A woman has sparked a debate after sharing how an ‘entitled’ mum tried to hijack her birthday celebration because she didn’t want her toddler missing out on the fun
A woman has slammed an ‘entitled’ mum for demanding she involves her toddler in her birthday celebrations. She explained how she was celebrating her birthday with her closest friends at one of her favourite restaurants – but when her cake arrived at the table, the mood changed.
Taking to Reddit, she said: “When the cake arrived with lit candles everyone started singing. Out of nowhere a mum from a near table walks over with her toddler and says let him blow out the candles, he loves doing that. I thought she was joking, but she was dead serious.” Caught off guard, the woman froze but thankfully her friend spoke up, telling the entitled parent in a blunt tone: ‘It’s her birthday’.
She added: “The mum actually scoffed and said so? He just a kid. Don’t be rude. I blew out my own candles and she walked away muttering like I ruined her evening. Sorry but your kid is not entitled to hijack someone else’s celebration.”
Venting about the situation on social media, the woman invited others to share their thoughts on the mum’s entitled behaviour and the lessons it could be teaching her son.
Responding to her post, one user said: “Imagine crashing someone else’s birthday and getting mad your toddler didn’t get to commit candle theft. Peak main character energy.”
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Another user added: “It’s no wonder kids now are spoiled as s***! Having that kind of entitlement would surely ruin a child.”
A third user said: “Random child. Random child germs. Did they expect to eat cake too? The entitlement is wild.”
Another user said: “You do not, under any circumstances, blow out the candles on someone else’s birthday cake.It’s a bad lesson to teach a kid that they can take that moment away from people.”
Sharing a similar story, one more user added: “We were at my in-laws for dinner for my husbands birthday when mother-in-law walked out with the cake for my husband.
“She walked to the opposite side of the table to him so that she could give a separate little cake with a candle to his niece first.
“Then after that just reached across the table to pass my husband his cake. I was in a bad mood so it annoyed me more than it should have.
“Then the niece kept pointing at the cake saying what piece she wanted and how she would be taking some home.
“No one else spoke up so I told her ‘no this is your uncle’s birthday, it is his cake, he gets to take it home.’ I’m getting sick of the in-laws letting her think every celebration has to be focused on her.”