Meanest Mom on the Planet

Submitted by mary on Thu, 01/10/2008 - 18:32.

And I thought I was tough. Victoria, my 15-year-old daughter, and I were having a conversation about "kids these days". From clothing to the music kids listen to, cell phones, internet... it all came down to this: If parents would all just collectively stand up to the garbage that we're fed about "having" to be accepting of the newest fashion trends... then they wouldn't stay fashion trends for long, would they? Consider the statement "Everyone else has one." or similarly, "Everyone else wears these." Well, it wouldn't be "everyone else" if enough parents just put their foot down and said, "Not my kid."

When it comes to more serious issues like teens and alcohol and drug use, parents really need to be tough and firm. We often hear of parents hosting drinking parties so that their kids aren't driving drunk. They justify all sorts of bad behavior by citing that is is a "lesser of evils". Well, evil is evil. Consider this case of a mom who really took a stand. 

I think what impresses me most about what this mom did was that she put it out for public exposure. She could have just quietly sold the car and handled the situation privately. Parenting doesn't occur in a bubble. We need examples like hers to help assure us that we aren't the "only" "Meanest Mom on the Planet".
If only society would hail her as a saint if she had found condoms in the car. 

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