Don’t waste your time screaming at your bratty teenagers and threatening to ground them, fools – a new parenting benchmark has just been reached.
The far more effective method to get your image-obsessed teens to feel your wrath is obviously to resell their Katy Perry concert tickets on Facebook. With a public header screaming ‘SPOILED BRAT DAUGHTER DOESN’T DESERVE TICKETS FOR SALE’.
Duh.
That’s what Cindy Bjerke did when her teenage daughter started playing up. She sold her daughter’s beloved Katy Perry tickets for 90 bucks online, in about 5 minutes flat.
But rather than praise Bjerke for figuring out the perfect way to get the better of a misbehaving teen in the 21st century, the internet proceeded to tell her she was completely and utterly failing at life, parenting and just generally being an acceptable human being.
She copped it from a lot of parents who felt the punishment was way too harsh.
But Bjerke handled the criticism like the hard-ass parent she is: “I was not going to let her go to this concert with the behaviour that she’s been doing,” she told local news.
Take a look at her ‘absolutely no apologies’ stance:
So, hard-ass parenting for the win, or too much tough love?
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I know a teenager who had a pretty poor report from school. As a consequence, his mum took his smart phone and gave him a dumb phone. It was an old style flip phone that he was so mortified to answer. He got it back after a couple of months where he pulled his socks up and took some responsibility for what was happening. I thought it was brilliant! He's now quite a different kid.
Assuming the mother bought the tickets, then it's her right to sell them if she doesn't feel her daughter deserves them any more. I think that's punishment enough though. I really dislike this phenomenon of parents making their children's wrongdoings public by broadcasting their punishment to the entire internet. It would have been very easy for her to sell the tickets, without saying anything about why. No one would have asked.