Friday
20Nov2009
Parenting In the Real World: What Do You Think?
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:00AM I posted the following status on Facebook:
Free to good home: One 18 year old male. Hard worker, pleasant and civil to everyone but his parents. We pay for shipping.
The parents who responded were encouraging. One of my child’s friends politely took offense at my status thinking I was trying to publicly shame my child.
What do you think?
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Reader Comments (17)
I think only another parent of a teenager would understand. I've offered up my 17-year-old. I attribute her snotty, disrespectful attitude to being a senior in high school. I was talking to another mom and we decided that this attitude that hits during senior year is God's way of making the impending college/"real world" separation more bearable for all parties.
I think that the friend who took offense probably doesn't have a parent on Facebook! I know that I have personally used FB to get a message across to my son when all else failed. He didn't like being embarrassed and therefore, stopped the offensive behavior! Keep posting!
I read the posting. I think your sons friend needs to get a sense of humor.
I loved your status. Whoever complained doesn't understand sarcasm or humor. Hell, I've threatened to put my wife on eBay before (as a joke of course).
I think it's funny. I'd post it about my husband...it's the normal joking that goes on between people who love each other.
I would hope that by 18 your child would know that you're not SERIOUSLY out there trying to sell them!
And hopefully you raised your teenager with a better sense of humor than your "friend" seems to have. ;)
I think this is hilarious. Some people take offense to easily. This was obviously in fun.
Lol, i also think it's funny. I cannot blame others also, they're taking it seriously.
I LOVED Anna's response.
I think we all (parents & teens) need a sense of humor to get through the teen years!!
Oh, yours is not the first Facebook post I've read with kid for sale as the topic. I would never write that because it would be no use...nobody else could deal with my son. LOL ;)
It's cute.
What my 14 yr old son says to adults about his facebook status is: 'Please do not meddle in young people's affairs." I think the inverse can also be said for this case:
"Young people, please do not meddle in parent's affairs."
Plus it has really helped that I've un-friended my son in facebook. lol.
This is a very interesting topic. Cam I please talk about it in my blog? Please please please... ( I will put the proper link.)
My comment is that if your son reads your blog, you are doing all right!! No, it would not shame him, but if he were to read it, he'd know you at least love him enough to give him away!!
Talk away Kat!
A sense of humor goes a long way in the face of a perceived offense! People are people, God is God, who rules?
i asked the same son about this topic.
he said, yes, it is offending.
man, i thought he had a better sense of humor than that.
guess it just means I have to not sell him online, maybe on newspaper ads. hohoho....
I think... you birthed him... you can totally embarrass him to help keep him in line. Plus the fact that he even read it and felt embarrassed means that what you say/think of him matters. So he should be a bit more respectful in the future ;)
maybe a girlfriend would want to buy him.