AUDIO: MOM SHAMES 13-YEAR-OLD FOR SEXY FACEBOOK POSTS
A video is making the rounds of a Denver, Colorado, mother, standing on the sidewalk berating her 13-year-old daughter for pretending to be an older teenager and making suggestive posts on Facebook. She brings the girl to tears. Valerie Starks says, “You’ve got a Facebook page, and you’re on there with your bra on, right? Is that what you do?” she asks, as the girl begins to cry. “Don’t cry now. You wasn’t crying when you was posting pictures on Facebook, was you? In a bra? Some little girl in some lace panties that you know you don’t own. You still wear panties that say Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.” In another later video, Starks said she has been overwhelmed with support. She also said she’s made mistakes in her life that she doesn’t want her daughter to repeat. Starks says she’s a convicted felon “for being around the wrong people who had marijuana” and doesn’t have a job but is renting a room from her brother and going to night school to try to improve her situation. She said critics need to understand that she’s trying to do the best she can for her daughter. “I’m not her friend. I am my own village, and I am trying my best with this little girl. And she’s going to understand and respect me for it later,” she said. “The streets won’t raise her; the schools won’t raise her; the system won’t raise her. I will raise her if it kills me.”
* Sounds like she’s trying to move in on the Baltimore Mom’s fame.
* This could be a real disturbing trend: grandstanding mothers trying to out-shame each other.
* It’s like those over-the-top invitations to the prom.
* Hillary Clinton wrote “It takes a village” but sometimes the village doesn’t care.
* Take it from me, posing in a bra and panties for Facebook seems cool at the time, but later you regret it.
* That being said, I’d like to get some underwear with the names of the week on them myself. Then when the day comes around again, you’d know it’s time to change.
* I just wonder if I could get the days of the week written on my collection of thongs.
(video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSPm45TWlAo)
PHONE TOPIC: Is this the correct way to deal with the problem? Is this mom a bully?
CLIP: Full audio from the 2:30 video.
