It’s hard to know if you’re always going to make the right decisions.
How do you know if you’re parenting your child correctly? How do you know if they’re well behaved or mannerly?
One mum’s Facebook post has gone viral this weekend after she decided to publicly shame her 12-year old son for bullying his schoolmate.
Terri Day Evans found out her son had trampled on his schoolmate’s shoes, breaking the heel and causing injury to her foot.
Rather than punish him in private, Terri wanted her son to know that she wouldn’t accept that kind of behaviour, penning a post that has gained a lot of popularity online.
According to Metro UK, the mum decided to take action, and show other parents she wasn’t prepared to sit back on this one.
With the hashtag #iwillnothaveabullyinmyhouse, Terri writes:
“Absolutely disgusted that my 12-year-old son saw fit to purposefully tread on a new girls foot at school and twist his foot with such force it broke her brand new shoes (causing the heel) to snap.
I’ll tell you something Jacob ( JustPost Rng Photos) if you so much as breath in her or anyone’s direction in a bullying manner I will personally hand you over to their parents for every demeaning chore they see fit for as long as they do… kiss goodbye to your birthday money as you will be buying the girl a new pair of shoes and a bunch of flowers! #iwillnothaveabullyinmyhouse
Update. To answer a few questions, yes my son can see it, he was tagged in it before it went viral(which I didn’t realise was going to happen) so his friends could see that his actions have consequences, he is not big, clever, hard or funny, he’s a 12 year old boy answerable to his mam.
I don’t much care who doesn’t agree with my parenting style, my son humiliated and embarrassed a girl, regardless of his reasoning (which was he didn’t expect to break the shoe he just thought she may step out of it or stumble) that little girl still cried, for anyone’s knowledge that girl may have left her old school because she was being bullied… then imagine how much worse my son’s ridiculous act would have made her feel.
So my so called embarrassing him online is a to be quite frankly nothing in comparison to the humiliation that little girl had to face walking round with a broken shoe and red eyes from crying when she is new.
Ps… of course I sat and spoke to him about his behaviour, I didn’t just tag him in a post and he read it! I am wholly confident this was a single occurrence which won’t be repeated.”
Since the post was uploaded, Terri’s tough tactic has garnered more than 54,000 likes, and has been shared more than 11,000 times, with people praising her parenting.
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