Katharina Buczek
Afterward, though, her nephew then proceeded to essentially rank everyone else’s gifts. First, he told her mother– his grandmother– that her board game gift was bad. So, Eric claimed not to love his grandma anymore!
Then, her nephew turned to one of his friends and said that next year, the friend wouldn’t be invited back because his gift– a set of dinosaur figurines– was also bad!
She was appalled by her nephew’s statements and really thought her sister or brother-in-law would step in to say something. To her surprise again, though, they just stood there and laughed along!
So, she took matters into her own hands and decided to tell Eric that he was not supposed to say such rude things about his birthday gifts. She also pointed out how guests buy what they can, and Eric should be grateful for what he received.
At that point, though, her nephew just doubled down and claimed he didn’t understand why he needed to love people who don’t buy him nice gifts.
“I genuinely can’t believe my sister is teaching this [stuff] to her son,” she vented.
Her brother-in-law still agreed with his son, though, and said to Eric, “Yeah, they should give you all the best.”
She was not going to let the situation go, though, and reiterated to Eric how a person’s worth is not tied to the size or cost of presents they purchase. She also decided to tell Eric that if he really believed that, then she would not keep buying her nephew gifts anymore.
After she put her foot down, Eric apparently began to cry. Then, her sister told her off for making her nephew upset at his own party.
Thankfully, though, most of her family and even some of her sister’s in-laws were on her side– agreeing that it was really bad to teach children such ungratefulness.
And since her mom was pretty upset, too, they both wound up leaving afterward.
