Bad parenting anyways you look at it, she should of taught them not to be stupid in the first place, she shouldn't have let them do it more then once, it wouldn't have done that much damage if it was only done once and she shouldn't of sold them on ebay and even if you can defend all that, she put a pic of her kids on fucking ebay that's stupider then what the kids did, they take after the mom 

Honestly if my kids wrecked my bath tub I would take their Beyblades away. But I wouldn't take their picture and place it on Ebay to brag about punishing them. Also I'm not sure how much damage one time use of the bathtub would do but she should have stopped her kids before they did damage.

If that were my kids (Assuming I had kids) I would take the Beyblades away I'd also take what money they had to pay off some of the damage. But in all honesty thats about all I would do. I could ball them out for alittle while, but kids don't think these things through they probably had no idea the Beyblades would do that. A stupid idea.

In the end I think the kids needed to learn, you damage someone elses property you pay for it. But I do think the mom putting the toys on Ebay with a picture of her kids to humiliate them and gain publicity, is horrible. Bad parenting you don't put your kids picture on Ebay.

its because she is demonstration piss poor parenting. Remember what happened to the generation that was humiliated? they became rebellious hippies who were drinking, screwing, and getting high young. This wasn't the answer. Yes making the kids pay was, going this far wasn't.

Also, it's very obvious the parents were letting the toys play babysitter. The mother failed to read instructions to make sure things didn't get out of control. It states clearing in the instructions to keep the tops in the battle arena. If she would have actually taken the time out to understand the toys more clearly instead of taking the mentality that they are "specialized tops that just hit each other" this wouldn't have happened as ground rules would have been set way before hand.

That's what i'm on the fence about, I think the fact that one was crying really made it an issue.

Seriously, in order to experience public humiliation one needs to care about the public opinion, and kids famously don't. Posting your kids' photo on eBay is more of a clueless act for entirely different reasons.

And she probably told them plenty of times, I can bet she's the one cleaning their bath so the gradual damage could have hardly escaped her. We also lack any information whether there were other punishments before it came to this. And I'm very much pro paying attention to what your kids do and not letting toys and games do it for you, but if that meant policing them about the same thing over and over (maybe after you spent the day at work and came home to clean and make dinner) then nobody would want any kids sometime soon.

Anyway, is this article serious? The poll is retarded, not to mention bits like "rewarding her boys for their ambition in creating a larger arena" and the 4chan involvement. Though in retrospect she might have gotten the hint about what posting pics like that publicly does, just like her kids have probably gotten theirs about destroying stuff around the house.

And that's SO different from teenagers today.  :P

@alekth:  Yeah, I doubt the kids will care they showed up on Ebay.  In ten years, however...

In 10 years it might even be a good laugh, if it's still around. A slight embarrassement at most, definitely not humiliation. Kids crying because mum punished them, not so earth-shattering for people to care after the buzz of the unorthodox has passed.

Yah being twenty two I gotta say alot of my high school buds were doing this and worse. Heck most of them became alchoholics by the time they were legally able to drink. Drugs, sex , alchohol and cigerettes are just what young adults (Teens included) seem to think is normal and permissable.

I sorta wish the cops caught half these guys maybe a little tough love from the law could help them straighten out their lives.

Terrible terrible masochistic mother.

Because of the lack of an apostrophe in the thread title, I thought it said "Mom puts kids on eBay" at first.