I want to give this mom a cookie.

Sweet monkey jesus..a game and parent related news clip that actually shows the parent is doing their job? I am..speechless.

KUDOS!

I'll say it again... 13 Year old? Porno? Tsk Tsk. 13 Breaks stuff to avoid chores? Stupid, you gotta repay taht unless your parents are rich. Dumbass. Now you'll be screwed even longer.

APPLAUSE! 100% This mother is actually paying attention to what her kid does instead of blaming it on society like every other lazy ass parent. Sucks for the kid but he'll get over it.

*INSERT JOKE ABOUT HOW CONSOLE WOULD RROD ANYWAYS*

Right on; brats these days get away with far too much.

sounds like she's a great mom. and that kid needs some discipline. I suggest boot camp

This mom deserves a pizza.

A) Woulda whupped him.

B) The money to pay for a new vacuum would come out of his allowance/savings. Little brat.

You know, she could just surf porn sites with her sun and turn it into an enjoyable family bonding experience. Why does she need to get the mean mom label when she could be getting lots of love from her kid?

Whoops. Did that come out weird?

I approve. Good bedtime story, Kotaku.

....whats wrong with snoop dogg? xD

Whoo Hoo! One more kid not swearing up a storm on Live!
...one million to go...

*claps for the mom*

@Krytha: Just a touch...

My mom hide my SNES when i was a kid, and it took years until i could play with it again...

@Jechticknight: ditto. a parent thats not accusing the console of making her kid seek porn? such a rare thing these days it seems. i ever tried to skate from chores or did something stupid my parents took EVERYTHING i owned, boxed it up, and left me with nothing in my room but a bed, sheets, pillow, and a pillow case until i straightened my act up. pass wording the comp is one step in the right direction :) go mom!

Cleaning my cookies right now! I'd hate for mom to find out I've been browsing..KOTAKU! WHEN I SHOULD BE BROWSING PORNOGRAPHY!

Kudos to her for a job well done; still, gotta wonder what's gotten into the kid. Porn I'll grant for a 13 year old, but most 13 year olds don't break the vacuum to avoid chores.

All I can say is; bra-VO, "mean" mom. Finally, we see a mom willing to raise her kid instead of allowing the village idiots to raise him and then wondering why the lil' shit got out of control.

When kids tell their mom they're the meanest mom in the world it's probably 'cause they are doing things right. I remember back in my tantrum-throwing 5 year-old days I must've told her a couple of time, and now for that I thank her. Hope that kid will do that in a few years.

Good, he shouldn't have a Myspace page being only 13 years old anyway.

That's exactly what kids need these days. I am so tired of watching as each freshman class entering my university gets worse and worse. It's getting ridiculous. I think it's the cause of immature parents that are too lazy or scared to punish their children.

Hell I'm only 22, but I'm still scared of my mom. I'm 6'6" and she's 5'3". But it's not the size that matters. I respect her. She's a single mother who worked her ass off to raise me and my sister. And if I didn't respect her she would whoop my ass. Period. It sounds so wrong, but kids don't get beat enough these days. It's just a fact. Back when I was a kid my mom would whoop me anywhere and everywhere. House, store, parking lot, etc. They were all included. Especially the store. I remember when I acted up in stores my mom would give me the "look" and say "Wait till we get to the parking lot". Of course I tried to fix things between then and the checkout, but did that work? Hell no. My ass was tore up when I got to the parking lot and the groceries were in the car. God I love my mom.

Wow... for once the parent actually did something instead of blaming it on the game system. She should put a time restriction on his Xbox from now as punishment, and when hes reached the limit he'll have plenty of time to do his chores.

Oh and how could that kid be dumb enough not to clean the cookies? ALWAYS clean the cookies. :)

Justice is served. This mom is awesome. If only the world was full of more responsible parents, especially in the good ol' US of A.

I'd probably inflict worse punishment.

Now turn up the parental settings so he can only play viva pinata. Muahahaaaaaaa!!!!

@Krytha:

That kid would grow up so sexually confused it's not even funny.

I'm so with the mom on this one -- go her!

Tch. I learned to delete the Cookies fast.

Shame on the kid for being so lazy in his pursuits as to get caught. Yes, yes, what he did was wrong, and breaking the vacuum is a dick move, but honestly, it's his own fault he got caught in this. It takes less effort to cover your ass than it does to make up for it later.

@GrimCW: @Jechticknight: My thoughts exactly. It was really nice to hear that there are responsible parents out there. Glad she didn't blame him breaking the vacuum on GTA. If there's one thing I love more than video games, it's good parenting.

