Kind of like a Bermuda Triangle for Hellparents...

We were at a science museum and they had a set of exhibits about animation (as in making cartoons). In one area, there were cameras and animation tables so that kids could make their own short stop-motion animations.

A woman with two boys came up to the exhibit. The woman read the instructions and told her boys, "These don't do anything, you have to do all the work yourself."

Undeterred, the kids wanted to give it a try anyway, and they made a short animation. They showed their mom what they had made and her only comment was, "Was that really worth your time? Let's go find something that actually does something."

This was pretty bad. And at the same time this was going on, a kid at another station in the same exhibit was showing his mom an animation she'd made. Apparently the kid didn't get her hand completely out of the frame for one shot, because the mom's reaction to her effort was, "I saw your hand! I saw your hand!" How's that for positive reinforcement?

So tell me, is this exhibit a Hellparent magnet or what?