"Mean" Mom Selling Son's Xbox 360
If you want to help out a single mother for a good cause, go bid on her son's Xbox collection. Yes, she is doing this as punishment. What crime did the lil' gamer commit to suffer a fate worse than military school? For starters, he:
- Neglected his regular (and simple) chores, such as taking out the trash and tidying up his room
- Purposely broke the vacuum so he wouldn't have to use it
- Has been checking out porn with the family computer (D'oh! Forgot to clear his browsing history!)
His mother has quickly taken action. In addition to putting his highly coveted Xbox 360 up for sale on eBay, she has password-protected the computer and (the coup de grâce) updated his MySpace profile with a picture of Snoopy!
Well, he deserves all that if you ask me! Though, I would have deleted the MySpace page altogether. As an Internet professional, I am on the Web up to 10 hours a day and there is no way I would let my young children have free reign with the computer. It is a scary world out there, folks!
Let your children be children for as long as you can.
This woman has been branded the "meanest mom in the world" by her disrespectful son. Boy, I can't wait to hear what my kids think of me when they reach this age. *cracks whip*
Via Kotaku
Sounds like he got off lucky.
Brian
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I can't believe parents would let a 13 year old have a Myspace page in the first place. My oldest is 10 and there is no WAY she is having a Myspace page until she is of legal consent. Ick.
Sounds like she is handling it all very well. Go mean mom!
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Oh, I completely agree! No MySpace, Facebook, Xanga, etc.
Sites like 4Kids.tv offer something similar to kids, but it is completely moderated and controlled. There is no private messaging or anything like that.
We've already decided that the kids will only use a family-sanctioned computer in plain view of everyone else.
Ick is right! Honestly, I think a lot of parents are so out of touch with the Web that they are oblivious to these things.
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Way to go, mom!
I loved reading all the comments she'd gotten in support of her action.
I hope she makes a lot of $$.
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I think leaving the site up with her additions is way more embarrassing than taking it down entirely. Honestly, I think that's what the point was.
Now, as a parent of a child that has myspace, I feel I need to defend myself. (Yes, I came out of lurk mode for this). My child has myspace with all her info changed to NOT say who she is or where. Sadly, I know some kids that I could probably just drive up to on any given day. These kids have info such as name, age, location -including what school they go to, and even where they hang out. Messages saying things like, "Hey, you want to meet at ____ on ____ street at ___?" My daughters is monitored constantly, it's set to private so she has to add the person before they see it, and she has to know the person before adding them. And, again, we do monitor it and have the password. Of course, she's over it and hasn't been on it in ages, but it is there. Also, we only have computers in community areas. They will NOT have computers in their rooms.
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Totally agree you did the right thing. Took courage, but your son will appreciate it...one day...maybe.
I am also in the camp of Nikki. My daughter has a MySpace. I agonized over this decision. I wrote about it on my site. http://tinyurl.com/56j4yt
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