@Shocky: Brilliant!

@jayntampa: yeah, go mom!

What kind of kid these days doesn't know how to dump history and cookies? Jeez...

@PapaBear434: wincest? Heh, he'd end up with a mother complex.

I'm going to beat the shit out of my children every time they even think about stepping out of line.
I won't even buy them anything fun, and hopefully one day they'll thank me for it.

@Ashcraft: "Always listen to your mom and always clean out your cookies."

AMEN to that. Had one too many close calls when we used to have just one computer at the house... Let's just say you didn't want to place any single letters involving "p", "s", "r", and "x" in the address bar :x

Does that boy need a father? Plenty of elligible bachelors on Kotaku, Gizmodo and the other Gawker Blogs.

While it's nice to see parents doing *something*, I find it kinda hard to believe that just putting a password on the computer is going to help. I mean, it seems like it's going to do more to antagonize herself than to actually help the kid.

Kid needs to learn discipline, and it's a step in the right direction, but perhaps taking things a bit too far.

Wow -freaking incredible! I loved reading every single word. It warms this chilly heart of mine given my generally hopeless look at parental responsibility these days. Being a parent myself, I feel I'm among the (seemingly small) group that feels like I'M the one who's supposed to be raising my kid, and when he acts up, 1. it's because he's a kid, not some media-susceptible mindless zombie, and more importantly 2. It's up to ME to straighten him out, not the government or any constitution-raping ban on freedom of speech and expression. Kudos to "mean" mom -where "mean" means "one whose greatness others should strive for".

She sure sounds like a whore... I'd tap it.

Lol reminds me of that South Park episode Tsst.

LOL great parenting skills (could've ruffed'em up a bit but this will do).
The best part is that the mom sold/ is selling the 360 (maybe a new vaccum :D).
Awesome just awesome that is some cruel punishing skills right there, taking away what the child wanted most.

For safe, underage pornography browsing...

[www.unhsolutions.net]

Good Mom, that's what we need more of. That's the parenting I got, although, I had to teach my parents to check cookies. They were pretty techno-illiterate.

@PapaBear434: No, no! Haven't you heard? All boys are sexually attracted to their mothers since Freudian theory came out in 1910!

Why wouldnt someone want Snoopy on their MySpace?

Honestly Snoopy is the best possible thing to have on any site.

Added Note: Kotaku needs more Snoopy

Excellent parenting in my opinion and as far as the kid is concerned, could be worse, he could have been beaten. But, seriously though, I applaud this, more parents need to take this kind of control.

Finally! A story about a parent disciplining they're kid instead of just taking it. I'd like to see that kid try that shit if he was ME as a little kid. Get a spankin he would!

@BIZERK: Umm. . . uh?

@Krytha: Does that make me weird because I liked the girl next door when I was 13...

@BIZERK:

Pedophile alert.

Anyways, that kid needs a whippin followed by a spankin followed bya timeout

followed by a drop kick to the forhead

@BigPete7978: Yea, i agree, the new age psicological ways dont work, the only thing that works are the old ways, some spanks once in a while (of course not too hard, not too soft) and a little house work...

Great parenting by the mother. If I were still a kid and I busted the vacuum my Ma would've returned the favor and busted my N64 and my Dreamcast. Also more Snoppy on Myspace!!!

@jkingsowner: I find that dropkicks to the forehead solve many problems.

Good job, Mom. Keep up the good work!

On a related note, anyone who has anything bad to say about a single mom deserves to have a nut removed.

That mom is full of awesomeness and autorithy.

Beautiful.

Also... I have a Snoopy on my MySpace page... Does that make me a dork? :(

@BigPete7978:

Ass-whoopin's galore! A Russell Peters act should suffice here.

+ Watch video

@Black-Dog-Howls: She probably reminded you of your mother. No, wait. You repressed your love of your mom and invented a memory of an attractive girl next door. No, no, I got it now. Your dad made you fear for your penis, so you were forced away from your mom and projected your attractions onto this fake memory girl.

Go Freud!

I hate kids.

Only cookies my mom knows are... well... you know the rest of this sentence.

/obligatory mom + cookies joke

@Krytha: And you're probably homosexual! Hey, if Freud says so, than it's true. Like that Dostoevsky fella. Gay.

RESPEC' HER AUTHORITAY!!!

I'd hit it.

I mean the kid not the mom...
I meant the abusive way, not the pedophilic way.