Recently a young dad created a controversy when he shared online that he eats his cupcakes ‘outside the room’ so that his daughter won’t eat the frosting.
Every week I buy cupcakes for me, my wife, and she always eats my frosting. These past few weeks, I decided to eat my cupcake before going inside. She asked me where my cupcake is and I told her I don’t like cupcakes anymore so I only bought two.”
User u/tycjy shared a post on Reddit where he explained that his 10-year-old daughter loves frosting, and whenever he eats a cupcake, she would ask him to let her eat the frosting.
“It worked for a while but last night when I was enjoying my cupcake before going inside she caught me and ran to her mom to tell her how much of a Terrible dad I am to ‘steal her frostings for weeks.’”
He further wrote that his wife thinks he’s been acting childish, however, in reality, he is just a man who wants to eat his cupcakes in peace.
“She is sulking, and my wife thinks I’m the ah and I’m acting childish and should just let her have it but it’s easy for her to say when she has never given up HER frosting. AITA?” he asked.
His post received more than 2000 comments on Reddit where many people agreed with his wife and called him out for not teaching his child proper manners.
“YTA [you’re the a**hole]. Not for eating your cupcake outside really. But because you have failed to teach your child that she can’t always get what she wants or that she isn’t entitled to your frosting. That is YOUR cupcake – frosting and all. She has her own and that’s all she’s allowed to have.” A user commented.
The comment got viral and nearly received 26000 upvotes.
“Honestly whenever a child comes across as an entitled brat I am always pointing the ‘blame’ at the parents, and not the child. It’s like ‘you did this, YOU fix it’.” Wrote another.
“That is a terrible lesson to inculcate in a person. ‘I get all of mine, and some of yours, every single time. It is my natural place to get more than those around me.’ What a way to teach someone entitlement.” A third commented.
“Reading it, I thought ‘this is something my kid would try to do,’ but that’s because he’s 2. When I went back and saw this was a 10yo I was really surprised.” A fourth penned.
“Yup. My SIL made this terrible habit of letting her son have the last bite of everything she had. Well we were at dinner and MIL hands out ice cream sandwiches for dessert. Nephew was still eating his when mom finished hers so she just ate it all.”
“He didn’t notice until he’d eaten all his ice cream and looked around to see who still had some ice-cream to share with him and he screamed bloody murder when everyone ate their ice cream because nobody shared theirs with him. Even though he already had one just like everyone else he felt entitled to other people sharing theirs with him too. That was a hard lesson that day.” Someone else said.
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