All too many times we see parents online boasting about how they discipline their children.
Sometimes parents can offer some good insights, but other times it’s basically a form of public shaming, or worse, abuse.
Cierra Brittany Forney, a mother from Braselton, Georgia explained how she taught her son a lesson rather than just punish him for his behavior.
Her teenage son began to lose sight of how lucky he is for the things he has in his life and Forney wasn’t about to let that all go unchecked.
So she knew he needed to learn a lesson.
“So lately, my 13-year-old son had been acting a little… entitled. Acting like he’s too good to shop at Wal-Mart or making snarky comments about kids at school who shop at the goodwill and quite a few other things,” Forney explained on Facebook.
“I don’t tolerate that. Today, he took his own $20 to the Goodwill to buy clothes to wear the entire week to school. Whatever he found is what he would have to wear.”
Let’s just say that it was a humbling experience for the teen.
“He isn’t happy and shed a few tears but I firmly believe in 15 years he will look back and laugh at the day his Mom made him shop at Goodwill,”Forney explains. “I want to teach my kids that money isn’t everything and if you have to degrade other people because of where they shop, then you too will shop there. Side note, I love the Goodwill!”
Forney says she was glad that her son was able to learn a “valuable lesson.”
“My son learned a valuable lesson from this and I believe it is just another story we can add to our lives memory to look back on. I didn’t do this to punish him. It wasn’t to show him that Goodwill isn’t a good place to shop,” Forney explained in a follow-up post.
“I did this to teach him that money and name brands don’t change who we are as people. He can still be the amazing, adorable, loved kid that he is WITHOUT the expensive stores!”
She also took responsibility for her son’s actions.
Forney’s original post went viral and was shared more than 275,000 times.
“I do realize that we are partly to blame for his expectancy of always having name brands. My husband and myself had our son when we were VERY young. We always strived to give him all the things we never had and because of that, he has grown to expect these things,” Forney said.
She says the intention of her post was not to publically shame her son.
“All the positive feedback and comments have brought me to tears and so have all the negative ones. All that matters is my son is completely 100 percent okay with what happened,” Forney said. “My son has learned a valuable lesson from this AND my son is rockin’ his button up shirt he bought from the Goodwill with PRIDE today!!”
You can see her original post below.
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