if you’re a parent on planning on being one in the future, please don’t follow the example of this guy. This is how not to treat your valued offspring. Ever.

The family has gone to watch a baseball game, and a foul ball is heading their way. The dad thinks this is the perfect opportunity to let his young daughter catch her first baseball, and lifts her up to get her in position.

But wait, trust his daughter to catch a baseball coming at her at speed? I don’t think so. Instead, he drops her like a hot potato and attempts (and fails) to claim the baseball for himself.

She could have been badly injured if she’s fallen badly or her head had hit something on the way down. In which case the dad is one lucky SOB. It may take his daughter a while to forgive him though.