A mom called out parents in a viral TikTok earlier this week, claiming she bought her daughter a name-brand Stanley cup after her peers at college mocked her for toting her under $10 Walmart knock-off.
“Can we afford to purchase her a Stanley? Yes. Did I believe that she needed one? No,” Dayna Motycka told her followers earlier this week.
“Apparently I’ve been proven unsuitable by the kids in our college which might be making fun of her for not having an actual name-brand Stanley.”
Motycka showed the cheetah print pink and white insulated tumbler she purchased for $9.98, saying her daughter thought it was “cute.”
After coming back to highschool from the vacations, Motycka’s daughter was “upset” in regards to the way other girls, a lot of whom got Stanley Cups for Christmas, criticized the knock-off and made sure to let her comprehend it wasn’t a “real Stanley.”
“[They told her] that that is fake and never as cool,” she said, pointing to the cup.
Motycka proceeded to call out the women’ parents for failing to show them to treat others with respect for not having trendy, in-demand products, whether or not they’re Stanley, Uggs or Lululemon.
“This doesn’t start with the youngsters. This starts with us, with parents, with mothers. What are we teaching our children?” she asked.
“You’d higher consider that, if our nine-year-old daughter got here home and, by some means, we discovered that she had made fun of one other girl at college for not having something name-brand… we could be calling the family, we could be making her write a note to apologize, we’d make her apologize in person because that’s not what we do on this household.”
Motycka also bought her daughter an actual Stanley cup, which she also showed within the video, but said the family seeks to show their kids that, despite having enough money to buy this stuff, they don’t necessarily need them.
“We’re attempting to teach our children they don’t necessarily need that. Things are earned. You could have to work for things in your life. Not every thing is just going to be handed to you,” she said.
“But do I also not need to see my daughter being neglected or made fun of because she doesn’t have name-brand things? That’s how I grew up,” she continued, explaining that she, as a toddler, was mocked for not having name-brand clothing like other kids.
Motycka concluded the video with a message urging parents to show their children to not make fun of others for not having the things that they’ve.
The Stanley Cup craze has seen videos of shoppers storming Goal shelves to get their hands on the limited edition pink or red Valentine’s Day editions of 40 oz. Stanley Adventure Quencher Travel Tumblers in recent days, leading some people to say they were “nearly trampled” in consequence.
In a single TikTok video posted by @jazzedbyjaz, Texas shoppers cleared shelves of the coveted releases in lower than 4 minutes.
