Well i do think your friend is a bit immature and heartless...you don't let a child go hungry because he's famished this is no way to treat them..it's normal that children feel hungry often because it's their growth phase and they have a healthy appetite...what she did was awful..she jsut needed to talk to him and make him understand the importance to share!!!

Sorry but i find it quite funny !! It seems as if it was the Mother herself who was deprived from lunch, she was just taking her revenge on her son for not sharing his lunch with her, like her two own kids. Well i think she had to punish him that much but not that way. She could have obliged him to to some household e.g Cleaning his room for 1 month or whatever but not by depriving him from a meal! In fact they've both missed one meal that day and everything seems to balance!! Somehow i still think she could have punished him otherwise...

I dont necessarily think that is cruel...that will show him not to do that or there are consequences the child will haev to face...I dont think she should do it often and hope she does not but i think it fits ...

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maybe the younger son was too hungry that he had it himself. it may not be his intentions to do so but hunger can make you do anything

How old are her two sons?

Couldn't she give each one seperate lunch?

And for the punishment, she did the right thing, in this way, her son will realise how his brother remained without food and hungry all day!

I think that it is not a good way to punish a child.You are only showing a child how to retaliate.Your friend should have talked to the younger one and make him understand that his older brother has been hungry during the day because of him.Anyway why did your friend not separated the lunch?

I do not think that she should have punished the child like that.She is giving a bad example to the child.She is showing her how to retaliate.Instead she should have spoken to him and make him understand that what he did was not right and that he should not repeat it again.In this way I think it will have been a lot better and the child will have learn a lesson.

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My friend is always complaining about her parents playing favorite with her younger sister. I told her that it’s very often that younger siblings got more attention that older ones. I think that this mother knows how to treat both equally. I mean, the older one went without lunch earlier; it’s only fair that the younger one now goes without lunch.

she should not punish his son like this children are often naughty at this age speciallly when go to school meet new friends they have the tendency to neglect their brother/sister who are studying in the same school she should talk to him calmly and make sure that this mistake should not repeat in the future