No parent is perfect.  

And it’s by no means easy to raise kids.

And sometimes, in very unfortunate situations, being a parent becomes no longer possible or feasible.

Which is why it’s so great to know that instead of just abandoning their child, parents can now turn to the glory of the Internet to sell their unwanted sun/daughter.  
This brings us to an unidentified man who goes by Rick, who as of February has been posting on the popular buying/selling website Craigslist looking for people to buy his son Gavin.

So… assuming you went on to Craigslist to search for a new son to add to your family, does Gavin seem like a good purchasing opportunity?

But how do you know if Gavin is really a great kid?  How do you know if Gavin would be right for your family?  How do you know what his unique interests are?

Ah, good to know.  But refusing to eat vegetables??  Guess he’ll just have to be trained better to finish all those brussel sprouts.  But now that you know this, are you curious about what else he refuses to do?  Can you tell whether he’s easy to handle?  Do you think he’s whiney, annoying, irritable?  Do you think he can be disciplined?

Oh, word.  Thanks for sharing your parenting techniques with us, Rick.  You’re clearly doing a good job there, although the fact that you’re posting to sell your own son on Craigslist is a little fishy… but nothing too out of the blue I suppose.

Anything else you want to share with us potential buyers, Rick?

Aw, how sweet.  This really shows that Rick cares.

So, after reviewing these posts more thoroughly, do you think you might want to buy Gavin??  Or would you rather just stick to shopping for used Bose headphones and perusing for summer jobs that require you to take your bra off…

Ultimately, it’s just nice to know that there are so many different things available to buy, sell, and discover on Craigslist.  And don’t forget about the “Missed connections”!

ARE YOU RAISING A DOUCHEBAG?: YOUR INDULGENT PARENTING IS SPAWNING A GENERATION OF ENTITLED HIPSTER BRATS.

BY DAVID HOCHMAN (Details magazine)

Let us begin with the assumption that if you are a parent, you wish for your child every advantage and opportunity. From the ergonomic high chair to that all-important first sushi experience and beyond, life should be as golden for your little one as it is for, say, Pax Jolie-Pitt.

But inevitably the moment arrives when all your doting and care come back on you in the form of a precocious little barb that reminds you in no uncertain terms of … you. It might be that his friend Jake’s eighth-birthday party was “unbelievably lame” or that “it’s weird that Brandon’s family flies first-class and we don’t,” or maybe it’s simply that “these taquitos taste like turd.”

It’s then that you must reckon with the real possibility that your drive to make little Johnny better, smarter, and hipper has merely turned him into a douchebag. Put it this way: If it’s your child, not you, who gets to choose your weekend brunch spot, or if he’s the one asking how the branzino is prepared, it’s probably time to take a hard look at your own behavior.

It’s not like we’re the first generation to turn out Frankenkinder. Since the dawn of time, parents have been dressing their kids in ridiculous sailor suits and dragging them on ski trips to Gstaad. But lately it feels like we’re scaling new heights as bad examples. We create parenting blogs that transform our preschoolers into fetishized celebrities. We subscribe to magazines that suggest buying a 5-year-old a $400 Marc Jacobs cashmere hoodie. We think it’s cute when our kids learn to text message (until we realize POS means “parent over shoulder”) and quietly rejoice when they can tell which Ramone is Dee Dee and which one is Joey.

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