[billy123]

How many of you are parents that criticised them?
Just wondering.

[Lee.]

Originally Posted by bobnot

How many of you are parents that criticised them?
Just wondering.

Was wondering the same

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

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

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by bobnot

How many of you are parents that criticised them?
Just wondering.

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.

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Cherie

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.

Totally agree.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by Cherie

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.

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

[Verbal]

Originally Posted by bobnot

How many of you are parents that criticised them?
Just wondering.

A big fat zero probably

[anne666]

Originally Posted by Verbal

A big fat zero probably

I'm a parent and a grandparent. As I said above I agree with taking the tickets away. The rest is not necessary. On-line humiliation and denegration of her daughter, her friends and their parents? NO! I dread to think what repercussions she and her daughter will have to deal with. Is this mother an angel? She has some serious issues IMO.

[smudgie]

Originally Posted by bobnot

How many of you are parents that criticised them?
Just wondering.

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.

[Tom4784]

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.

[Jack_]

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

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by Jack_

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

never thought we'd agree on something!

[Brother Leon]

Fake. Nothing to see here.

[Marsh.]

Tricks like this on OUR parents is how HALF of you were conceived .....And why a lot of your friends DONT have an address to send that Fathers day card to!!!

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.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by 08marsh

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.

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

[Kizzy]

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.

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

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.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

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.

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?

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

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.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

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.

You would think so, parenthood opened my eyes.... I hope it does for you

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

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.

As a mother, I absolutely agree.

[T*]

Hilarious!

[Verbal]

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.

[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]

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.

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