldn’t just jump off. When she hit a bump, he flew off. EMTs responded to the 911 call about an unconscious person. The police weren’t even aware that he’d fallen off a car until his parents contacted them. They’re investigating now. The parents feel that this wasn’t merely an accident.

https://nypost.com/2025/05/08/us-news/texas-teen-isaac-leal-on-life-support-after-playing-senior-assassin-just-weeks-before-graduation/

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Anonymous wrote:What is this game, social media challenge type thing?

Not really. It's a real life game: you are working in teams of two (usually, some schools do individuals or larger) and have assigned "targets" (other seniors). You have to spray them with a water gun to eliminate them from the game and this must be on video or with an eyewitness. You have to keep your Snapchat location on so people know where to target you. You cannot spray someone while at school and during certain events. There are sometimes added rules like "if you wear floaties today then people can't eliminate you" but then it means wearing the floaties at the gym, mall...wherever it's fair game to target you. It goes on until everyone but the winning team is out. The game can get dangerous if people do things like the kid in this video, hurt yourself chasing someone, trespass on someone's property...

I have a question about the game. Is there an implicit or explicit understanding that you should only use water guns that look very much like toy water guns? Meaning bright colors, larger than an handgun, etc. I ask because I saw a video on Instagram from a local high school senior assassin account and a kid came up to another kid on a metro platform with a water gun that was small and black. It totally resembled a small handgun to me. I felt like such an old lady spoil sport, but all I could think was what if someone looked quickly and didn’t realize that was a water gun?!!

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Anonymous wrote:What is this game, social media challenge type thing?

Not really. It's a real life game: you are working in teams of two (usually, some schools do individuals or larger) and have assigned "targets" (other seniors). You have to spray them with a water gun to eliminate them from the game and this must be on video or with an eyewitness. You have to keep your Snapchat location on so people know where to target you. You cannot spray someone while at school and during certain events. There are sometimes added rules like "if you wear floaties today then people can't eliminate you" but then it means wearing the floaties at the gym, mall...wherever it's fair game to target you. It goes on until everyone but the winning team is out. The game can get dangerous if people do things like the kid in this video, hurt yourself chasing someone, trespass on someone's property...

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Anonymous wrote:FYI your judgement is likely driven by fear and and unconscious need for reassurance.

+1
People say these horrible things because it makes them believe they are doing the right thing and therefore they and their children are safe while other people who are doing wrong things are not. They cannot face the reality that everybody’s kid and every person does stupid things sometimes.

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Anonymous wrote:FYI your judgement is likely driven by fear and and unconscious need for reassurance.

Fear, yes! There is an epidemic of reckless teenage boys doing willfully dangerous things and it has to stop. This time no one else was injured but that is often not the case. Parents of boys need to DO BETTER. You can't just check out once they hit 6th grade like so many do.

An epidemic refers to something at present, no?

This is a basic of human biology.

Anonymous wrote:This time playing Senior Assassin. He decided to jump on the back of a moving car and got thrown off, receiving a severe head injury. His parents are blaming the game and the other kids rather than their own son.

https://apple.news/AmC8-LZZwRX6Ga5EaUNT1Xw

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Anonymous wrote:FYI your judgement is likely driven by fear and and unconscious need for reassurance.

Fear, yes! There is an epidemic of reckless teenage boys doing willfully dangerous things and it has to stop. This time no one else was injured but that is often not the case. Parents of boys need to DO BETTER. You can't just check out once they hit 6th grade like so many do.

My theory is that young children are so padded and overprotected by parents these days, desperately lacking adequate exposure to the physical world, that when they become teens and naturally separate from their parents, they’re abilities to assess risk and consequences are f*cked.

Blah blah blah every generation says this

You are an idiot

Every generation says this? No, they don’t. Nobody says GenX kids were padded and overprotected. Quite the opposite. We played outside all day, completely separate from adults. Our parents never knew where we were. We learned to navigate the world by living it in realtime.

Nobody says that about most previous generations, either. Maybe Boomers to a certain extent, who were a bit coddled after the horrors of WW2. But nothing like kids today.

UMC kids today grow up in tightly controlled environments orchestrated by adults—travel sports, summer camp, constant extracurriculars. There’s little opportunity to learn from benign errors either because the environment is so contrived or because there’s always an adult there to catch them.

You're arguing against yourself. Gen X was so reckless; no one was watching us, and some of us got hurt or worse. Today's kids might be insulated and you're trying to make the point that the insulation is what's causing them to get hurt. So which is it?

We're saying KIDS DO DUMB STUFF AND GET HURT SOMETIMES. It's not a "these days" or "kids today" thing.

Anonymous wrote:JFC, there is no "these days" when it comes to adolescent boys doing stupid shit. Tale as old as time, literally.

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Anonymous wrote:FYI your judgement is likely driven by fear and and unconscious need for reassurance.

Fear, yes! There is an epidemic of reckless teenage boys doing willfully dangerous things and it has to stop. This time no one else was injured but that is often not the case. Parents of boys need to DO BETTER. You can't just check out once they hit 6th grade like so many do.

My theory is that young children are so padded and overprotected by parents these days, desperately lacking adequate exposure to the physical world, that when they become teens and naturally separate from their parents, they’re abilities to assess risk and consequences are f*cked.

Blah blah blah every generation says this

You are an idiot

Every generation says this? No, they don’t. Nobody says GenX kids were padded and overprotected. Quite the opposite. We played outside all day, completely separate from adults. Our parents never knew where we were. We learned to navigate the world by living it in realtime.

Nobody says that about most previous generations, either. Maybe Boomers to a certain extent, who were a bit coddled after the horrors of WW2. But nothing like kids today.

UMC kids today grow up in tightly controlled environments orchestrated by adults—travel sports, summer camp, constant extracurriculars. There’s little opportunity to learn from benign errors either because the environment is so contrived or because there’s always an adult there to catch them.