Mother Wants To Know If She's In The Wrong For Punishing Her Son
Parenting is without a doubt extremely hard, and confusing, and sometimes we might need a little advice to help us make the best decisions for ourselves and our families. With that being said, we see a lot of parenting posts on the AITA Reddit threads as most parents look for a second opinion or more advice.
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The AITA thread on Reddit is one of the best threads because we get to see people asking for advice, sharing their life, and we also get to see many different perspectives on a situation. Most people come to the AITA thread to figure out if they're in the wrong or not for a particular situation.
If you're someone who loves to help give advice or read the advice then you're going to love this thread especially when it comes to parenting advice. This mom came to Reddit to ask whether or not she overreacted when it came to the punishment she gave her son.
Sometimes coming to the internet for advice on parents can be bad, but it can also be beneficial. In this case, people had a lot to say, but ultimately the punishment is up to the parent. Let's dive in and take a look at this story and what people had to say in reaction to it.
Here's the story and what happened with the laptop.
Asking for someone to own up to it is completely acceptable, we agree.
It looks like this user had a bit of a question for OP in order to gain more insight.
It's just called parenting and sometimes it sucks, but has to be done.
Someone needs to take responsibility and that's all this mom wants.
They're all adults so they should act like adults.
I agree that she handled it very well and better than a lot would have.
This is an important lesson that she can teach her son and his friends.
The consequences seem quite fair to me based on their behavior.
I feel like most parents would ask for whoever did it to pay up, or find some other way to pay.
I agree that she basically hasn't really punished him at all.
He can't expect nothing to happen in response to this. He's going to get some form of consequences.
Letting them know can help them to open up about who did ti and what happened.
This punishment is the actual opposite of harsh. The kid should feel thankful that this is all she did.
Clearly they need to understand boundaries and what they should be doing when his mom isn't around.
Exactly, nobody can blame her for reacting the way that she did.
This is the easiest punishment, plus if they'd fess up then it wouldn't be an issue.
I think it's common for parents to make them pay for the broken device or work it off.
This situation isn't like any of the ones I've heard before because I would've never thought someone would call this too harsh of a punishment for a broken laptop. Parenting is hard, but I think we can all agree that OP made the best decision or if anything she could've punished them harsher than she did.