[sdrothrock]

https://youtu.be/iO6qIM2WO6k?t=185

https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sad_Story_of_Henry

This particular episode horrifies me; I feel like kids will grow up and as adults, look back on this and wonder how they didn't realize how dark it was, much like I do with some parts of things like The Brave Little Toaster.

[NeedMoreTea]

Yet entire generations of Brits have grown up reading that story, apparently unconcerned, as it's one of the very early ones.

Edit: Oh, it's actually from the very first book published 1945.

[Angostura]

It reads to me me like wish fulfilment for parents of stubborn toddlers :)

...speaking as a father who used to take a book with me to read when my daughter used to throw herself to the ground and refuse to walk any further.

[jacobush]

Wow... that’s really somber

[blattimwind]

The clue is at the end

"But I think he deserved his punishment. Don't you?"

[jacobush]

I don’t, no. Solitary confinement for life is cruel and unusual punishment. Plus some public ridicule, too.