One mom on Reddit is asking if she’s the only one dealing with this issue when her child is only in kindergarten.
According to the mom, her daughter, who is only in kindergarten is being bullied because she doesn’t carry around a “real” Stanley cup.
“My daughter has always been a girly girl,” the mom wrote explaining who the situation started. “She will sneak my small purses and take them to school [and] tried to sneak my Stanley once.”
After seeing her daughter’s desire to use her Stanley cup, the mom decided to get her daughter one of her own. Except she bought her young daughter the knock-off version, rather than pay more nearly $40 for the name brand.
“I’m like okay well here, not thinking she’d know the difference, we got her one similar,” the mom explained. But as it turns out, her peers have started picking on her.
“She said now they pick on her at school saying she has a ‘Steven’ not a ‘Stanley.’ Like, oh my god,” the mom wrote. “I remember these days but in KINDERGARTEN!!??”
Several other parents in the comments sections shared their two cents. Many people admitting that “this is the result of kids having access to social media at way too young of an age.”
While others encourages the mom and daughter to lean into it by going on Etsy to “get a sticker that says ‘STEVEN’ to put on the water bottle.
And more moms shared how they handled ruthless bullies their kids encountered. “I taught my 6-year-old son that people like that were genuinely tragic and to be pitied, because they care so much about things that will end up in a landfill,” one commenter shared.
“He isn’t mean about it, he actually told a kid ‘I’m so sorry that you care so much about garbage.’ He legit made the kid a card, ‘because that’s what you do when someone is sad.'”
“Someone made comments to my 4th grader about his chain not being real gold,” another commenter shared. “And he was like ‘well, obviously, a real gold chain costs like $8,000.’ Thankfully, he doesn’t let stuff like that bother him and I hope he can keep that attitude through middle school but I am sooo not looking forward to it.”