She Took Her Son Trick-Or-Treating And She’s Telling The Internet That He Was So Rude, She Made Him Pass Out His Own Candy To Other Kids
A mom took her 9-year-old son trick-or-treating yesterday for Halloween, as she does every year on the 31st of October.
Everything was fine, but then they walked up to one house, and the owners had placed a candy bowl on their porch.
A sign on the bowl indicated to please only take 2 pieces of candy. Her son ignored the sign, stuck his hand in the bowl, and picked up an entire handful; around three times the amount of candy that the sign said.
She immediately had her son return the extra pieces of candy to the bowl, and she told him that if he took all of the candy there would be nothing for the kids that were trick-or-treating after him.
“From then on he had an attitude,” she explained, “and the last straw was when I told him to stop grabbing so much candy from people and he screamed “No!”
“We had only been out for about an hour so I took him right on home. Took his candy bag, dumped it in a bowl, and told him to come sit outside on the porch with me.”
“He objected of course, as kids came by and took handfuls of his candy. He complained they were taking too much and I told him that he shouldn’t have done the same then.”
Her husband got home from work later that night, to find that their son was sobbing in his bedroom.
Her husband wondered what was going on, so she filled him in. After she finished telling him what happened, her husband accused her of being mean to force their son to give out his candy to other children all over the fact that he was grabbing more candy than he was supposed to.
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She maintains that she was teaching him a lesson on greed, but her husband thought she should have let it go.
Here’s what the internet had to say.
“The outbursts are what get me. When he screamed no, more specifically.”
“It sounds to me like a test of boundaries, as if he knew perfectly well what was expected of him and purposefully crossed the line in order to see if his behavior would be corrected.”
“And you did that. He learned a lesson when he became resentful that other kids were taking too much, that’s what his behavior looks like but from the view of others.”
“I wish more parents would find ways to really teach their selfish kids why that’s not O.K. I’ll bet this is a lesson that he’ll never forget.”
“Telling him he can’t ever go trick-or-treating again, would have been cruel. It’s important for children to learn that being greedy hurts others.”
“Safe to say, hopefully, he’s learned now. He was told multiple times to stop, and then had a little temper tantrum because of it.”
“Way to be a good parent and teach your kid to be considerate of others and respect rules. He’s not going to be scarred from this, at the end of the day it’s just free candy in a world of overabundance and it’s not like he’ll never get candy again, it’s a hard lesson but hopefully, a lesson learned.”
“When my son was 9 he got caught shoplifting in a coffee shop gift store. After he returned the item and apologized. His punishment was to help me With yard work.”
“I told him I would pay him. After we were done I gave him $20 for his work. Then I took it from him.”
“When he got upset I explained to him that how he felt right then was what the person he stole from felt. Sometimes putting your child in the shoes of the person they had wronged is the lesson they need to learn. Actions have consequences.”
You can see the rest of what the internet had to say to her here.
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