Photo: Facebook / Matt Cox
These days, kids tend to take most things for granted, from the devices they use for fun to the simple fact that they’re able to take a bus to school or hitch a ride in one of their parents’ car.
Matt Cox from Ohio believes all children should be taught that these are privileges, not rights, just as they should be taught that they can easily lose them when they do something unacceptable. Case in point: his 10-year-old daughter got kicked off the school bus for bullying, the second time in a week.
This happened on Friday, which is when the girl told Cox he would “have” to drive her to school come Monday morning. On Monday, Cox showed her he didn’t “have” to do anything like that, by having her walk all the way to school: 5 miles in 36-degree weather, as he says in the video he posted on Facebook.
“I realized she viewed the privilege of riding the bus and or car rides to and from school as a right and not a privilege,” he says. Cox adds that he hates bullying, so he used the long walk to school to let his daughter know how wrong it was that she’d practiced it. He also told her that she wouldn’t be walking if she’d been nice to the other student, instead of bullying her.
Cox knows that his method won’t sit well with other parents, but he’s ok with that, since he believes that’s the best way he can teach his “beautiful daughter” accountability.
His video went viral and, to his surprise, he received more praise than criticism. In an update to the original post, he assures the world that his daughter lost no limb to the cold and that, by the end of the walk, she had calmed down enough to understand where she’d been wrong.
She is now looking forward to being allowed back on the bus and won’t bully anyone again.
This happened on Friday, which is when the girl told Cox he would “have” to drive her to school come Monday morning. On Monday, Cox showed her he didn’t “have” to do anything like that, by having her walk all the way to school: 5 miles in 36-degree weather, as he says in the video he posted on Facebook.
“I realized she viewed the privilege of riding the bus and or car rides to and from school as a right and not a privilege,” he says. Cox adds that he hates bullying, so he used the long walk to school to let his daughter know how wrong it was that she’d practiced it. He also told her that she wouldn’t be walking if she’d been nice to the other student, instead of bullying her.
Cox knows that his method won’t sit well with other parents, but he’s ok with that, since he believes that’s the best way he can teach his “beautiful daughter” accountability.
His video went viral and, to his surprise, he received more praise than criticism. In an update to the original post, he assures the world that his daughter lost no limb to the cold and that, by the end of the walk, she had calmed down enough to understand where she’d been wrong.
She is now looking forward to being allowed back on the bus and won’t bully anyone again.
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