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handmade34

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7. NOT sound or proper parenting!!

Reply to Decaffeinated (Original post)

Fri Sep 20, 2013, 10:57 AM

Sep 2013

a good parent does not respond to disrespect by calling a child out publicly...

fine to sell (or otherwise not allow the girls to use) the tickets but the rest is (in my not so humble opinion) disgusting!!

No wonder there is so much dysfunction and disrespect in society today...

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Public humiliation or sound parenting? [View all] Decaffeinated Sep 2013 OP

One of the oldest sales tricks in the book. Brickbat Sep 2013 #1

Maybe... Decaffeinated Sep 2013 #2

"I don't know if I'm that excited to see a concert, but a chance to humiliate a teenage girl? el_bryanto Sep 2013 #3

If it sells the tickets then its a win Johonny Sep 2013 #16

Exactly -- and people are posting the link all over the place. Buzz 101. Brickbat Sep 2013 #18

Way to go, Mom! NOLALady Sep 2013 #4

Call Your Daughter A Trollop, Sir --- You Are An Ass-Hole, And Not Competent To Raise A Goldfish The Magistrate Sep 2013 #5

. NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #9

The Actual Elements Of the Situation, Sir, As Claimed, Anyway The Magistrate Sep 2013 #11

Toxic, indeed, Sir. The entire household needs adult supervision, at a minimum. NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #12

Agreed gollygee Sep 2013 #19

Wish I could rec this kcr Sep 2013 #21

Just a *little* too much self-satisfaction in the tone of that write-up, IMO. NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #6

Kids can easily learn to be self-righteous and lippy Mariana Sep 2013 #17

NOT sound or proper parenting!! handmade34 Sep 2013 #7

I raised six. I'd get rid of the tickets but the publicity is way too much. virgogal Sep 2013 #8

Yep. Gormy Cuss Sep 2013 #22

I agree. If the kid is lying and staying the night the at someone's house the parents do even liberal_at_heart Sep 2013 #23

Mom sounds like Alec Baldwin... RevStPatrick Sep 2013 #10

Wow. Mom needs a time-out, and some good parenting skills. DLevine Sep 2013 #13

Protection from schlock pop Precisely Sep 2013 #14

+5 points for using "trollop" in a sentence. MineralMan Sep 2013 #15

Some of both seveneyes Sep 2013 #20

Tickets are up to $710 Australian. Wonder if that's over face price? Shrike47 Sep 2013 #24

Proper parenting? You gotta be kidding me. Sheldon Cooper Sep 2013 #25

In general, I think people should refrain from writing or sending bitter and angry messages ecstatic Sep 2013 #26

Skillful marketing perhaps, but utterly atrocious parenting (if true)... nt petronius Sep 2013 #27