Recently, an American mum and blogger recorded a video in which she spoke at length about the importance of being a parent, not a friend to your child – a topic that many parents have raised in response to a viral video about something as simple as tidying a bedroom.

 

A video posted to the ‘So Feminine’ Facebook page has split opinion online, with some parents criticising one mother’s decision to clean her misbehaving son’s messy room.

 

In the video, which tells the story through a series of images and quotes, the worn-out mother explains her thought-process after opening her son’s bedroom door and surveying the mess.

 

“He had been really cocky in the morning…he didn’t clear the table and he had slammed the door when he left the house…I was angry, I was hurt and I was tired…In that moment all the fight drained out of me. When I looked past the bad attitude and his messy room, I saw a stressed out kid,” she explained.

 

And so, she did what so many of us would do – she decided to forgive her son for his misbehaviour, and she spent the next few hours ‘serving her child’ by cleaning his room.

 

 

When her son later picked up their argument where they left off, he stormed upstairs – only to be surprised by a spick-and-span room.

 

After questioning why his mother would make such a lovely gesture after the events of that morning, she explained that she empathised with him through his stress and frustration.

 

“Sometimes it is more important to give our children what they need. Not what they deserve,” she wrote, in the final message of the video.

 

While some parents can totally see where this unnamed mother is coming from, others have left critical comments beneath the video.

 

“Stressed out for what? That's puberty and hormones. Unless they are truly being picked on or trying hard in school but can't get it. Other than to clean your room, it’s responsibility in the real world. Just because you have a bad day doesn't mean you can stop your responsibilities!” wrote one woman.

 

Meanwhile, another person accused the mother of ‘going soft on discipline’.

 

Where do you stand in the debate?

 

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