Great Ad - Meanest Mom in the World

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cycofan

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This ad honest to goodness ran in the Des Moines Register yesterday. Kudos to mom!

“OLDS 1999 Intrigue. Totally uncool parents who obviously don’t love teenage son, selling his car. Only driven for three weeks before snoopy mom who needs to get a life found booze under front seat. $3,700/offer. Call meanest mom on the planet.â€Â
 
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popcorn

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There should be more of us! I had my step son before a Judge because he was in a house while he knew there was marijuna. This was in the 1970's. HE was a law abiding person from then on!! And very strict with his two boys!

Liz
 
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Donna - dsw

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Gotta love her - make em learn early on. That is the problem with most young adults today - parents too care of them all their lives.
 
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Cruise cutie

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:grin..he was sommmeee lucky it was not me either..my kids for a while called me "the Biggest *itch Mom on Richardson Road..=lolgang.. actually I had a discussion with a girlfriend who lived on a different hill..and she had the same tag on her street; by her kids..TOO FREAKIN BAD!!!..:evil..., and oops 8 years later....

the total of our 8 kids...my 5 and her 3...all college educated, have jobs, pay their bills ON TIME.....and oh yeah have never had ONE single court date either..Go figure...:dizzy..

you live by the sword, you die by the sword..

we told our kids "we don't have to be your friends..you got them by the buckets..we are your parents, and we said NO, and we MEAN no!!.." tough.. if you don't like it...there's the door, and DON'T let it hit you in the *SS as you go out.....

Kudos to her.!!.. all our kids Thank us now!!...:)..Joanne..
 
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Mbandy

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C'mon Joanne, get off the fense and tell us how you REALLY feel =lolgang

I feel the same way. Better to be a "bad" mom selling the car than to be a "sad" mom ID-ing the body. I'm sure this young man will remember this lesson for a long, long time.
 
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Cruise cutie

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:(..the sad thing is Michael we had 2 DD's lose their best friends in 2 nasty awful car wrecks 27 days apart in 1999.. and let me tell you.. it was the most tears I have ever seen my 4 girls pour out of their souls in my lifetime.. they had to do an unbelievable lot of growing up..and the repercussions still rebound 9 years later..it's still tough for them to talk about..broke our hearts for their parents.... stupid decisions by kids way too "beyond the moment".. those 4 parents are still not the same.. 2 divorces later and split families.. and none of them will ever be the same..Heather and Chelsea were 16, and 17..trapped in time, lives blown way too young..

and all my kids wondered before the wrecks and AFTER WHY we were so strict.. they know now.. but those were some tough years the first 5 years Mark and I put on the books.. That Momma is Smart to say the least.. at least he'll live to whine!!..Joanne
 
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GloBug

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People who don't have kids wonder why I say IT ALL BEGINS AT HOME. People who have kids, people who have been involved with their kids, all understand.

My daughter told me a few months ago that the BIG reason she never got into drugs or alcohol was because I was always "in her s*it." She's almost 20 (in a few weeks) and as she was leaving the house today it was, "ok, where ya going, what ya doing, when will you be home."

I predict she'll be the same way, and that's a good thing!
 
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MoJo2Rusty

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A friend of mine lives in Iowa near where this happened. He said that the car sold almost immediately. I have since seen where she said she was going to continue the add at least another week because of the positive response she has received. Said she had not received one negative phone call.
 
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JacquieP

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My folks were much stricter than that when I was growing up, and we all managed to live through it. You really have to admire moms who choose to be the exception to the rule these days. He may not be happy with her now, but if his mother has managed to save just one kid from becoming a statistic, he's a lucky person.
 
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Whimsy

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I'm another mean mom. I always tell young parents that it isn't a popularity contest. You weren't put here to be their friend. Sometimes I was DD biggest nightmare.
 
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ShipMaven

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Kudos to that Mom. :thumb Wish there were more like her.

The story ran on our local TV news Thursday morning.
 
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dldancer

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What a great mom! I don't have any kids but I was raised by parents with high standards. We knew what they expected and what the reprecussions (sp?) would be if we didn't live up to it. They expected good grades and as long as they saw us work hard to get them we were cool. We had chores and got grounded if we didn't do them.

We never had an official curfew. They believed that the curfew changed based on what we were doing and where we were going. For example if we were going to a 7:00 movie and then to Burger King, our curfe might be 10:30 or 11:00. Why say midnight...there's too much time between then and the movie to get into trouble.

My brother and I were both good kids and our friends (for the most part) were good kids. Neither of us were ever in trouble. I thank my parents for that...even if I don't tell them enough! :)
 
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