[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Lee.

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.

[Verbal]

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

Youtube video

[Ammi]

..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....

[rk3388]

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.

[Shaun]

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.

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by Shaun

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.

Exactly. Any idiot can have a baby. And yes, there's no moral way to raise your child - everyone makes mistakes, but this is plain wrong.

If it was true, I honestly think it wouldn't have ended well for this girl. People would know who she was (come on, it's the internet, people would figure it out) and she would get teased to no end...

[anne666]

WOW, I agree with her taking the tickets away but why do the rest?

[billy123]

Good luck with raising a child in the perfect and idealistic way

You are being naive if you think you could raise a child without making mistakes and regretting some of the ways you handled things along the way.

Nobody said what this woman did was right not even herself but that didnt stop people judging her as a parent on this one thing. The fact it has been ammended already shows it was probably done in the heat of the moment.

Stupid comments such as "People seem to think squatting a person through your legs gives you automatic morality points" are hilarious. pretentious much?

Good luck being the perfect parent and making perfect decisions you obviously must be better at it and know so much more than everybody else.

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by bobnot

Good luck with raising a child in the perfect and idealistic way

You are being naive if you think you could raise a child without making mistakes and regretting some of the ways you handled things along the way.

Nobody said what this woman did was right not even herself but that didnt stop people judging her as a parent on this one thing. The fact it has been ammended already shows it was probably done in the heat of the moment.

Stupid comments such as "People seem to think squatting a person through your legs gives you automatic morality points" are hilarious. pretentious much?

Good luck being the perfect parent and making perfect decisions you obviously must be better at it and know so much more than everybody else.

It's posts like this that are truly pretentious.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

It's posts like this that are truly pretentious.

I happen to agree with him, I don't find it pretentious in the slightest.
Assuming one could do better is however.

[billy123]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

It's posts like this that are truly pretentious.

Awww defending your friends as usual how cute and predictable.

Nobody defended this woman it was wrong what she did but the righteous comments posted by some is just utter bollocks sorry to burst your cute little bubble but its so easy to preach what should be the way to do things but the reality is a completely different thing.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by bobnot

Awww defending your friends as usual how cute and predictable.

Nobody defended this woman it was wrong what she did but the righteous comments posted by some is just utter bollocks sorry to burst your little bubble.

People are just discussing the story and obviously will comment on whether or not they think it's good parenting, I don't see what the problem is. This woman was the one who made it all so public so she was obviously aware her choice of punishment would be discussed.

[billy123]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

People are just discussing the story and obviously will comment on whether or not they think it' good parenting, I don't see what the problem is. This woman was the one who made it all so public so she was obviously aware her choice of punishment would be discussed.

Theres a problem?

[lime]

I am a mother of 4 aged 21,20 ,17 and 8.I have no problem with revoking the tickets as a punishment,but if this is true (which I doubt) the mother comes across as an attention seeker.

[Ammi]

..no one said that they were a perfect parent or never made mistakes, of course every parent muddles through and makes decisions that they think are best and the most they can hope is that they make more good ones than bad ones....but what this woman did has only caused this attention because of the extremity of what she did, not in taking the tickets away because a lot of parents would do the same and that isn’t really very interesting stuff for people to read about, is it....but in making that statement on Ebay, which was completely unnecessary and imo just attention seeking for herself ...so if you do something like that which is so extreme..you’re going to get opinions on it, aren’t you because this isn't 'average, everyday' parenting...but isn’t that the point of it in the first place...she has the attention she wanted at the expense of others, including her own daughter...

[Kizzy]

Wouldn't it just be totally odd if it worked though?
If the kid appreciated the desprate attempt from this mum/dad to open their eyes to dangers they faced, and was essentially appreciative of the lengths parents are willing to go to in order to make clear their feelings?
She may not have listened before, she will be well aware now

[Marc]

This is brilliant

[Kazanne]

I must be a bit of a soft touch,lol I could NEVER do that to my daughter,let alone bragg about it and sell them,our harshest punishment is grounding her(she hates that).

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

I must be a bit of a soft touch,lol I could NEVER do that to my daughter,let alone bragg about it and sell them,our harshest punishment is grounding her(she hates that).

I think just taking the concert tickets would have been punishment enough tbh

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I think just taking the concert tickets would have been punishment enough tbh

I couldn't even do that Niamh,well not REALLY take them,I'de have to give them her back at some point so she could go.Just imagine if anything dreadful happened and you lost her,how bad and guilty would you feel,I know that's silly thinking,but that's just me

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

I couldn't even do that Niamh,well not REALLY take them,I'de have to give them her back at some point so she could go.Just imagine if anything dreadful happened and you lost her,how bad and guilty would you feel,I know that's silly thinking,but that's just me

Even if she lied to you about having a sleep over at her friends and spent the night with some older guy instead? I could

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Even if she lied to you about having a sleep over at her friends and spent the night with some older guy instead? I could

I know Niamh,I'de be furious,I'de be happy to ground her or take away her TV etc,I just think selling her 1D tickets and declaring it for all to see is far too hard,told you I'm a soft touch

[Marc]

I hope her daughter has cried so much that she has no energy left.

[billy123]

Originally Posted by Marc

I hope her daughter has cried so much that she has no energy left.

She would have been too tired to go anyway after getting ****ed by older men whose house she stayed at so the concert doesnt matter.
But make sure you arent too harsh to her.

[Ammi]

..yeah of course parents don’t always make the ‘right’ decision ..there isn’t a ‘right’ decision anyway, we all do what we think is the right thing and you don’t have to have children of your own to say what you think is right and what isn’t..but this isn’t about that, it’s not about her decision to take back the tickets..it’s about making that decision so public, which we definately don’t all do...if we feel our children’s actions deserve a sanction, then we enforce it without needing any declarations because it’s between us and our children..she didn’t even just declare it to friends and family but to the vastness of the internet, which she then has no control over..so she herself invited all opinions about it...