China mother wins online applause for pouring water on son after he wilfully wet classmates
Woman makes son stand close to their flat, pours water on him from second floor to teach him a lesson
A mother in eastern China poured water on her primary-school-aged son multiple times as a form of punishment after he doused his classmates at school, sparking applause online.
Nearly 6 million people on Douyin viewed the clip of the mother dumping water on her son, who was standing outside their housing block in Zhejiang province.
Identified by her Douyin account name, @lanxichen, she instructed her son to stand closer to their second-floor flat window while she continuously poured water on him from a small basin.
Despite her son’s protests, she insisted on carrying out the punishment.
When the boy began screaming “No!”, she asked him: “Why not? Didn’t you say this was fun?”
The mother was punishing her son because a teacher had called her earlier that day to report that her son had thrown water on his classmates from the school’s third floor, in addition to tossing milk cartons at them.
