A 13-year old boy who started making money from popular YouTube videos had the success go to his head, and he decided he no longer needed to be respectful to his mother. The frustrated mother, Estella Havisham, had enough, and decided to write him a letter with a contract inside it which has since gone viral.
Conservative Tribune reports,
Havisham posted the contract online, which received more attention than she expected — but the best response was from her soon, who approached her later that night and wanted to talk things out.
“Later, that same night, he came back into my room and sat on the foot of my bed and asked if we could talk,” Havisham posted on social media. “He wanted to know how he could earn things back.”
Havisham said her son did indeed earn back much of what was taken from him and he also has a better understanding of gratitude and how the real world works.
“The bigger point is, the message was received. I think a lot influenced his very sudden change in heart,” she said.
“It may have seemed like tough love, or a harsh reality check, but putting it into practice has been fairly gentle. I have seen him trying to be more conscientious,” she explained. “Only time will tell — But as for this week, things are much better and I have high hopes.”
In this era of 24/7 social media, with every teenager a reality star, parents need to wise up on dealing with the abuses of the newer technologies. If your child is abusing social media, the best solution may be to correct the attention-craved wannabe star back using social media.