Her Daughter Asked For $4 To Pay For Another Classmate’s Field Trip Fee, But She Declined To Pay And Isn’t Sure If She Made The Right Decision
This woman has a 10-year-old daughter who is in fourth grade. And apparently, her daughter has a heart of gold which she usually adores most days.
More recently, though, her daughter asked her for $4 out of the blue while they were driving to school.
She was caught off guard and asked if her daughter needed the cash for snack money. But, to her surprise, her daughter was actually requesting the money for a pretty selfless act.
Apparently, her daughter had a friend who needed the money for their class field trip the following week. And since that was the last day to hand in the funds, her daughter wanted to help the other little girl out.
While she thought that was very nice, she decided to tell her daughter that the little girl’s parents would pay for the trip if her friend was allowed to go.
But then, she learned there were some more parts to the story. First, her daughter told her that her friend’s mom was a nurse who was always gone before her friend woke up.
At that point, though, she pointed out how the friend’s mom must see their daughter at other times throughout the day.
After that, the truth finally came out. Apparently, her daughter revealed how her friend’s mom told her friend that if they wanted to go on the trip, they would have to earn the $4 by themselves.
“My heartstrings were pulled, and I almost handed it to her because it’s only $4,” she admitted.
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However, she ended up rethinking her decision on the spot. She realized that her daughter’s friend was new to the town– meaning that she had never met the little girl or the little girl’s mom.
Plus, even though she wants her daughter to be the kind of person who helps out people in need, she also wants to teach her daughter boundaries.
“I also don’t want her to be taken advantage of and always giving to those who have the means,” she explained.
She does realize that it’s impossible to know someone else’s actual situation. But, she had a feeling that the friend’s mother had the money but just did not want to give it to her daughter’s friend without teaching the little girl that “life isn’t always going to give you what you want for free.”
So, she wound up not giving her daughter the $4 because she didn’t want to cross any boundaries.
“Having never met the mom, I didn’t want my first impression from her to be that I’m an overstepper. I could have cared less about the $4,” she said.
Still, ever since she declined to hand over the money for her daughter’s friend, she has been left wondering whether that was the right thing to do or not.
Were her daughter’s intentions pure? Do you think she did the right thing by trying not to intrude on the other mom’s decision? Or should she have paid the $4? Could she reach out to her daughter’s teacher to see if she could help out in a different way?
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