In many cases it is the parents rather than the children who are more excited. For parents watching their children react to the news and squeal out in pleasure when presented with an exciting vacation opportunity is plenty reward.
An Atlanta-based couple were so excited about planning a Disney World holiday for their children that they decided to break the news to them with a handycam handy to tape what they were expecting would be over the top reactions.
They're eldest, a girl aged 6, went through the five stages of trauma – disbelief, denial, anger, rejection, and finally acceptance. The video camera captured the first three.
Not only didn't the kids jump for joy but they started crying when they found their voice and realised that their parents weren't joking, insisting that they would rather spend their vacation in Chattanooga!
Not their fault really, because they had enjoyed annual excursions to Chattanooga for holidays and were very partial to the aquarium and the Chattanooga children's museum. And for the fact that the parents were building up their Chattanooga dreams in the expected of runaway emotions when they finally broke news of their real holiday destination the night before.
Below is the footage of the surprise gone woefully wrong.
The good news is that the children did eventually warm up to the idea of a Disney vacation and had a great time.
Which only goes to show that you never know with children.
In a later development the dad sent the video to the Chattanooga visitors bureau because he thought “they'd get a kick out of it.”
Naturally the Chattanooga Convention and Visitors Bureau in Tennessee loved the tape. They started sharing it and pretty soon the tape was being shown on TV stations nationwide. Moreover the footage has logged up over 70,000 hits on YouTube.
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