A mother recently punished her 14-year-old daughter and made her sleep in a tent for “cursing a homeless man”. After receiving criticism for her strict punishment, she took to a website to ask if she was wrong.
Mom makes her teenage daughter sleep in an outdoor tent for being rude to a homeless man
A well-meaning mother doubted her punishment after her sister told her it was too severe.
The mother shared the incident that inspired the unique but effective punishment. Several users in the comments agreed that she was, in fact, “not an idiot” and had done the right thing.
Others believed the experience didn’t happen at all.
The mother wrote: “Yesterday, Jasmine showed me a video of Jessica cursing at a homeless man and telling him, ‘Stop asking me for money, you’d earn it yourself if you weren’t so fucking lazy and spend what you spend ‘.
earned with substances ‘”
She added that the homeless man complained about the cold, to which Jessica responded, “Yeah, people camp out for fun, even in December, you can’t complain, you’re living on someone’s vacation.” Evidently, the video infuriated the mother, so she devised a punishment to make sure her daughter learned some empathy.
She shared, “In addition to finding the homeless man and getting him to apologize and helping her pay for a hotel room for a night for him, plus signing her up to volunteer at a food bank, I decided to take her up on her offer.
to sleep outside.”
“I locked the door to his room so he couldn’t get in, put up a sign that said ‘Closed for vacation,’ set up a tent in the garden and filled it with blankets and the sleeping bag I used when I was camping in Norway on a family vacation when I was a teenager.”
In the days that followed, the mother realized how effective the punishment was.
She said, “In the morning, Jessica was crying about how horrible it was to wake up on a cold carpet and have her sleep interrupted because of the birds.
After comforting her, I asked her if she would like to do that every day as the bum. . It struck a chord with her and she was crying over her actions, while even after [paying for a hotel room for a night], she was rolling her eyes and her apology was insincere.”
