35 Times The Internet Decided To Teach These Ungrateful Kids A Lesson And Shamed Them Online
While different cultures celebrate the holidays in different ways, many have one thing in common. Presents! Covered in pretty paper, maybe even tied up with a bow or ribbon, it's usually not the surprise inside but the thought that matters. Yes, material possessions are nice but another person thinking of you and trying to make you smile? That's a whole lot better. To most.
Because some kids still haven't figured it out and all they care about is how expensive or how cool their gift is. Don't get me wrong, I understand that it's normal for children to occasionally feel like the world revolves around them but getting a new car and dreading it because of its color? That's just plain entitlement.
So, to remind you to remain humble and thankful, Bored Panda compiled a list of boys and girls who didn't.
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Does This Count? Stop Buying Consoles For Yourselves. My Kids Need Them For Xmas
To learn more about this type of behavior, we contacted Talya Stone, media maven who now runs digital magazines Motherhood: The Real Deal and 40 Now What.
"Sadly, I believe that gratitude and humility don't come naturally to children these days because we worship at the altar of consumerism, and children in the western world are used to having pretty much everything they want, and a lot of the time it's on-demand," Stone told Bored Panda.
"Moreover, when parents want their children to enjoy the luxuries and perhaps every comfort and opportunity they didn't have as a child without any kind of struggle or wanting for anything in the mix, unfortunately, this can be a breeding ground for ingratitude and insolence. So yes, parents these days actually need to work even harder to instill gratitude and humility in their children simply because children in this modern world have it too good."
Just Get Them What They Ask For
Strangers Won't Give My Kid AirPods Or Money? Thanks For Ruining His Christmas
Girl Asks For New 4k TV Because The One Her Parents Got Her Wasn't Good Enough
I'd break her phone and laptop and tell her to buy her own s**t!
Stone touched upon something very important. Overindulgence. The consequences of spoiling your kids aren't pretty. Research shows that it leads to self-centeredness, greed, and unwillingness to be held accountable for actions, to name just a few of the unpleasant traits seen in children and adults who got too much, too often. And the fact that we are more affluent than previous generations has a lot to do with it!
"It's important for parents to teach [their kids] basic principles that can help to counteract the overindulgence as well as trying not to overindulge them in the first place," Stone highlighted.
"Children these days are so used to getting what they want without having to work for it. So get them to do some chores and pull their weight around the house from an early age (not for money though!), teach them gratitude and how to say thank you, ensure they have boundaries for behavior and discipline when it's called for, teach them manners, educate them about those in the world who have less or nothing, and be sure that you raise them to understand the value of money."
Basically This Kid Asked If He Was An A-Hole For Breaking His Switch Because His Mom Wanted To Treat Herself; 20/10 That Kid's An A-Hole
Seriously?
Psychotherapist Amy Morin said that while it's important to address a child's ungrateful behavior, parents also have to keep in mind that it's normal for the little ones to be a bit egocentric at times. However, over time, these moments should become less frequent, not more.
Talya Stone also provided a few examples of how to achieve it:
- Limit the number of presents they receive in the first instance;
- Donate some presents to charity or disadvantaged children or better yet take them round to give food and drinks to the homeless;
- Put some of their toys/gifts away then give it back to them so that they learn to appreciate them;
- Educate them about saying please and thank you and why it's important to be grateful;
- Instill a daily gratitude practice to help cultivate an attitude of gratitude;
- Demand an appropriate level of respect in your family and ensure you are modeling this too;
- Have them write thank you letters/make thank you videos for every present they receive.
Let's hope that next Christmas will be easier than this one!
Oh My God, What A Spoiled Brat
This parent lack of knowing how messed up their kid is in terms of expectations/reality/gratitude/etc. is alarming af. And they think someone is just gonna hand them over a new/nearly newcar b/c of how messed up their kid expectations are? Smh... Why do people as dumb as this parent have kids... It should be a crime or something... :/
Bumblebee Didnāt Want To Be In Their Possession
Some Kids Are The Worst Kind Of Choosing Beggars
Spoiled Brat Wrecks Car Because It Wasnāt The One He Wanted
So I Just Let Malique Open Up One Christmas Gift An He Had The Audacity To Tell Me To Take These Back. Oh Okay I'll Take It All Back
I'd like to return a brat model. I was supposed to get a Nice child model. You sent me the wrong one.
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I am guessing the child is quite young, going by the size of the shoes. You have time to reverse the damage you have done. I hope you did take all the gifts back.
