Ungrateful Girl Throws Pencil Case Mom Bought Her In The Trash, Learns A Lesson When Mom Replaces It With A Ziploc Bag

Absolutely. What is described here is behaviour of a child that seems irrational to an adult. Teaching her to value belongings can be done without shaming and without guilt!

Agreed. Just put it away or donate it without the need for in$tagram likes.

I'm not a fan of humiliating one's children for the sake of "likes" in social media but this is most certainly not going to follow this little girl "for the rest of her life". That is a ridiculous premise.

I 100% agree with this, and the only reason I even opened the article was to point this out. I have a whole lot of experience with my parents spreading the info about my mistakes to others, and that has some really nasty effects on a child's social skills, self-esteem, and the ability to trust others. I would also focus on teaching the girl more about gratitude instead of just "thinking I have taught her to be grateful" - and maybe there was another reason why reacted this way: perhaps something's happened at school, perhaps she needed support more than scolding. It happens more often than parents may think. And letting your child go to school with a ziploc bag instead of a normal pencil bag? It's making your child face rude comments from her schoolmates most of time. The whole thing left me feel quite down, it sucks so much that some parents don't realize this is just emotional abuse.

It's not good parenting unless you post it on the internet.

The internet is a tool, a tool to learn. Unfortunately most people use it to complain instead of learning. I think this woman not only taught her child a vauable lesson, but she posted pictures so she could teach other parents out there that have recently really been lax about their parenting (see:15 years of entitled adults that think they are owed everything for nothing). I don't see her shaming or guilting her child in any way in this article, as a matter of fact, she praised her highly. I wish more of you would take a lesson from this young woman.

I so agree with you Lynn. I've been downvoted a few times for saying that, and I'm glad finally this thought got a lot of supporters. I cant stand the over exposure of children and ill people on the web. It's not nice. These people are the weaker ones and should be protected, not shown when they cant give consent for that

I don't agree completely. Even though this may be irrational, the post may be beneficial for new parents. In my opinion, it is great to see parents using social media to share parenting advice on the internet. Presleigh could look back and see how her mom was parenting Presleigh. Anyways, I respect you opinion and have nothing against it. I just wanted to share it with the world.

But it is ok for them to post pictures that can land other people in trouble for looking at simply because they posted it themselves? (no, not on most moderated social media but it does happen) Sorry, but you take the good with the bad. I am not one do this myself, but I see zero problems with showing a spoiled brat how bratty they were, and using it in the future. Maybe a little embarrassment will save them a LOT more problems in the future. I just prefer personally to keep it more "in house" edit: corrected spelling of moderated

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You guys are f*****g stupid. This is good and even better. Showing a good lesson is nothing wrong. If your dumb assed think this is remotely bad then your way past first world problems

Forget growing up - you think some of her classmates' parents aren't going to show their children? I'd have hated for my mom to put everything wrong I did online for my friends to see & make fun of me.

Yeah and her name is Presleigh. Damn that's trashy.

You’d have to be pretty obsessed to look an old article of BP years later, check first name and possible account linked to that. Like why, just why... Yes it’s not great to post your child’s pictures in the internet but that’s reaching pretty far.

I have a sister with a name that has a less common spelling - she gets sick of spelling it out all the time. Parents don't think about that when trying to be original.

The real reason she's crying.

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Her mother is a moron. She not only gave her kid a stupid name that will screw up her life until she's 18 and can legally change it, she's so invested in her own mental masturbation that she posted a picture of a little kid online for the rest of the world to look at....forever. That level of dipshittery should result in losing custody to a grownup.

Well this really reflect what kind of mother this parent is.

Me too, Pre-Sleigh, she's doomed to a life of Santa jokes

-eigh is a common ending to certain girl's names where I grew up.

Not to mention there is nothing to brag about ;)

It took me.a good minute to pronounce the name. I dont get it either.

I agree that the shaming is too much but as for the name-- Leigh is a pretty common spelling of 'Lee' so the name isn't so unusual. But either way, Presley isn't a 'common name' anyway, it's generally a surname.