TikTok Mom Divides Platform After Throwing All Of Messy 5-year-old's Toys Into Trash Bags

A parent on TikTok has sparked debate on whether her intense solution to her five-year-old refusing to clean his room was effective parenting or traumatizing behavior.

Late last March, user @tabathamarie posted a TikTok in which she explained that her son had ignored requests from her for two days to clean his room. After the child retorted, "You clean it, Mommy," the user packed all of her son's toys into trash bags.

"Momma is not raising no disrespectful men," she wrote. "It is not a 'mommy's job' or a 'woman's job' to do anything. You make the mess, clean it up."

The video garnered a divided comment section, as some users argued she'd taken it too far while others said the tough love was necessary. One user noted that when her Mom did this to her, she "learned real fast" to clean up after herself. Another said that when his parents did that to him, it "traumatized him forever" and that cleaning is still an "extremely stressful task." Others felt that she should offer to help him clean and teach him rather than jumping to such an extreme response.

In a follow-up video, @tabathamarie said her son had been cleaning his room for a year by himself and he knew that the backtalk was inappropriate. She also said he had ADHD and goes to a lot of therapy.

If this video and the Bean Dad saga have taught us anything, it's that you should probably not document your parenting habits on social media. As for the toys, they are bagged in the basement and have not been collected by dump trucks. The son, she says, will get them back when he's earned them.