Teachers aren’t strangers to receiving nasty emails from miserable and ignorant parents. And it seems like they get them all the time. Though that might just be because those parents tend to be louder and more obnoxious, most parents are completely different. Some will go out of their way to show kindness, especially if their children love their teacher. One Minnesota teacher, for example, for surprised to find a handful of incredibly sweet emails from her student’s parents!
TikToker Ms. B (TikTok/tlcwithmsb) shares the first email of a parent wishing her a good time in Mexico, then wondered if she could pick them up some “real” vanilla. “The stuff they have here, it just doesn’t what it needs to for my recipes,” the parent said. They also offered to said Ms. B money over Venmo. Sadly, Ms. B admitted she didn’t get the email in time due. The school, she said, locks her from checking email when she’s outside the country.
Another of the emails is asked by a student relaying their parent. They first said Ms. B’s sunburn looks “really bad,” and attached a recipe that prevents it from peeling. Additionally, if Ms. B didn’t have the ingredients, that was okay. They would make it anyway, as long as Ms. B would come get it, which she admits she might try.
And finally, another parent relaying through their child’s email was “concerned that you’re not gonna have enough money or a place to stay.” They offered Ms. B a place to stay, with their second cousin’s uncle in Playa del Carmen.
The comment section of Ms. B’s TikTok video were elated by the incredibly nice emails. Not only did they praise the quality of vanilla, insisting it was actually worth the trip, but shared their own wholesome experience. “The lady asking for vanilla is me as a mom,” one commenter stated on the teacher’s TikTok video.
Likely from seeing the trend swing the other way, one TikTok user said, “I was prepared to be mad, but they were very sweet.”
Another commenter was extremely touched by the hospitality the families were offering. “I go to Mexico a lot and my Mexican friends will tell me that they have family in a random town that can come get me if I get scared,” they said.
One commenter suggested anyone going to Mexico should just get vanilla simply because “someone in your life wants it.” She recounted how her father would grab some in Mexico every month, both for the house and “aunts and family friends.”
What’s particularly wholesome is just how willing her student’s parents were to help her. Even if it was for something temporary like sunburn. With a remedy for clearing it up, too!
