Some call it tough love, some call it shaming, and others even may see it as parenting done right. But when 31-year-old mother Valerie Starks from Denver discovered that her 13-year-old daughter had a Facebook page claiming that she was 19 years old and posting inappropriate photos to grown men she had "friended," she decided she needed to teach her daughter a lesson that she wouldn't soon forget.
Although her daughter's face is blurred in the public video that has gone viral, Starks made sure that her underage daughter understood the ramifications of posing as a 19-year-old on the internet and posting risque photos - actions that she would not tolerate as her mother.
Stark's parenting has been both praised and criticized. In the video, her daughter begins to cry but Stark wants to make sure her point is understood, not only by her own daughter, but by anyone who looked at the sexy photos she posted on her Facebook profile.
"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," she says sternly in the video.
Some commenters say Starks crossed the line into bullying by publicly shaming her daughter on the internet, but others say she is doing the right thing given the gravity of the danger her own daughter put herself in.
To her critics, Starks has one message, "I'm her mother before anything. I'm not her friend. I'm not here to let her do whatever she wants. My job is to raise her and sometimes that takes a little bit of tough love. It's not something I want to do."
She has a message to all the grown men who looked at her daughter's sexy photos as well. Telling them that her 13-year-old still watches the Disney Channel, and still has a bedtime, among other things.
"She's a kid, she's going to stay a kid and as long as she is under my roof she is going to do what I say," Starks says.
ATTN ALL PARENTS PLEASE WATCH WHAT HAPPENS TO A GROWN ASS 13 YEAR OLD... MY CHILD
Posted by Val HairLyfe Starks on Sunday, 17 May 2015
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