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Mom makes son pick up trash for bad behavior

A mother from Guiyang, Guizhou province, taught her 8-year-old son a life lesson after he caused damage at his school recently. She made him pick up plastic and glass bottles from the street and sell them for coins to pay back the cost of what he damaged. The video went viral and many netizens praised it as a heartwarming life lesson to teach children what it means to work hard. With a large bag of trash on his shoulders, the boy said in the video that he will not damage school property again.

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