Dad sparks outcry with ‘harsh’ punishment for 8-year-old: ‘As a parent, you failed’

The Am I the A**hole subreddit is a place for people to freely share situations to be willingly judged by fellow strangers to see if they truly were in the wrong.

Some side with the poster, some can’t decide what’s right or what’s wrong and some, like in this case, absolutely obliterate the person for being awful.

A father recently posted on the forum, not necessarily because he was worried he had overreacted, but because his wife was disagreeing with him. His father-in-law had passed away and had had a close bond with the couple’s 8-year-old son.

“In the days leading up to the funeral, my son was obviously upset about his grandfather’s passing, but nonetheless we asked him if he wanted to go to the funeral and he said yes,” the post said.

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