Parents go on strike, Move to front yard

Here's one way to get your message across.

The dishes, garbage and dirty laundry would pile up for days when Cat and Harlan Barnard's teenage children refused to do their chores. So the Barnards went on strike, moving out of their house and into a domed tent set up in their front driveway. The parents refuse to cook, clean or drive for their children - Benjamin, 17, and Kit, 12 - until they shape up.

"We've tried reverse psychology, upside down psychology, spiral psychology and nothing has motivated them for any length of time," said Cat Barnard, 45, as she sat in a lawn chair at an umbrella-covered table.

Personally, I would've made the bratty kids move to the front yard, but then the parents would've been arrested for child abuse or something. Thanks Cheryl for the link.

Posted by Jake on 12/09/04 @ 10:24 AM
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MojoMark said on 12/09/04 @ 11:04 AM:
A very public admission that they were lousy parents and are now attention deprived adults. Maybe they should have got the kids involved around the house when they were toddlers rather than waiting for them to be teenagers. I wonder if the kids do well in school? I know which side I'd be betting on.

Arabella J. Finster said on 12/29/04 @ 06:16 PM:
This Couple (of idiots) has admitted publicly that they are totally inadequate as parents. How could they let their children get to the point of laziness and filthiness and self-involvement that those kids are in? Only through incredibly lax and stupid parenting! then the parents' response is to go public and camp out on the lawn? these two should be put away and the children permanently removed from the home. I suppose that they had an oriental carpet from Michaelian Co. in their tent?

Charlie Boyd said on 12/29/04 @ 06:19 PM:
Personally, I think that you could yell, See-Cody-Far! all you want and them two so-called parents wouldn't get the message. that Harlan sure is an ugly SOB and kinda looks like a Bronx slum landlord, dontcha think?

215 E. 91st Street said on 12/29/04 @ 06:21 PM:
All I know is, that $20 every time I visited, with a "go, get yourself a toy" didn't seem to endear me to her. How about you?

Hummalito Hirohito said on 12/29/04 @ 06:23 PM:
did you ever have a hum job? Done by red-headed twins? Now that's something worth striking for!

Choreography by Mr. Bruce said on 12/29/04 @ 06:25 PM:
Frankly, I think that a tattooed dentist is infinitely preferable to a president with his head up the butt of the Arab oil sheiks. Whadda you say?

Delia said on 12/29/04 @ 06:26 PM:
All I know is, Yom Kipper beat the sheeeit out o' shabbos!

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