Oh no, she didn’t.
How a parent disciplines their child is a personal decision — but when it affects innocent bystanders, that’s something that can be up for debate.
A woman named Julia Austin took to TikTok to share a time when she got her expensive jacket ruined by a child — and the parent didn’t do anything about it.
“I was in a restaurant recently and the table next to me was a family with two little kids, and the kids had these bottles of juice that they were playing with,” she said in her video that has garnered over 250,000 views.
“Like, oh good, juice should definitely be a toy, this will turn out well. Lo and behold, eventually one of the kids [let go] and spilled the juice all over my $200 suede jacket.”
Austin explained how a server came over to help clean up and seemed to be most concerned about her ruined jacket — considering the mom coolly answered, “Oh, her jacket’s fine.”
Obviously, what is one person’s concern is not another’s. But in this case, the parent is technically in the wrong for not only letting her kids play with juice but also for it to ruin a stranger’s clothing and not do anything about it.
And the thousands of commenters agreed.
“Hot take: parents are lazy these days and don’t want to discipline their kids anymore. I see it all the time working as a server & hairstylist.”
“She should have paid. She’s responsible for her kids, mistakes happen but it was a preventable mistake.”
“I would have said, “Actually, it isn’t fine and suede is expensive to dry clean. I expect you’ll be wanting to pick up that tab, correct?”
“Entitled parents are the WORST. She should have INSISTED to pay for cleaning it or replace it.”
“I had a child wipe their dirty sticky hands on my silk dress. They didn’t even offer to try and pay for the dry cleaning.”
This isn’t the first mom making people scratch their heads at her parenting choices,
Louisiana mom Brittany Norris sparked a parenting style debate when she admitted to teaching her children how to fight, if need be.
“If someone hits my kid, I’m not raising them to go tell the teacher. Not raising a snitch,” the 27-year-old said in a now-viral video.
“Handle it yourself, hit back, defend yourself, and if that’s not enough, I will interfere. If that’s controversial, I don’t really care, because no. Hit back harder. Thank you,” she continued.
“I was always told, ‘Never throw the first punch but you better finish it,’” one commenter wrote on the video.
“Bullies only bully the ones who allow it,” chimed in someone else.
