Parenting 2.0: Mom pranks son's MySpace as punishment
Grounding him to his room would only be a blessing: video games, TV, the Internet, movies, phone, etc. Getting him to do chores has already proved fruitless. Perhaps in another time-period, she would've beat him into a coma with a yard stick, but today's politically correct nation requires Parenting 2.0 -- officially trademarked, copyrighted, and owned by T-Mobile.
After taking away his Xbox 360 and putting it up for sale on Craigslist and Ebay, she password protects the computer, preventing him from accessing it. The finishing touch? Upload a picture of Snoopy onto his MySpace page, which is apparently a very uncool thing to do nowadays. "I'm a single mom," she said when asked about the event, "I can't let them walk over me or I might never get up."
Though we could suggest meaner and funnier things to do to his MySpace profile for next time -- possibly anything involving lemon parties -- we won't.
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Ryan said 12:26PM on 4-15-2008
Ugh. Kids are dumb now a days. If it's not your personal computer, delete your history. I own my own Macbook Pro now, but I didn't always. I deleted history and cookies daily.
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Joe said 1:45PM on 4-15-2008
Or just don't do it at all... DOH!
Bufsabre said 2:17PM on 4-15-2008
some of us like snoopy
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rodents said 4:25PM on 4-15-2008
Who doesn't like Snoopy?
kingkool68 said 3:45PM on 4-15-2008
I don't get the parenting 2.0 - T-Mobile reference. and props to the tech savy mom. We need more of them/
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LostOverThere said 2:59AM on 4-18-2008
That's quite said, most children become interested about sex. I think its quite disappointing that she didn't discuss to him that he shouldn't have done what he did, it could be great bonding time. At 13 its not unnormal to be interested in sex, I'd consider you strange if you weren't.
She should be ashamed of herself, maybe someone needs to block her from the computer might give her time to think what an awful mother she is. No wonder shes single.
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