Parents are tasked with the responsibility to keep an eye on their children’s movements and to correct them whenever they do something wrong.
A man has recently gone viral on social media for all the wrong reasons after he ticked off his neighbours who had reprimanded his son for driving his motorcycle recklessly.
‘Who are you to scold my son?!’
In a video shared on X by MYNEWSHUB yesterday (Nov 9), it began with the man storming towards his neighbours with his teenage son in tow.
With his arms in akimbo, he fiercely confronted his neighbours by yelling, “Who gave you the right to scold him?! Who do you think you are to scold my son?!
Though taken aback by the man’s angry posture, the neighbours calmly explained to the man that they scolded his son for driving his motorcycle at high speeds and performing “wheelies”, which could pose a danger to others.
Instead of apologising and rebuking his son for his actions, the man doubled down and retorted, “He can do whatever he wants. It’s his right. The road doesn’t belong to you alone!”
In response, the neighbours said that while it was true that they didn’t own the road, it didn’t mean that the man’s son could continue endangering others with his behaviour, with one revealing that the teenager had nearly collided with an electric pole.
“We scolded him because we care. We wouldn’t do it for no reason,” they added.
However, this did little to convince the man, who continued to defend his son’s actions and claimed that his son would never lie to him.
Backlash
Unsurprisingly, the man didn’t win himself any favours from netizens, who slammed him for enabling his son’s reckless and dangerous behaviour.
‘This is what we call enabler parents. When their kid dies in an accident, they will start saying things like ‘My kid was a good kid’ or ‘My kid doesn’t act like this’.”
‘When you grow old, do you think your child will take care of you? If you keep spoiling them like this, don’t be surprised if you end up bedridden and alone.’
A netizen reminded the man that he had the responsibility to monitor his son as the latter’s actions do not just affect himself, but others too.
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