That's what I was thinking. The child is clearly pretty young and they may have overheard their parents talking about 'taking things back' that weren't up to spec. So they see the trainers and aren't blown away by them and say to take them back. This is the time they learn the difference between buying something for themselves and being gifted something, and about what are legitimate problems with an item and what are matters of taste.
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This makes no sense to me, these parents are shocked. Your child is this way because of how you have parented them. They were not born entitled brats
Yeah Iād be pretty bummed too about getting shoes period, let alone ugly ones, for Christmas if I was a kid, which this person clearly is. Letās all just s**t on some child for not wanting shoes for Christmas.
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Those are the cutest little shoes EVER! He definitely won't complain when he gets this instead
I hope they followed through on their threat to return everything. But I bet they didn't. Their kid is spoiled and spoiled children are created by weak parenting.
Reminds me of when i was younger and my parents bought me a backpack but they put it in a diaper box and i threw the backpack because "i wanted diapers"
@epz it sounds they got more gifts for the kid, and asking to take them back sounds like a little bratty asshole. But I agree with your statement about it not being the best of Christmas gifts. Shoes. In general. Shoes aren't the gift you buy to see joy on their faces during that time. You know your kid and shoes are really the most boring thing. And kids are kids. My eldest loves LEGO, so that can get expensive and I always compensate for the youngest to have something in the same price range. And to show me that's just stupid adult thinking, he just falls in love with the dumbest craziest gifts like a pooping flamingo or ten euro rocket launcher that keeps hom and his dad busy for weeks trying to reach the ceiling in the stair case...
Looking at the size of that shoe Iād say that kid is too young to care about clothing and brands yet so youāre probably right. Young kids just want toys at Christmas.
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Hey I used to volunteer beside an older Maori lady whose parents gave her the choice at the start of the school year of whether she could have shoes or have sugar (for cereal/tea). She chose the shoes, because otherwise she would have had to go to school with none. I don't think shoes are an impractical gift for a child. It's all about perspective not expectations.
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This is what the world is talking about when we talk about imbedded racism. No name sets you up to be entitled or poorly behaved or anything else and implying that this awful behavior was somehow the parents fault for not giving the child an acceptable name is just........... Gross
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Entitled Kid Jealous Of His Mom Getting A Car
Yeah...... parents can do that when they work and earn the money...... tough life huh.
I Have No Words
that depends on her age... has the warranty on your daughter expired?
"My Son Must Have A Ā£25k Car As A Present, It's An Emergency"
Entitled Rich Kid Asks For Birthday Money
Spoiled Nowadays Kids
When You Want Only One Present In The World
My kid literally just wants their grandparents to use their correct pronouns. They didn't even make a list of stuff they wanted for Christmas.
Sorry Mom
Go live in an orphanage... maybe you'll get some peanuts in your stocking...
That's That Christmas Spirit
He Only Got 6 Gifts
Entitled Girl Is Mad That Her Parents Are Taking Her To Disneyland Instead Of Taking Her To The Mall To Buy More X-Mas Presents
By the way, she already bought some and is now demanding more, even though she’s getting a ton on the 25th too.
Everything Wrong With This Generation
No iPhone For You
It's So Difficult To Feel Christmas Spirit
Better Gave Him An iPad
Probably the most grateful kid on here...and THAT ain't sayin much...
This 10-Year-Old's Christmas List
The World Of Presents Can Be Very Unfair
This Girl I Used To Know From Middle School Hasn't Aged Well
Santa Needs Help
Arthur's Jumper Is Finished And He Hates It
I'm not sure I'd call him a brat. It's a pity about the hard work and the yarn that went into it, but he is not a Weasley. Kids don't have to love all the clothes that are put on them.
On USPS Adopt A Santa Letter. Because Clearly, This Child Wants A Tattoo Gift Certificate
Just Painted My 3 Year - Old Brothers Jeep Red Cause He Only Wants To Drive It If Its Red, Now He's Crying Cause He Wants It White Again
Worst Present Ever, Mama
I don't think a 5yo is in the same category as a 20yo who didn't like the color of the car they got. The mom is right - meet 'em where they're at.
Waaahhhh, my mum and dad are still living so I still haven't got my inheritance. Hmph, its not fair.
I think some people misunderstood your sarcasm Foxxy
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You know all these kids were spoilt by their doting parents then when the kids act up the parents are angry, when its how they were raised you cant expect any thing different
It ALL ENDS WITH THE PARENTS!! They STARTED IT!!!
