Earlier this week, a mother called out parents in a viral TikTok, claiming she bought her daughter a name-brand Stanley Cup after a classmate at school teased her for carrying around a counterfeit Walmart item worth less than $10. Ta.
“Can she afford a Stanley? Yes. Did I think she needed one? No,” Dana Motyka told her followers earlier this week.
“Apparently I was proven wrong by the kids at school who were making fun of her for not owning a real name brand Stanley.”
Motyka showed her daughter a pink and white cheetah-print insulated tumbler she bought for $9.98 and said she thought it was “cute.”
After returning to school from vacation, Motika's daughter noticed that other girls (many of whom had received Stanley Cups for Christmas) criticized the knockoffs and told her daughter that it was not the “real Stanley”. He was “upset” that he had informed the police. ”
“[They told her] This is fake and not that cool,” she said, pointing to the cup.
Motikka also blamed the girls' parents for not teaching them to treat others with respect, citing the lack of popular trendy products such as Stanley, Uggs and Lululemon.
“This doesn't start with the children. This starts with us, the parents, the mothers. What are we teaching our children?” she asked.
“If our 9-year-old daughter came home and found out that for some reason she was teased by other girls at school for not owning a name brand, we would call the family. You better believe we'll have her write an apology note or apologize in person, because that's not what we do in this household.''
Motyka also bought her daughter a real Stanley Cup, which she also showed off in a video, but the family told their children that even though they have enough money to buy these things, they don't necessarily need them. He said that he is trying to teach that there is no such thing.
“We try to teach our kids that it's not always necessary. Things are earned. You have to work for something in life. Everything just gets handed to you. “It doesn't mean you can't do it,” she said.
“But wouldn't you also want to see your daughter ostracized and made fun of because she doesn't own name-brand items? That's how I was raised,” she continued, adding that her children's She explained that when she was younger, she was teased for not wearing name-brand clothes like other children.
Motika ended her video with a message urging parents to teach their children not to make fun of others for not having what they have.
The Stanley Cup craze shows videos of shoppers raiding Target shelves to get their hands on 40-ounce pink and red Valentine's Day limited editions. Stanley's Adventure Quencher Travel recently introduced his tumbler, which has resulted in some people saying they were “nearly trampled on”.
One TikTok video posted by @jazzedbyjaz shows a Texas shopper clearing shelves of coveted releases in less than four minutes.
