Imagine that one day you go to the store or the market with your children, and when you leave you realize that they have taken something without paying it. What would you do if you discover that your child has stolen something? Probably most parents would agree that we should teach them that this is wrong and have them return it, even if they find it embarrassing to do so.
This was the lesson that a Mexican mother gave to her two children aged 3 and 5, who had each stolen a packet of gum and made them return to the store to return them to the manager, capturing the entire scene on video and sharing it on social networks.
Andrea Muñoz is the mother of two children: Lucas, 3, and Gael, 5. Both children had stolen a packet of gum from a shop they had been with her recently, so realizing what happened, she He decided to teach them a lesson: stealing is not right.
Mother He took them to the store where they had been taken and had them returned and apologized to employees for taking the gum without paying them. She decided to record the video of that moment, which was published on the Facebook page of the newspaper El Universal.
In the video we can see the store manager asking the little ones what they had taken, and when he returned the gum packages and checked that they were unopened, he replied that this time he would let them pass, but not They must grab nothing without paying.
The children ask forgiveness between sobs and he replies that he forgives them, but that something like this does not happen again. The mother, to show the seriousness of the action, comments out loud that if that happens again, they will call the police and go to jail, ending the lesson she wanted to give to her children: "stealing is not right".
The video has received many comments supporting the mother's action by having her children return the gum they had taken without paying, Well, it doesn't really matter the value of what they took, but the fact of having stolen it.
Was it necessary to expose it in networks?
Personally I consider that the mother's action was fine, because on some occasion I found myself in a similar situation and I also made my daughter go to apologize for having taken something without paying it (in our case we were in a candy store and had taken a sweet from a bowl and I realized when I was eating it).
The person in charge said that nothing was happening and even when I tried to pay it he told me to leave it, but I wanted to show my daughter that what she did was not right and that actions like that have consequences.
But where I do not agree is the fact of publishing the video on social networks. While his children are not looking at their faces and are not humiliating them, I consider it unnecessary to record and publish it. I believe that as long as our children understand the message and learn the lesson, it is more than enough.
What would you have done?
