Cape Town – TikTok is known as more of a social media platform popularised by Gen Z and millennials. However, after a high school user, Thandolwethu Wolff, was disciplined by her mother in a video she uploaded, the app could prove to be a platform for parents to explore different parenting techniques.
The South African teen was forced by her mother to make an apology video after she posted a video introducing her classmates and their problems.
Intimated by her mother’s powerful presence, she issued the apology.
“I’d like to apologise for the inconvenience that I caused on everyone and especially to Kairo, Gavin, Siphe, Reba, Maano, Siphe, Oratile and my principal Mrs Emmanual for defamating the school’s name,” the matric pupil said.
Under the instruction of her mother, she apologised to the students’ parents as well.
Watch the video here:
Batswadi ? what did she do ??? pic.twitter.com/H9LbdZUMPF
— BONNY (@bonnysovereign) August 30, 2022
Her mother also instructed the high school learner to deactivate her account and inform her followers to unfollow her.
The Twitter community dug deep and even found the video Thandolwethu was required to apologise for.
After years ???it’s been found https://t.co/7xFNMYFQVS
— BONNY (@bonnysovereign) August 30, 2022
Users were torn between the way they perceived the mother’s handling of the situation.
“Parents like this make me nauseous,” one user said.
Idc but parents like this make me nauseous hey.Public humiliation shouldn’t be part of the punishment,social media is very brutal to teenagers. How is she going to have a social life after this..sad.
— I’ll thug it out. (@ntobeko_walaza) August 30, 2022
Exactly dude… Poor parenting ?
— Clinton Ngoveni (@Immaculateclint) August 30, 2022
Meanwhile, other uses commended the mother for handling the situation in the way that she did.
If she humiliated people on social media, it’s only fair she apologises on the same platform. Kids grow up to be bullies because they aren’t held accountable for their actions. Wenze kahle uMama.
— JustMbali M (@mbali_magubane) August 30, 2022
Exactly my thoughts, we need to do our level best to raise kind kids…by all means possible.
— Womanist (@KediWaNnete) August 30, 2022
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Compiled by Junaid Benjamin