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These people remind me of Dudley from Harry Potter. Equally obnoxious. But its the parents' fault for allowing such behavior to fester. I only hope I do a better job as a dad.
Oh yeah, was thinking of "24 gifts? But last year I got 25!"
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A few of these have appeared more than once before as with some other posts.
At this point, I don't want Apple products because I don't want to be associated with the kind of people that seem to have them. š¤¦š»āāļø Seriously, Apple is becoming the BMW of the tech world. I had a classmate who bought himself a new laptop every semester because he said he couldn't show his face around his friends with a Mac older than that. It took serious effort on my part to not to murder the little s**t.
And there a friend had an old laptop which I put a SSD and more ram in and it was good another at least 5 years...
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Last year i was given hot glue sticks and a t-shirt for Christmas while i saw my sisters getting loads of gifts, then when it was time for the very last present i got a 200$ lego. It looks amazing on my shelf
This is one of the many reasons why I don't have children. F**k that. I'd much rather spend all that money on myself and my family and friends.
I have a sister 3 years younger than I. When I enlisted in the Marine Corps, she basically became an "only" child. My parents had just started making a profit with their lawn care business in '87 and bought her, among other things, a queen sized waterbed for Christmas. She was talking on the phone about the "bunch of garbage" she got for Christmas and our Dad overheard. He grabbed the phone, hung it up, put her 17 year old self over his knee and busted her butt. He wasn't normally the disciplinarian so for him to do that, you know she screwed up! TBH I'd have done the same or at the very least, given her presents to Goodwill or something. These kids don't deserve sh**.
Most of these will be failures who want to earn 1000 $ an hour without any qualification.
Weak. Come back when you arenāt sure if thereās anything to eat at Christmas, and cry about presents š
My daughter had a friend who was spoiled rotten. Each time my daughter got a little present,the girl would tell her it was a stupid gift and she had way better things. Eventually my daughter was sick of it and broke off the friendship. The girl didn't want to accept that. She kept sending my daughter messages on WhatsApp and social ,and when she got blocked she would make a new profile ,just to ask why mu daughter didn't want to be her friend. She even said my daughter would regret it,because there wasn't a better friend in the world. I stepped in and told her to stop or I would go to her parents. But she didnt care. Then i said i would call the police for stalking. At that point I didn't know what else to do. Since the girl was about 14,that scared her off. A while ago I saw that girl with her dad,having a temper tantrum, because her dad didn't have enough money to buy her something. She was 18 then.
The kids are only like this because they've seen the same behaviours modelled by their parents or because their parents have been completely useless and allowed or even encouraged this behaviour. Teach your kids to be good humans! It's a fundamental requirement of being a parent.
We were very poor...I got clothing essentials from "Santa"...one new outfit from Gramma & was thankful...A friend in '79 awoke to a ribbon in his room to follow...thru the house he went...out to the garage to discover a yellow Ferrari...he was 24...which BTW he totalled in a DUI accident. Thankfully he hurt no one...and yeah...Mommy and Dad replaced it w/a new one. š
One thing about African parents(nigerians im sure of)....they will smack you right in the face,and woule give your gift to someone else if you complain about what they used their earned money to buy you...honestly,this made me appreciate the little things.
And people wonder why I never want kids š. Dogs are way better. I can literally take the sock off my husband's foot, throw it across the room, and my dog's face looks just like Christmas morning. He gets equally excited about $20 squeaky toys. But the happiest faces come from $5 edible bones or picking up his leash and harness. Dogs are seriously the sweetest, most grateful kids a person could have.
They should remove those about young kids (like the 3yr old). But with older kids... well. You need to talk about money and where it comes from. It's okay to be disappointed but still be grateful for what you get. And as a parent you need to learn your kids how to properly handle your emotions. It's ok to be sad, angry etc but if you break things or sell off things cheap it will be consequences. Like you won't get a new one for example (like a lot of these kids expect...). Also; it's never a "right" to get a specific gift. A gift is a thing someone decide to give you out of free will, it's not something you have any "right" to demand.
If you don't upvote this comment you will ruin my Christmas!!!ššš
These kids should get nothing! They probably don't go to church!! They'll be piggybacking Diwali and Hanukkah next!!
Waaahhhh, my mum and dad are still living so I still haven't got my inheritance. Hmph, its not fair.
