I agree fully, you don’t joke about shooting kids, period.

It doesn’t matter how frustrated you are, it is just something you don’t do.

Not only that, but the frustration was misdirected toward the kids, and not the software they were using.

Why would it reset everything when closing the laptop?

This is the system working as it should.

Joking is a way to cope, though.

I love my baby dearly and would never do anything to harm her. I still regularly joke with other parents about posting a “baby for sale” sign outside my house. It helps me deal with the lack of sleep, poopsplosions, and, more recently, nipple-bites.

Humour is a reasonably mature coping method, and thought crime should never be a thing.