Woman tried talking to stepdaughter about being a fashion bully in school but it didn't work - she then took her shopping

It's always up to the parents or the primary guardian of a kid to educate them about being polite to others. However, some youngsters with domineering and brash personalities might take longer to understand why they should treat their peers with respect. One mother from Utah decided to take a unique approach to make her stepdaughter understand why she shouldn't bully others, per ABC News. Talking to Good Morning America, Ally Olsen made headlines in 2013 after she made her stepdaughter wear thrifted clothes to her school to punish her for bullying others. 

Initially, it might have looked like a harsh step to others but the mom simply wanted to teach Kaylee Lindstrom, her then-11-year-old stepdaughter, a basic lesson on empathy. Olsen was informed by Lindstrom's school that a fourth-grader was getting teased by Lindstrom and a few other students because of her clothes. Olsen and Lindstrom's dad, Mark, tried reasoning with the youngster about her wrongdoings but they weren't successful. ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​   

"She needed to know how inappropriate she was behaving," Ally Olsen told Good Morning America's special correspondent, Cameron Mathison. "She said, 'You're ugly, you dress sleazy, you're mean.'" After that, Olsen and Mark came up with an idea to take Lindstrom on a shopping spree. However, there was a little change in their shopping destination. Instead of heading off to a posh clothing store or a mall, Lindstrom was taken to a thrift store where Olsen made the 11-year-old pick up some of the ugliest clothes she could find. "She would pick out stuff and say, 'Mom, this is the ugliest thing I have ever seen' and I would say, 'Oh yeah, put that in the cart,'" Olsen recalled. ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​   

Lindstrom was surprised in the couple of days that followed when Olsen and Mark made her wear those thrift store clothes. "Terrible," the young girl informed her parents when she returned from school, describing the bullying she received herself while wearing the thrifted clothes. "I was like, why would they do that to me," Lindstrom said of her classmates who taunted her mercilessly. "I'm still a normal person. It doesn't matter what you wear." Fortunately, the young girl appreciated the lesson she learned after experiencing the bullying firsthand. Later on, she developed a sisterly relationship with the girl she previously used to bully. ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​   

Olsen's goal was to place Lindstrom in the shoes of her bullied peer and to show her how distressed they might feel after getting ridiculed for their clothes. "We really think if you felt how this little girl feels, you might have a little empathy for her," Olsen added. "She learned exactly what we wanted her to learn. We couldn't be happier." "For us, we really feel like this was the best idea and the best solution for Kaylee to be the best person she could be," Mark concluded. ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​  ​