One critic shot her down, saying, “It’s very childish how you handled it,” implying that she ought to have let the boy’s parents to administer the punishment.
The disagreements are heated and never-ending.Shannon, in the middle of all this chaos, explains her behavior by expressing a mix of neighborly solidarity and disobedience.
A startling twist is revealed by her: she and the child’s relatives are friends. Actually, Shannon quickly straightens up the fact that the father’s first outburst was due to his ignorance of his son’s prank.
Shannon casually mentions that “the kid and his dad were laughing about it today,” which may potentially inflame the argument more.