 Estella Havisham, a single mum to a 13 year old called Aaron, has attracted both wild applause and condemnation for writing this tough-love open letter, demanding that Aaron return to behaving like a child rather than a flatmate after he lied about doing his homework and was rude to her face. Here’s the note: 
 
 It reads: 
 
 Dear Aaron, Since you seem to have forgotten that you are only 13 and I’m the parent, and that you won’t be controlled, I guess you will need to learn a lesson in independence. Also, as you threw in my face that you are making money now, it will be easier to buy back all the items I bought for you in the past. If you would like your lamp/lightbulbs or access to the internet, you will need to pay your share of costs: Rent: $430 Electricity: $116 Internet: $21 Food: $150 Also you will need to empty the trash Mon, Wed & Friday as well as sweep and vacuum those days. He'll also have to empty the trash, sweep, and vacuum every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; clean his bathroom weekly; and prepare his own meals. If you fail to do so I will charge you a $30 maid fee for every day I have to do it. So Estella left him a note filled with epic tough love, explaining that he was going to act like a terrible roommate instead of a loving son, he could pay her like a roommate. She then posted the note onto Facebook with the message below, where the whole post was shared over 80,000 times: 
 
 The child is going to have a rude awakening today after the words he exchanged with me last night. "Not only will he find this on the door, but his mattress stripped, and the toys and clothes that I bought confiscated. He will have three options... Buy his own, rent his clothes at $3 a day, or renegotiate his terms of being a child. Mama's done playing games and being a doormat." When Aaron read the letter, he stormed off, took a long walk and eventually circled back to his mom's room to apologize for his behavior: "I'm so sorry, mom. We were not abused but we knew crossing the line brought consequences. The mom wanted to teach her son, Aaron, a lesson familiar to kids his age: If you want to be treated like an adult, you have to start acting like one. "First off, you're my child, you don't get to talk to me that way. To make a point, she took away his clothes, comforter, Legos, stuffed animals -- even the lightbulbs in his room. As one mum said to me, “In fact, I’d say my teenagers push back less today than I did, because mobile phones mean I can keep track of them and know what they’re up to.
– "Mama’s done playing games and being a doormat." That was an Australian mother's message to her 13-year-old son when she decided to charge him more than $700 a month for rent, electricity, Internet, and food, Kidspot reports. According to CBS News, it all started when the single-mother's son told her she couldn't control him and bragged, "At least one of us is making money," during a fight over homework. She's unemployed, and the teen apparently makes a small income from his YouTube channel. Deciding her son was acting more like a bad roommate, the woman—going by Estrella Havershim—wrote a letter to him outlining his new bills and shared it on Facebook, where it went viral, Seventeen reports. It's been shared more than 160,000 times as of this story. In addition to the above bills, the letter and its accompanying Facebook post assigned the teen chores in lieu of a $30 maid's fee and a $3 per day charge for renting his clothes, Kidspot reports. "If you decide you would rather be my child again, instead of a roommate, we can renegotiate terms," the letter concludes. Though she took flak from people calling the letter too harsh, she also drew support from people around the world, with one Facebook comment reading, “Kids these days need a hard lesson so that they become better adults." CBS notes another stated, "We need more parents like you." The tough-love letter apparently worked, with the rebellious teen eventually paying with chores and an apology instead of money. (For parents with bratty kids, there's hope on another front, too.)