Mom Gives Spoiled Son Savage Note To Teach Him A Valuable Life Lesson

As a parent, your job is to keep your composure, and in between volleys of verbal abuse, attempt to instil the values that will enable your offspring to integrate smoothly into the wider world. Doting mother Heidi Johnson clashed with her teenage son Aaron after he was caught lying about doing his homework and attempting to gain independence in completely the wrong manner. Instead of losing her temper, she came up with a clever plan to teach her son an important lesson.

Heidi Johnson’s 13-year-old son Aaron was fairly popular on YouTube. However, when his videos started to make some money, the newfound fame apparently went to his head. When confronted about his homework, Aaron protested that he now had a job, and that he was eventually going to do it. This disagreement might have easily escalated, but Heidi used the incident to give Aaron a dose of reality when it comes to independence, and hopefully teach him a thing or two about gratitude along the way. Heidi wrote her son a letter that helped Aaron to understand his role in the family, and left the note under his door.




Although Aaron had clearly overstepped his boundaries, initially, Heidi’s gambit didn’t go well. The 13-year-old stormed out of the apartment, but rather than try to reason with her son or prevent him from leaving, Heidi wisely realised that this would allow time for Aaron to thoroughly consider the situation: “When he could be respectful, and I was more calm, we would discuss it further.”
She then shared posted the letter on Facebook. Heidi only intended to share it with her friends, but accidentally set the privacy of the picture to public. As a result, her post was shared over 167,000 times, with many mothers taking the time to commend Heidi on her exemplary parenting.



Innovative methods of parenting such as the letter written by Heidi always have the potential to backfire. However, Aaron soon returned home, giving his mother back the things she had bought, and pledged to earn them back using his own cash. He also apologised for his outburst, and quizzed his mum on how he could improve the situation. So that both Heidi and Aaron knew exactly where they stood, Heidi drafted a contract that would ensure clear communication about the rules of the home, and outlined how Aaron would balance his school work with his YouTube duties.



As any parent will probably be at great pains to stress, there’s no set manual for raising a child. It’s a thankless, near impossible task, and although both parent and offspring will make mistakes from time to time, it’s important that any disagreements don’t unduly upset the family balance.

Aaron was probably quite excited to be earning money for the first time in his life, and it would have been easy to accidentally deflate his confidence while setting him straight on the correct family values. With her clever letter and her contract, Heidi helped keep her son’s feet on the ground, and it looks like Aaron is well on the way to becoming a successful and well-adjusted adult.