I doubt it's real but if it is, the mother is an embarrassment and has made herself look like quite the hateful bitch by not only embarrassing her own daughter but attacking her friends and their parents too.

I bet she has a lot of friends.

Puts hand up. Not criticising the action of selling the tickets as punishment if that is what it is, just don't see the need for the online rant, does everything these days has to be played out on line including berating your offspring?. Still not convinced it is real, just a way of maximising profit on the tickets, and it's working so hats off to the business brain who came up with the idea.

Hellz yeah more parents are starting to fight back. The computer guy and now this! http://i39.tinypic.com/hv3ss8.gif I too have had enough of this generations spoilt kids, even though I don't have any yet. Parents for the win http://i39.tinypic.com/hv3ss8.gif

Totally agree.

Well kids only value the sting of things if done online so parents do it online :D

Nasty, what a way to talk about your daughter

I'm sure she wouldn't think this is so good if her daughter killed herself due to the inevitable humiliation and bullying she's going to endure

Disciplining children in public in order to embarrass them is cowardly, bully-like and pathetic

Fake. Nothing to see here.

A big fat zero probably

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I call fake. If it isn't, the mother needs to take a look at her own attitude, attacking her daughter's friends and their families.

But the shocking thing about this is that they're charging $599 to watch 5 amateur singers walk from one side of the stage to the other and back again. Those boys really are stealing a living.

Funny where the line is drawn.... at 24 you can do anything almost and be excused for it it seems, smuggle drugs...piss everywhere....
But the minute you have a child this miraculous event occurs and you morph into mother earth?...
No, it doesn't work like that you still retain your own personality. Reading through this person has been taken for a fool, lied to and humiliated by their own daughter initially, how must that feel?
2 wrongs don't make a right, but to experience the same feelings and emotions as you inflict on others can be a good life lesson.
It's evident they as a parent felt humiliated, embarrassed and exasperated, parenting teens is more mentally exausting as you see the dangers or have experienced them yourself, and yet they can't....
I really hope that this teen understands when this dies down that sometimes it is necessary to go to extremes to make yourself clear, or to make a point... if you think your child is at risk or in danger you do anything, it may seem unconventional even slightly nuts to some, but when you feel that scared and desperate I totally understand how she could get to that point.

Doing something like this is just hypocritical and incendiary, it's just plain old bad parenting.

You can't do something that's low to teach your kid a lesson and then expect them hold themselves to a higher standard. Kids learn by example and stunts like this help no one.

never thought we'd agree on something!

What in your opinion is good parenting dezzy?
It's not low it's unorthadox but horses for courses everyone is an individual, there is no universal manual for raising children.
The teen may never forgive her, then again she may just be shocked into realising the depth of feeling involved here?

Good parenting is being a good example to the kids, you can't expect someone's behaviour to improve if a parent behaves in a similar way. You need to hold yourself to a higher standards if you want your kids to do the same. Kids tend to take after their parents in both good and bad ways, you just have to pass on as much of the good as possible.

:xyxwave: I am.

I would never make such a public show of either myself or any of my family.

With a mother like that, heaven help the offspring.

Hilarious!

Some people in this thread need to get some perspective. It will make her a suicide risk etc.

Please.

We are talking about one direction tickets

She was taught a lesson in one of the few ways you can get at children these days. 10 years from now the girl will probably laugh at it.

Daves already told our daughter that if she goes to high school in a few years and becomes a problem teenager he will go and collect her from the school gates in a dress. Teenagers react well to embarrassment. ;)

:joker: there is a really wooly generation coming up who are like one massive WI. Shout bloody murder at the most ridiculous things. How many over 30 here would have gotten a smack from their parents if they pissed them off as a kid? Do that these days and you'd be in court. Ridiculous. I remember once having a huge argument with my parents and I started screaming that I was going to ring social services, my father gave me the phone and said go on then :joker:

:joker: :joker: :joker:

If you can relate to this then you will probably think the Aussie mother is great

..I would say there isn’t anyone on this forum who either isn’t a parent or has a parent, which makes no one more or less qualified to express an opinion on this mother and her style of parenting in how she dealt with this..(if it is true..)...of course people who aren’t parents have an equally valued opinion on what a ‘good parent’ is as most of them have them, themselves and look to them for guidance and as examples of how to deal with the things that stretch them in life, which we all face sometimes...in my opinion taking the tickets was a good call but the rest (and if it is true)..is nothing but self-gratifying attention for herself....but hey ho, it’s the internet age....

..so you're not a huge fan of One Direction then Marsh...

Tbh i think its pathetic of the parents if true.
Taking the tickets away is one thing, and I think thats totally fair, but complaining about your child and her friends on THE INTERNET for everyone to see is horrible parenting.

I don't have to be a parent to know that it's not right to publically imply my child and her friends were all accidents, call them all bitches and trollops (sic), and generally set out to humiliate them in the first place. This could've been done without the high and mighty public service announcements.

People seem to think squatting a person through your legs gives you automatic morality points. This is a clear example of the contrary.