A mother’s Facebook post went viral, as she publicly shamed her son for bullying the new student at his school. Within only a few days, the post was shared over 50,000 times, while it also received thousands of comments.
You can read her message below.
Terry Day Evans
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 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 realize 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 mum.
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.
Some criticized the mother for publicly shaming her son, while others applauded her actions. After her post went viral, she made a follow-up post that responded to the criticism, in which she mentioned: “…I stand wholly by his punishment.”
Do you this mother’s actions were justified? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section.
Source: Dailyheadline
Maybe if we all stood together and called out all instances of this it might stop and we can stop making excuses for unkind, threatening bullying behaviours.
ReplyDeleteI I wonder where he got the bullying tactics?
ReplyDeleteJust a spur of the moment brain snap on behalf of a 12 year old brain...perhaps she said something. Mum isn't a bully she's guiding him and standing up for the victim plus she hasn't physically abused him as a punishment.
DeleteKids don’t listen they cannot be punished in school they cannot be punished at home all rights for adults to reprimand children for wrong doing have been removed and now they think they have the right to do what they want as and when they want to without consequences. Every action good or bad has a consequence and bullies think nothing of sharing their bullying videos on line so all I can say is good on you mum there should be more like you. The only thing kids take notice of and use constantly is social media so if their only punishment is through the power of the new social media addiction so be it.....the days of a clip round the ear by a parent teacher or policeman have gone...now classed as assault ...!! But it was private punishment between the offender and parents school or other authority. They have brought punishment and humiliation by social media upon themselves ....far worse than a clip round the ear which could not be seen by future employers ...now that’s something they don’t think about....imagine going to an interview 5 yrs after posting your bullying /fight video ....your employer praises your cv then runs your social media bullying post and asks you to identify the bully !!! Consequences of ones actions follow you for life and I say again WELL DONE to that mum
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