It isn’t easy to raise a family in today’s world. Depending on your circumstances, there can be more factors working against you than for you.

Parents know this well but they hide it from their children so they can live happy normal lives.

But what if your child, unaware of the realities of life, uses this normalcy to belittle and bully others?

That’s what Cierra Britney Forney had to deal with when she found out that her 13-year-old son was acting entitled like “he’s too good to shop at Walmart or making snarky comments about kids at school who shop at the goodwill. ”

“So lately, my 13-year-old son had been acting a little – entitled. Acting like he’s too good to shop at Wal-Mart or making snarky comments about kids at school who shop at the goodwill and quite a few other things. I don’t tolerate that,” Cierra Forney wrote on her Facebook wall.

This did not sit well with this Georgia mom and decided to teach her son a lesson he won’t forget.

“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. I want to teach my kids that money isn’t everything and if you have to degrade other people because of where they shop, then you too will shop there,” Cierra continued.

Since writing the post in March 2018, the post has gone viral with more than 169,000 comments, 778,000 likes, and 300,000 shares.

A lot of parents agreed with Cierra’s style of parenting and it was a great way to teach the children about humility.

“Go mom!!! A very good life lesson!! Keep up the good work!” Jane Welch left a comment on Cierra’s Facebook post.

Another fellow woman agreed with Cierra.

“You go Mom…teach him right and wrong. There’s a lot of other kids that need that lesson, [too],” Barbara Jean said.

There were even others who wanted Cierra to take it a step further.

“Great job mom! Now make him work for the money that will change his tune!” Cindy Fowler suggested.

Of course, there are also some people who were offended by the post or didn’t really the point Cierra was trying to make.

Some of them believed she was putting down people who shopped at Goodwill. Some also said the punishment didn’t suit the crime and her son won’t learn from it.

And some also said that her son learned this because he saw this attitude from somewhere and implied that Cierra and her husband inadvertently did.

For Cierra though, whether she got praises or naysayers, one thing mattered to her and that her son learns humility.

“If I didn’t nip it in the bud now … he’s 13, imagine the things he would be saying or doing at 16,” Cierra said. “I sat with him and tried to explain that I wasn’t punishing him, but that he can get nice clothes from anywhere.”

A year after her initial post went viral, Cierra’s friends asked if her son really learned his lesson.

“I mention it to him from time to time, it definitely made him see things differently. Having it go viral also caused him to hear a lot of – opinions? He hasn’t said one negative thing about another child since that day in my presence. I don’t know what he says when I’m not around, but he definitely doesn’t even think about saying it in front of me,” Cierra answered.

What would you have done if you were in Cierra’s shoes? Would you have done the same thing?

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Source: Big fish