My kids are in thier 30s. They were raised with crying is good and very normal. They were also shown how to CONTROL it. Pain, disappointment, heartbreak, etc, all good reasons to cry. That's not the point im making. So when my son didn't make the cut to sail his first Sydney to Hobart he didn't cry, he got more sailing hours to make the teams for the next three years. When my eldest was killed he cried plenty. He didn't cry when his car broke but did when his girlfriend broke up with him. Maturity is raising your son to be an ADULT, not a kid who cries at EVERY disappointed in life. I have have chronic depression, and it ain't good to cry at everything you struggle with. Solutions are more difficult to find if you let yourself get dragged into a cycle of crying when s**t don't go your way. Don't preach pain and tears, I know all about that. I also know, as an adult, I have to control it to be able to function in the world. The reality is crying at everything just teaches you to be sad.

And I can guarantee teaching your child to cry at everything HE doesn't get will leave him without friends. Why do you think he didn't tell his friends? But got the whole oh your poor baby from gf, mom and sis. Kids these days are all about selfish pity. That's what this fuckn post is. You all condemn this dad and he literally did nothing wrong. You are all saying it's ok to condemn this dad and glorify this damn kid. I got grandkids a couple of years younger than this boy and I see the world they are growing up in. My daughter doesn't let her girl get away with using tears as an excuse to get out of everything she doesn't want to do or doesn't get. When she falls down, she gets the f**k up instead of sitting in ball and crying. Teaching kids it's ok to cry at every disappointment teaches unhealthy coping skills.

Do you pass one whole day crying if you are not in the sport team you wanted? How long do you pass crying when your toy breaks? What about if you miss one episode of your soap opera? If your dish is not as you wished? C'mon: mature!

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But this isn't about grief, pain or empathy. It's about selfish pity and the amount of "thumbs up" this kid gets. And everyone panders to it.

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Can you imagine the results if the crew of Apollo 13 just cried when things went wrong? Good thing that they were taught to man up when faced with adversity or we’d have been saluting their lost souls. Kids today are not being taught how to survive... we have a generation of whiners instead...

@Truthsayer: just turn the genders around. So if the crew of Apollo 13 had been women, had they bursts into tears and died? Not whining, working hard, keeping emotions at bay when it counts, being concentrated...this is no domain of men. So is crying no domain of women. You mistake the concepts of being focussed on a task and of not giving up despite adversity with the concept of generally disallowing emotion.

Regarding astronauts: they have to pass difficult tests in order to get hired, then they get extensive training. There's a huge distinction between panicking in a dangerous situation (and no tears needed for that) and crying in one's room where there's no immediate danger (except from dogmatic types). A number of commenters have pointed out that they do cry in some situations, but are tough as nails in others.

You're whining at lot, @Truthsayer. Just sayin'.....

You are judging this man's parenting on one minor incident. " This dad sucks at parenting" There is no plain and simple about it. You are his judge jury and executioner. Same as alot of the posts here from people who are not parents. Kids are in therapy because they are raising themselves because parents are not ALLOWED any input without being DESCRIMINATED against. Children are teaching children how parents should be doing it. Get on tiktok and see how many kids on there are crying in a camera because they had thier device taken for not doing homework or helping out around the house. Kids telling kids thier parents are toxic because they don't get thier way. Thousands and thousands of them, each with comments slamming parenting that is done right, but not in the eyes of spoiled entitled kids.

Yeah and kids- kids aren’t in therapy Bc there parents are total assholes and put them down by saying s**t like this “dad” or anything. Kids that raise themselves might actually have a tad more self esteem Bc they wouldn’t have parents constantly telling them what they do/ who they are isnt good enough. It’s all about perspective and ig you have yours but in mine the kid deserves some sympathy. I’m also a soccer player and I’m VERY passionate about it (as it seem the guy is) and if I didn’t make the team I would be devastated. When you’re passionate about something you try hard to get it and when you don’t it kinda hurts. Not to mention most teens (including myself) suffer depression so something like this can cause someone to get inside there own head (which according to the article he did) so I don’t blame him for crying. Good day.

Wow, kids bitching about parents, that's.... nothing new. Has happened trhoughout history. And he didn't cry at "every fuckn thing", but at something he felt was very important to him and had, by his account, worked hard for. I pity any children you have, but recommend you get counseling, b/c your rage at the idea children are *PEOPLE* is really quite unnerving.

Yeah, kids bitching about parents. Use to be kids bitched to a mate, now they have brave adults like you to justify and stand up on platforms. This kid put the same post on Reddit, tiktok, Facebook, Snapchat etc. ALL for ATTENTION and "likes" My kids are in thier 30s very well adjusted adults who cry at normal things and not just for pity. Dare judge my parenting like you've done to this dad. F**k you Leo you're just an over emotional adult who has never really had to deal with issues like we have, think you know everything? Bury a your kid just months after he's married and know what real tears are, real grief. Again, f**k you.

@ Chaos&Roses. Well you were judging the kids emotional state on one incident. You call it a minor incident. This could have been a dream this kid has worked for his whole life and Dad just shut him down like it was some sort of novelty thing. Sorry, but that to me constitutes AH. You don't have to coddle kids, but it was unnecessary for his Dad to make the comments he did. It's ok to just say "I'm sorry for you" and leave the room. Why was the rest of it necessary. And if you are going to claim that parents are being DISCRIMINATED against by people like me, you could at least learn to spell it right.....

It's too easy for people to band together and fight for someone's cause while destroying another's. The ugly judgements on this dad is so fuckn typical these days. It's on every platform . Y'all a lynch mob. Look in your own backyards and tell me if you would want this to be you because you said one phrase out of turn. Everyone on here is an asshole for this kind of ugly hateful behaviour