Mom sells daughter

[Hum]

Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - A Fargo teenager is learning a hard lesson after her mother sold her Katy Perry tickets through a Facebook garage sale group as punishment, but the mom's parenting techniques are drawing some criticism.

Cindy Bjerke's 18-year-old daughter had section 50 seats to the Katy Perry concert, but because of some so-called disrespectful behavior, the teen will have to miss out on the pop star.

Cindy Bjerke/ Fargo Mom: ?I was not going to give her the tickets... I was not going to let her go to this concert with this behavior that she's been doing.?

But it was the way Bjerke sold the tickets that's coming under fire.

She posted a short ad to the Fargo-Moorhead Online Garage Sale Facebook page.

Bjerke: ?I had a header that said, 'spoiled brat daughter doesn't deserve these tickets... For sale.'?

That header is drawing some criticism from other parents.

While some of the parents I talked to here in downtown Fargo think the tactic was a little too extreme, Bjerke says her post had more than 200 likes and plenty of supportive posts before the site's administrator removed it.

Bjerke: ?Most of it has been overwhelming support, and I think that a lot of parents are like me, where they feel like they're being bullied on how they should parent their own children.?

The flurry of comments prompted the page's administrator to remove the post, saying it detracts from buying and selling.

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 I don't think calling the kid a spoiled brat is unacceptable if the kid was in fact being a spoiled brat. Did that phrase belong in an ad? Probably not, but the fact that this is causing enough outrage to spark a news article is pathetic.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

The mum seems to care more about the number of likes she got.

[LimeMaster]

Sometimes you've got to question why this is even news.

[+Anarkii Subscriber²]

Gotta agree with Limey here, I see this crap on my newsfeed all the time, and I wonder how this would make the news at all

[He's Dead Jim]

Why does an 18yo girl even like the mainstream corp KP? wheres the rage of youth, the anger.....

her mum's actually done the kid a favour...

[ATLien_0]

Why is this news....its because of social media

I feel like that this was a pretty common type of punishment when I was growing up. My parents and friends parents all threatened to sell stuff they bought for us if we acted up. The only reason this is drawing criticism is because we have social media now

[Hum]

Makes me feel good -- and I don't even know who Katy Perry is. :laugh:

[Zodiarck]

So this is "news" :P ahahah :D

[Grinch]

So, the 'daughter' was 18 meaning she was an adult. Doesn't that make it theft to sell her tickets without her consent?

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Doesn't that make it theft to sell her tickets without her consent?

 

Not if the parent bought them and hadn't formally given them.

[+Warwagon MVC]

Makes me feel good -- and I don't even know who Katy Perry is. :laugh:

 

She's the Female Singer with the great looking pare of real ######. Apparently she's really proud of them!

 

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[fusi0n]

What a looser.. The daughter is 18. Her mom just need to calm her ######

[+Warwagon MVC]

The mum seems to care more about the number of likes she got.

 

Lets not forget they don't always mean like. On facebook people will like anything.

 

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1223549-people-will-like-just-about-anything-on-facebook/

[adrynalyne]

What a looser.. The daughter is 18. Her mom just need to calm her ######

The price one pays for living under Mom and Dad's roof.

 

What kind of pansy society have we become that calling someone a spoiled brat makes news?

[DocM]

18 is a legal adult in NoDak. If she were 15** to 17 then I'd give mom props, but with the daughter being an adult who's acting like an asshat all I'd do is give her an eviction notice.

**(no concerts 'til then in this house, and then with a parental escort)

[compl3x]

Maybe if the kid gets to 18 and is still acting like a spoilt brat you should review how you've been disciplining her for the first 17 years.

 

 

18 is a legal adult in NoDak. If she were 15** to 17 then I'd give mom props, but with the daughter being an adult who's acting like an asshat all I'd do is give her an eviction notice.
 

 

 

Yeah, I've seen how that turns out. Kids getting kicked out of home, usually for relatively trivially wrong doing, and then getting involved in some pretty nasty business because they have no money or no where to live.

[+Eternal Tempest MVC]

What a looser.. The daughter is 18. Her mom just need to calm her ######

 

Depends, if her Mom paid for the tickets or the daughter. One is her own property, the other is theft. 

[Razorwing]

She's the Female Singer with the great looking pare of real ######. Apparently she's really proud of them!

 

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only you'd post a picture Warwagon  :laugh:

[xpablo]

18 years old.and mommy tries to teach you a lesson. Wow! When I was 18 I was already out of my parents house and had to work.

"Spoiled Brat" ~ well who spoiled the brat? Mommy &/or Daddy, the parents are to blame, thank god they didn't ground her or take her BMW away...

(I dunno any of the facts or if they have a BMW, so I'm making it up as I go along). Maybe Obama can giver the Spoiled Brat a Pardon, or maybe Katy Perry will come to the rescue

for this grand publicity stunt or maybe they'll get their own reality TV show out of this, Is that A&E knocking on our door?

[techbeck]

Good for the mom.  And who cares what she called the post.  Parents complaining are probably the same parents who use the easy approach when "parenting" their kids.  I am all for  tough love and sticking by and making sure the kids are doing what is needed.  No of this friends with your kid crap and being easy on them when its obvious the each approach does not work.  And doesnt matter if hte kid is 18.  I have known "kids" in their 30s acting the same way.  Still the parents kid and obviously has a lot of growing up to do.

[x-scratch]

since when is 18 still a teen???

[techbeck]

18 is a legal adult in NoDak. If she were 15** to 17 then I'd give mom props, but with the daughter being an adult who's acting like an asshat all I'd do is give her an eviction notice.

**(no concerts 'til then in this house, and then with a parental escort)

 

If the kid is living at home, they follow the head of the houses rules, period.  And if the teenage "adult"  has problems with it, then she can take her mom to court unless her mom bought the tickets.

since when is 18 still a teen???

 

Teenager until you hit 20.  And still then, a lot of 30, 40, or older people act like teenagers.  Its more than the physical....mental as well.

[ZakO]

since when is 18 still a teen???

eighteen, since always.

[t_r_nelson]

Peoples outrage with this is ridiculous.  She's 18.  It's not like she's an impressionable, young child.  We better expect tougher skin on kids by that age.  If not, we're in big trouble as a society.  And I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the daughter probably knows she was being a little ###### and didn't deserve the tickets after what she did.

 

As long as mom bought the tickets, she can sell them.  If she didn't, then there's gonna be trouble on the homefront.