General Motors is gearing up to release the all-new 2021 Cadillac Escalade in the very near future with a host of new features on deck, including things like a redesigned cabin space with a 38-inch curved OLED display. However, if it was the parent in this video calling the shots, we’d wager the new Escalade would also feature some way to get his kid off the dang roof.
Posted to YouTube last week by user John Pasha, the video appears to show a father and son in a parking lot in Montreal, Canada. The young son is on top of the family SUV, running amok as he skips up and down the roof, all while his father tries to grab him from the side of the black Cadillac Escalade.
At 21 seconds in length, the video doesn’t show how the situation is resolved, but we have a sneaking suspicion that promises of ice cream may have been involved.
While it’s definitely annoying to have a little kid scampering across the hood, roof, and windshield of your Cadillac Escalade, the father doesn’t look terribly bothered. He can be seen smirking a bit and chatting on his cellphone as the kid runs around.
Unsurprisingly, the little kid is loving his new vantage point on top of the Cadillac Escalade. When you’re three feet tall, it’s gotta be exhilarating to finally be higher up than everyone else, and the fact his dad can’t quite reach him makes the whole thing that much better.
Hopefully this little rooftop adventure didn’t ding up the Cadillac Escalade’s paint or body. But that’s always the danger with kids and cars – odds are, when the little ones are involved, the cars won’t stay pristine all that long.
It’s a cute little video, that’s for sure. Maybe the 2021 Cadillac Escalade will offer an optional side-mounted ladder “Kiddie Retrieval System” for exactly this sort of situation. We can only hope.
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I don’t advocate for *ss beatings, but maybe in this case……….but then there’s a very good chance this kid is acting out based on larger issues (see dad on cell phone through the entire clip).
This is where liberal thinking leads in raising kids.
Be good to kids, be there for kids but be the adult and parent to them by setting and enforcing behavior expectations.
They may fuss as a kid but they will thank you when they are older and a productive member of society.
@C8.R:
I agree with you mostly, but for the “liberal thinking” comment.
I’m certainly NOT to the right (nor will I probably ever be “again” after what I’ve watched for the last 3+ years now), and I’m certainly not to the far left. Personally, I feel anything/anyone too far (fill in the blank) is not healthy. Too religious? No thanks. No agnostic? Nope. Too right? No way. Too left? Nope again. I think the best way I’d describe myself would be a conservative independent or moderate Democrat. Anyhow, to blame something like this on liberal thinking is just a divisive comment. I come from a super huge totally republican part of IL and I’ve seen my share of “conservative thinking” families with kids that need a good *ss beating.
It was not a political comment but social comment.
The liberal social aspects of child raising are to their own and can apply to people of any political aspirations.
The political atmosphere has taken over in all aspects anymore and it becomes the first thing some people jump to.
My comment was more of the folks who came in the 60’s and said parenting should be hand off and you should let them just be who they are. That on,y works to a point as you still need to teach them manners, civility and right from wrong.
When you get into the political arena liberal is a whole different animal.
The greatest issue is the lack of a good solid family core. So many single parents that are struggling. It can be done but they have to work twice as hard. Then the kids with both parents but mom or dad is absent or on something and just not there for the kids.
My dad gave up smoking and drinking when I came around because his father was an alcoholic. He didn’t want me to pick up either habits from him. He wanted the cycle to stop and he accomplished it.
A politically liberal person can raise a kid right. As politics have nothing to do with it.
We have to stop projecting politics on all things conservative or liberal as it not politics that raise a kid.
Good points.
Totally irrelevant to bring up a democracy in raising kids. Apparently, the parent or guardian has no control or discipline of a small kid.
I’d whip the kids ass so bad he wouldn’t sit for a month! Teach em when their young so they don’t grow up to be punks.
Nothing cute about it. And get off the phone “Dad”. Sheesh
As I watch this video two things enter my mind . First ; how did that toddler manage to get up there in the first place ?? The only way I can figure this out is that the father foolishly put him up there in the first place . Second ; Following that line of thought , how would this father feel IF that toddler misstepped and fell off of that Caddy ?? That would most likely end up badly with someone being seriously hurt … It’s a long way down to the ground for that youngster . If that parent believes this whole incident was funny and harmless , I also think he would have a very difficult time attempting to justify this incident … To each his own , and I do not think I am being too critical. Leave the politics out of this ; I’m wondering what other readers think about this .
My grandmother let me hang on the curtain rod she had on lower window, She thought it was funny and yelled at my father for telling me to let go of it.
She said it was her house and it was ok. My dad said he is a growing boy and in a year you will have a rod laying on the floor and how will you feel about that?
Cute moments can lead to disasters of all levels. Best to teach a child what is right the first time vs reteaching them what you said was ok then and not ok now.
I do not think that is a ‘cute’ video at all!! Stupid parent must have placed him on the hood in the first place. Obviously doesn’t care about hoof prints on the hood/roof. But aside from all that, that little monster could have slipped & really hurt himself.
It really doesn’t say much for the finish on the truck though…Guarantee you the paint finish on my trucks are soooo silky smooth that little monster would not have been able to stand up!
It’s a long way down to the ground for that youngster .