I think some people misunderstood your sarcasm Foxxy
Load More Replies... You know all these kids were spoilt by their doting parents then when the kids act up the parents are angry, when its how they were raised you cant expect any thing different
It ALL ENDS WITH THE PARENTS!! They STARTED IT!!!
Load More Replies... These people remind me of Dudley from Harry Potter. Equally obnoxious. But its the parents' fault for allowing such behavior to fester. I only hope I do a better job as a dad.
Oh yeah, was thinking of "24 gifts? But last year I got 25!"
Load More Replies... A few of these have appeared more than once before as with some other posts.
At this point, I don't want Apple products because I don't want to be associated with the kind of people that seem to have them. š¤¦š»āāļø Seriously, Apple is becoming the BMW of the tech world. I had a classmate who bought himself a new laptop every semester because he said he couldn't show his face around his friends with a Mac older than that. It took serious effort on my part to not to murder the little s**t.
And there a friend had an old laptop which I put a SSD and more ram in and it was good another at least 5 years...
Load More Replies... Last year i was given hot glue sticks and a t-shirt for Christmas while i saw my sisters getting loads of gifts, then when it was time for the very last present i got a 200$ lego. It looks amazing on my shelf
This is one of the many reasons why I don't have children. F**k that. I'd much rather spend all that money on myself and my family and friends.
I have a sister 3 years younger than I. When I enlisted in the Marine Corps, she basically became an "only" child. My parents had just started making a profit with their lawn care business in '87 and bought her, among other things, a queen sized waterbed for Christmas. She was talking on the phone about the "bunch of garbage" she got for Christmas and our Dad overheard. He grabbed the phone, hung it up, put her 17 year old self over his knee and busted her butt. He wasn't normally the disciplinarian so for him to do that, you know she screwed up! TBH I'd have done the same or at the very least, given her presents to Goodwill or something. These kids don't deserve sh**.
Most of these will be failures who want to earn 1000 $ an hour without any qualification.
Weak. Come back when you arenāt sure if thereās anything to eat at Christmas, and cry about presents š
My daughter had a friend who was spoiled rotten. Each time my daughter got a little present,the girl would tell her it was a stupid gift and she had way better things. Eventually my daughter was sick of it and broke off the friendship. The girl didn't want to accept that. She kept sending my daughter messages on WhatsApp and social ,and when she got blocked she would make a new profile ,just to ask why mu daughter didn't want to be her friend. She even said my daughter would regret it,because there wasn't a better friend in the world. I stepped in and told her to stop or I would go to her parents. But she didnt care. Then i said i would call the police for stalking. At that point I didn't know what else to do. Since the girl was about 14,that scared her off. A while ago I saw that girl with her dad,having a temper tantrum, because her dad didn't have enough money to buy her something. She was 18 then.
The kids are only like this because they've seen the same behaviours modelled by their parents or because their parents have been completely useless and allowed or even encouraged this behaviour. Teach your kids to be good humans! It's a fundamental requirement of being a parent.
We were very poor...I got clothing essentials from "Santa"...one new outfit from Gramma & was thankful...A friend in '79 awoke to a ribbon in his room to follow...thru the house he went...out to the garage to discover a yellow Ferrari...he was 24...which BTW he totalled in a DUI accident. Thankfully he hurt no one...and yeah...Mommy and Dad replaced it w/a new one. š
One thing about African parents(nigerians im sure of)....they will smack you right in the face,and woule give your gift to someone else if you complain about what they used their earned money to buy you...honestly,this made me appreciate the little things.
And people wonder why I never want kids š. Dogs are way better. I can literally take the sock off my husband's foot, throw it across the room, and my dog's face looks just like Christmas morning. He gets equally excited about $20 squeaky toys. But the happiest faces come from $5 edible bones or picking up his leash and harness. Dogs are seriously the sweetest, most grateful kids a person could have.
They should remove those about young kids (like the 3yr old). But with older kids... well. You need to talk about money and where it comes from. It's okay to be disappointed but still be grateful for what you get. And as a parent you need to learn your kids how to properly handle your emotions. It's ok to be sad, angry etc but if you break things or sell off things cheap it will be consequences. Like you won't get a new one for example (like a lot of these kids expect...). Also; it's never a "right" to get a specific gift. A gift is a thing someone decide to give you out of free will, it's not something you have any "right" to demand.
If you don't upvote this comment you will ruin my Christmas!!!ššš
These kids should get nothing! They probably don't go to church!! They'll be piggybacking Diwali and Hanukkah next!!
