Facebook Parenting. My new hero!
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The father's a Jackass. He went way overboard. Look at him in the video. He's about a gnatsass away from breaking a spring. He just dumped $150 into the laptop plus his time and effort and then he shoots it up??
His daughter was blowing off steam. How many of us have dome the same thing? Did you listen to what the daughter said in the post? If half of what she said was true the parents are keeping her in servatude. How many of you had to make and pour you parent coffee like you were some kind of waiter? Making her own bed and cleaning her room okay! But making all the beds and cleaning up after everyone? Nah! Sounds like the girl had some legitimate complaints!
The father posts the ridicule of his daughter on YouTube for crying out loud. Regardless of what that red neck thinks, Facebook is a closed medium. Youtube is wide open to the public.
It wouldn't surprise me if the next thing we hear about is daddy in the hospital with mysterious gun shot wounds he got in the middle of the night.
His daughter was blowing off steam. How many of us have dome the same thing? Did you listen to what the daughter said in the post? If half of what she said was true the parents are keeping her in servatude. How many of you had to make and pour you parent coffee like you were some kind of waiter? Making her own bed and cleaning her room okay! But making all the beds and cleaning up after everyone? Nah! Sounds like the girl had some legitimate complaints!
The father posts the ridicule of his daughter on YouTube for crying out loud. Regardless of what that red neck thinks, Facebook is a closed medium. Youtube is wide open to the public.
It wouldn't surprise me if the next thing we hear about is daddy in the hospital with mysterious gun shot wounds he got in the middle of the night.
C'mon Fudo! You think the father handled this well? He was way out of control and went world wide with the ridicule of his daughter. How well do you think that's going to work out in family relationships?
tuts40
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IMHO, and not knowing anything more than what the news will provide and what was available from them via youtube and facebook, it may be that the daughter has no clue regarding being a responsible and mature adult. She has about zero chance, however, to learn those skills from her father it would seem.
wooddoctor
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I must agree....that was not cool....he's should have SEt a better example for discipline.
Oh, I suppose sitting down discussing the issue would have been better? Sitting little missy in the corner for a timeout? Telling her she was a bad girl for such things and should not be that way? I would venture a guess that corporal punishment in school and in the home is out of the question also? Paaaaleeeeeeze!!!!! The major problem with children today is no fear of consequences for anything they do. His actions were extreme? No, I think his actions were justified. He paid for the laptop. He paid for the upgrades. He pays for her food, shelter, school, clothing, etc etc etc. Sounds to me like a typical ungrateful selfish teenager who wants to whine about everything but what she thinks her life should be like. Total disrespect for her parents, and everything they do for her. Maybe if more parents took some "extreme" measures with their children's attitudes and actions, a lot of the b.s. that goes on, wouldn't. I don't condone any violence beyond using that real meaty part of a childs ass to jump start their brains. My dad was an expert with a green switch on mine, and believe me....that will wake you up and make you think!!! My daughter is 30 and I can mention using a switch and she will sit on the couch and not move. Abuse? Hell no!!! I was not abused, I don't hate my dad (God rest his wonderful soul, I don't hate my mother, I am not a social misfit, I am not a drug addict, I am not a bum or whatever else you want to say corporal punishment at home will do to a child. I got my ass spanked in school too!!!! Guess what?? When I got it busted....I DIDN'T DO THAT AGAIN!!!!! I was well aware of the consequences for doing bad/wrong things. Maybe it is time to make today's little angels aware of the same. Maybe take the damn video game controller out of their hands, make them mow the lawn, clean the house, work in a garden, or something else that is little known in their worlds....WORK!!! They are gonna have a tough time without mom and dad when the time comes....no better time to learn work ethic, morals, responsibility, and fear of consequences when acting irresponsible. Who the hell else is gonna teach em? Some quality time in church thrown in won't hurt either.
My hat is off to him, I gave him a standing ovation. More parents need "over react" as he did. I would have done the same........cept I would have used a 12 gauge. Ok, begin the bbq as me as the main course.
