--- title: Brat Daughter's Katy Perry Tickets Sold on Facebook By Fargo Mom description: Said she "didn't deserve" the tickets, and they sold in 5 minutes canonical: https://time.com/3079421/katy-perry-facebook-brat-daughter-ticket/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-04T15:05:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:46.300Z og:title: Brat Daughter's Katy Perry Tickets Sold on Facebook By Fargo Mom og:description: Said she "didn't deserve" the tickets, and they sold in 5 minutes og:url: https://time.com/3079421/katy-perry-facebook-brat-daughter-ticket/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0adbb880f44d328b/69869e4455a8594b85a820a9/452996886.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2267 og:image:height: 1275 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-SPECIAL OLYMPICS-PERRY og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Brat Daughter's Katy Perry Tickets Sold on Facebook By Fargo Mom twitter:description: Said she "didn't deserve" the tickets, and they sold in 5 minutes twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0adbb880f44d328b/69869e4455a8594b85a820a9/452996886.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mom Sells 'Brat' Daughter's Katy Perry Tickets on Facebook > Sponsored content. 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(MANDEL NGAN--AFP/Getty Images) MANDEL NGAN—AFP/Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Aug 4, 2014 3:05 PM UTC It’s old-school discipline with a social media twist: when one North Dakota girl acted like a “brat,” her mother reportedly sold her Katy Perry tickets on Facebook to punish her. In a Facebook post which started “[daughter is a spoiled brat and doesn’t deserve these tickets,](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2711952/Mom-punishes-spoiled-brat-daughter-18-selling-Katy-Perry-tickets-online.html)” Fargo, N.D. mom Cindy Bjerke sold her daughter’s Katy Perry tickets for $90 within five minutes of posting. They were reportedly sold on [Fargo/Moorhead Online Garage Sale Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/groups/171921109594096/), which requires administrator privileges to view. Bjerke’s punishment drew criticism from other parents, who thought she didn’t need to publicly humiliate her daughter. “I think a lot of parents are like me where they feel like they’re being bullied about how they should parent their own children,” Bjerke told local media outlet [WDAZ. ](http://www.wdaz.com/video/3703789689001) “It doesn’t matter what side you’re on, you’re always wrong to somebody.” The post was then removed by the Facebook page’s administrators. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3079421/katy-perry-facebook-brat-daughter-ticket/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3079421/katy-perry-facebook-brat-daughter-ticket/"},"headline":"Mom Sells 'Brat' Daughter's Katy Perry Tickets on Facebook","datePublished":"2014-08-04T15:05:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:46.300Z","description":"Said she \"didn't deserve\" the tickets, and they sold in 5 minutes","url":"https://time.com/3079421/katy-perry-facebook-brat-daughter-ticket/","keywords":["Living","Family","facebook","motherhood","Katy Perry","North Dakota","Fargo","Daughter"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0adbb880f44d328b/69869e4455a8594b85a820a9/452996886.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0adbb880f44d328b/69869e4455a8594b85a820a9/452996886.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-SPECIAL OLYMPICS-PERRY","caption":"US-POLITICS-SPECIAL OLYMPICS-PERRY","creditText":"MANDEL NGAN—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3079421/katy-perry-facebook-brat-daughter-ticket/","name":"Mom Sells 'Brat' Daughter's Katy Perry Tickets on Facebook"}}]}] ```