How far will you go to punish your children for misbehaving? A mother in China has gone viral after she shared a video of her pouring water on her primary-school-aged son multiple times as punishment.
The video, which features the mother pouring water on her son, was shared on Douyin and has almost 6 million views.
In the video, she instructed her son to stand closer to their second-floor flat window while she continuously poured water on him from a small basin despite her son’s protests.
When the boy began screaming, “No!” she asked him, “Why not? Didn’t you say this was fun?”
It was reported that the mother was punishing her son because a teacher had called her earlier that day to report that her son had thrown water on his classmates from the school’s third floor, in addition to tossing milk cartons at them.
Consequently, the mother “let him experience the water as if he were a victim.”
“Did you think about the kids downstairs when you threw water at them?” she asked her son when he complained that he was cold.
She eventually stopped pouring water on her son once he expressed remorse.
Her punishment method garnered widespread attention online and divided netizens.
“This is the best parenting I have ever seen. The mother was not venting her frustration but calmly teaching her son through experience and reason.”
Another added, “Nobody loves kids as much as their mothers. She was doing this for his own good.”
However, some questioned whether the mother’s punishment was “too harsh”.
In response to those criticisms, the mother asked, “What if next time he thinks tossing stones at people is fun?”
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