Her Niece Threw A Major Fit At Her Birthday Party After Not Receiving A New Cell Phone, So She Told Her Niece The World Doesn’t Revolve Around Her
This woman’s niece has always been the “golden child” in her family. Everyone has always loved and gushed over her niece, and she never really had a problem with it since she barely talked to her niece.
Nowadays, though, she thinks that her niece is a “spoiled brat” who yells and throws a big tantrum if she doesn’t get her way.
However, her niece’s fourteenth birthday recently passed, and she received an invite to a birthday celebration. So, she decided to go anyway, and there were a ton of people there– all bringing a bunch of gifts for her niece.
Yet, rather than just being thankful, her niece wound up screaming about not receiving a new cell phone while opening up all of the presents.
Apparently, her niece was seriously freaking out– yelling at her brother-in-law, who is her niece’s dad.
“He tried to calm my niece down, but she kicked and screamed and went as far as popping her balloons,” she recalled.
That’s why her sister understandably got really frustrated and began reprimanding her niece. But the rest of the guests wound up just feeling bad for the teen and started comforting her niece even more.
Her niece also claimed that if she didn’t get what she wanted– a cell phone– for her birthday, then she would actually run away.
At that point, her sister and brother-in-law were still having a hard time dealing with the temper tantrum, and she was disgusted by what was happening. So, she stepped in and told her niece off.
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“You’re lucky they even bought you anything. You’re spoiled and stuck up,” she told her niece.
“And if anything, they shouldn’t have bought you anything at all. You’re 14-years-old. Grow up. The world doesn’t revolve around you.”
Well, while it might have felt good to put her niece in her place, the feeling didn’t last long– because her niece just started crying, and everyone in her family began telling her that she was in the wrong.
A few days later, her sister even claimed that her niece would have to attend therapy over the incident. So, everyone in her family has been pushing them to apologize.
She really doesn’t want to, though, because she thinks her niece needs to be told “no.”
“The main reason I was very mad was because this happens a lot. If my niece doesn’t get her way, she screams, cries, and breaks things,” she reasoned.
Nonetheless, her sister has actually sent her niece to four therapy sessions ever since the birthday party incident. And now, with her family angry with her, she’s been left wondering if telling her niece off was really the wrong thing to do.
Does it sound like her niece really is bratty? Was she out of line for talking to her niece like that, or did someone have to put the teen in her place? What would you have done if you’d been in her shoes?
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