She Reprimanded Her Daughter’s Friend For Throwing Out A Burnt Piece Of Toast At A Sleepover, And The Little Girl’s Mom Claimed That Was Completely Unacceptable
This woman has an 8-year-old daughter who recently invited her friend, Jane, over to her house for a sleepover.
She was more than happy to host the other little girl, too, and reportedly prepared some activities for her daughter and Jane to do that evening. So, everything that night apparently went great.
But then, the following morning, her daughter and Jane woke up and insisted that they cook breakfast.
So, she said that was fine and allowed the girls to make some toast. At the same time, she focused on cooking some eggs and blending up smoothies.
It appears that her daughter and Jane must have messed with the toaster settings, though, because after they put in a slice of bread, it came out a bit burnt.
At that point, she watched as Jane commented, “Ew, what happened?” Then, before she could react, her daughter’s friend picked up the burnt toast and threw it in the trash.
“I was appalled and shocked,” she recalled.
“It’s not as much about the loss of the slice of toast as the nonchalance with which it was just tossed away that was surprising.”
Apparently, she did not grow up with a lot during her own childhood. And she had never seen anyone just toss food in the trash or do that herself.
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So, while she understood that the girls were just kids, she decided to talk to Jane about why throwing food out like that was not right.
“I explained to her that this wasn’t okay. People work hard to afford food,” she said.
Of course, her own daughter was very embarrassed during this conversation– which she thinks is understandable given her daughter’s perspective of the situation.
But, according to her, Jane actually seemed to take her comments pretty well. Then, after breakfast, she just dropped the girls off at school as usual.
Later that day, though, Jane must have informed her mother about what had happened with the toast– because she wound up receiving a pretty angry call from Jane’s mom.
Apparently, Jane’s mom claimed that her behavior was completely unacceptable and that she had no right to call out the little girl.
Jane’s mom then claimed the interaction was likely traumatic for the little girl and, according to her, did not take any accountability for Jane’s actions.
So, three people are now upset with her over the burnt toast slice conversation– her daughter, Jane, and Jane’s mother.
Quite frankly, though, she thinks the little girl’s mother completely overreacted– because apparently, she did not yell at Jane or even lecture her.
“And I didn’t expect the children to eat the toast if it was burnt. It was about the conversation and the haste to throw things away,” she vented.
Nonetheless, in the wake of the sleepover, she is now wondering whether reprimanding Jane about the burnt toast was the wrong thing to do or not.
Can you understand why she didn’t want to waste food– and wanted to teach that lesson to the girls? At the same time, was it her place to teach someone else’s child that lesson? What would you have done had she been in her shoes? Does she owe Jane’s mom an apology or vice versa?
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