Boy, 1, shocks mom by painting walls red: ‘You always laugh’

A mom has sparked a heated debate over disciplining children after posting a now-viral clip of her toddler redecorating her walls — with crimson-colored paint.

Indy Clinton from Sydney, Australia, posted a 21-second clip on TikTok of her son, Navy, after she caught him red-handed painting a white wall and the floorboards of her home.

“You. Are. Kidding,” the 25-year-old says in the video, which has been viewed more than 5.5 million times.

“Are you joking?” she continues in the clip, which she captioned “no words,” as she walks towards her 1-year-old son, telling him to “stop.”

“What did you just do?” she asks, panning around her newly red living room.

The mom then shows splotches of paint around the room as her son — also covered in paint — slips on the still-slick floor, and she starts to laugh as she tells him to stop again.

In an Instagram Story, the mom reportedly said she wasn’t in the room when the incident occurred.

“Mum’s busy brushing her teething, and putting hemorrhoid cream on,” Clinton wrote in a comment in response to someone asking where she was. “Forgive me for having a minutes to myself Karen.”

Clinton’s video was met with mixed responses, some thinking it was “adorable” while others questioned her parenting.

“How long was he left alone for him to do all that?” one user asked, with many wondering the same thing.

Others argued that yelling at her son wouldn’t help the problem.

“He is literally one, I don’t think yelling at him would help,” someone wrote.

“As a kid who was always yelled at, I admire your calmness. especially since you probably left for one min to do a wee,” agreed another.

“He thinks its funny because you are laughing. I don’t think he knows right from wrong because you always laugh,” commented another user.

While Clinton didn’t elaborate on what cleaning up the mess entailed, she did tell one commenter that it “was kinda therapeutic.”

Clinton is currently pregnant with her second child – a girl – and posted before about her parenting style, stating things she would never do as a parent.

“I was brought up with physical discipline — a belt, a wooden spoon, and I just don’t think that’s the right way to discipline your children,” she said.

“I get back in the day they did it at schools, it was the thing to do . . . if you do that to your child, that is your choice but a child is defenseless. It’s not cool.”

Other rules she said she would follow: never making them hug or kiss anyone, never forcing them to eat food they don’t like, never making them pay rent and never being strict with parties or curfews.

The Post has reached out to Clinton for comment.