Katharina Buczek
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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