Let's say that you're the parent of a 6 year old girl, likely finishing kindergarten. You decide to have Build-a-Bear Workshop host a birthday party for your daughter, AND they let you have the run of the joint. You invite guests to bring Build-a-Bear toys they've created. Amidst the birthday cake and other treats, how would you run the party?
I ask because one parent decided her daughter JUST HAD to have all the toys brought to the party she threw at a Build-a-Bear Workshop, and virtually at the last minute, as the guests and their parents were leaving, DEMANDED that the children give up their toys. The ones these kids and their parents spent hours putting together on their own time.
Understandably, the guests were upset. Seems to me this self-entitled parent just gave her daughter a bad case of affluenza on top of the extra toys.
This video comes from an ABC affiliate in Chicago (which is also the broadcast home of the Cubs):
Once I caught wind of this on reddit, I started searching around for further information. Seems Bad Parent is also on a local school board, and feels entitled because of the power she wields. What message does that send to her little girl? I've read some comments from sympathetic folks who feel that poor little girl will end up having some social issues down the road because of her greedy mom, who gets the Weasel ears this week.
The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Ephesians, advised children to obey their parents in the sight of God, "for this is right". However, if what the parents are doing isn't right, what happens then?
2 comments:
This is insane!!
Just when I think we've hit the zenith in self serving, selfish, obnoxious individuals, we hear this story!!
How could this woman think this was acceptable? Did she not think the kids would be sad about giving up the toys that were meant for them or that the story wouldn't get out?
Please stop the world, I want to get off!!!
Thank God we don't have anything like that here in New York State. I think.....
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