Posted on 04/01/2018 5:09:20 AM PDT by Hojczyk
A Georgia mother gave her 13-year-old son a lesson in humility after she noticed he was belittling his classmates at school for shopping at stores like Walmart and Goodwill.
Cierra Brittany Forney, fed up with her son’s “entitled” attitude, decided to serve him a slice of humble pie by making him shop at the Goodwill store he mocked his classmates for shopping at—and posted about the experience on Facebook.
“I don’t tolerate that,” Forney wrote. “Today, he took his own ($20) to the goodwill to buy clothes to wear the entire week to school. Whatever he found is what he would have to wear. He isn’t happy and shed a few tears but I firmly believe in 15 years he will look back and laugh at the day his Mom made him shop at goodwill.”
children was partly to blame for her son’s attitude but that she is trying to curb that habit.
advertisement “I had my son when I was 15 and my husband was 17, and because we had our kids so young, we were adamant that they weren’t going to go without because of our decision. So we spoiled them,” she said.
Despite her son’s initial reluctance to embrace his mother’s wisdom, Forney says he is being a “good sport” about it and starting to let the message sink in.
“He’s getting what I’m saying,” she said. “He’s been a good sport.”
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I disagree.
>>I admire her intent and don’t look at it as virtue signaling. I used to tell mine I have X dollars for your clothes.
Did you get them to buy clothes to be worn for a week?
Becuase that’s Virtue Signaling.
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