A mother has been praised for her Facebook post in which she describes herself as the “the meanest mom in the world.”
Jaime Primark Sullivan, who lives in Alabama with her husband and their three children, told the story of how she threw away her kids’ ice creams during a trip to the shop.
The reason behind her decision is why she is gaining lots of fans.
She explains in her post, which was uploaded earlier this week: “The young lady (maybe 17) handed each child their ice cream. Not one looked her in the eye. Not one said thank you. Not to her, not to me… So I waited.
“I counted to 10 in my head as they dug into their ice cream and the young lady just looked at me (probably because she thought I was hearing voices) and I watched as my children strolled out the door.
“I followed them outside where I calmly collected their ice creams and my kids watched in horror as I deposited them into the nearby garbage can. All 3 launched into mass hysteria. I waited. Quiet. Calm. When they realized I had something to say, they quieted down.”
Jaime told her kids that one day, if they were lucky, they would have a job like the young lady and that she would hope that people would look them in the eye and say thanks.
She finished off with: “We are too old at 8/7/5 to move through our days without exercising manners and honestly basic human decency… So today, I am the meanest mom in the world.”
Her story has received almost 300,000 ‘Likes’ and has been shared over 30,000 times. A number of parents also shared similar stories and praised Jaime for instilling good manners in her brood.
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