My hat is off to him, I gave him a standing ovation. More parents need "over react" as he did. I would have done the same........cept I would have used a 12 gauge. Ok, begin the bbq as me as the main course.
Iam2Taz
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There are obviously people here who do NOT HAVE TEENAGERS! YOU have NO CLUE! Now, if you were blessed with great kids, then you were, well, blessed. Be thankful. I have seen the other side. Making your bed, making sure the dishes are off the counter and sweeping the floor is nothing. My experience tells me, they were her dishes any way.
Dad may have been off base, but he was perfectly justified in doing whatever he wanted. He wanted to make the point. He did. I am glad he is laying down the law. My dad busted my butt a time or two and I never forgot it. (I won't have a willow tree in my yard to this day!)
When my older one was turned 18, my wife and I threw his crap out in the front yard. He thought he could do whatever he wanted to do too. It took about 10 days for him to figure out that he couldn't just do whatever he wanted.
Dad may have been off base, but he was perfectly justified in doing whatever he wanted. He wanted to make the point. He did. I am glad he is laying down the law. My dad busted my butt a time or two and I never forgot it. (I won't have a willow tree in my yard to this day!)
When my older one was turned 18, my wife and I threw his crap out in the front yard. He thought he could do whatever he wanted to do too. It took about 10 days for him to figure out that he couldn't just do whatever he wanted.
fudo
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I wouldn't have destroyed the laptop. I would have donated it to Wounded Warrior Project, or similar charity. Other than that, the daughter got what she deserves. First; for taking family business outside the family. Second;for being ungrateful. Third; for being lazy.
I grew up in a working class family. Mymother was a single parent (father was a rat.)with 3 small children. My sisters were too small to do anything but the most basic of chores. I got my first job when I was 14. By that time I had grown accustomed to eating and sleeping indoors, and I knew that if I wanted to keep doing that, I needed to help out. I was taught that a man takes care of his family, I was the only man in the house, so I handled my responsibilities. The girl referenced in the video thinks she is entitled to a free ride, that her parents should work to support her and that she has no responsibility to help the family. Her chores are nothing compared to what I used to do, and that many teens and even younger children do, to help their families. She's lucky the parents aren't charging her for room and board. So, yeah, I'm 100% on board with the dad.Ingratitude is a terrible character flaw. I lived in Japan for a couple of years, and I can tell you that this girl wouldn't last a week in a Japanese high school.
fudo
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Did you make that piece of BS up yourself? Or did you get that off of a cereal box?
wooddoctor
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Take it easy on the lib turd...he may not have taken his medicine funded by the tax payer.
I raised four children and never once had to use physical violence to discipline any of them. And I never ran out of ways to discipline them.
I know there are people who lack the intellectual capacity to out-think their children but that is no reason to excuse a parent when they act and think like a child. If they can't or refuse to be educated about parenting then they shouldn't be parents.
My most strong willed daughter, the one who offered the most difficulty in disciplining, is a second year law student at Penn. She did her undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins where she got a dual degree in physics and math. Apparently my method of disciplining my children worked out just fine.
I think most, notice I said most, would agree that there must be a long standing problem in the parent / child relationship long before this idiotic video was posted. If I heard right this was the culmination of a lot of frustration on both sides of the relationship.
The girl was venting her frustrations to her friends, just like I would do. Except when I vented, I didn't have Facebook. I would have been at the ball field or in the back yard of a friends home or at a gathering of friend. Why vent? It was to get moral support to carry me through a lousy situation. From the letter the idiot dad read, it sounds like his daughter was going through the same thing. She was venting to her friends, even if the letter was addressed to her parents.
You also have to weigh the level of the reaction to the infraction. The girl posted on Facebook. Primarily a narrow selection of people. Youtube on the other hand is a world wide medium and that he chose. Let me put in another context for you. this would be like me telling my friends at a party that my parents are mean to me, my father finding out and then dragging me down to the center of Times Square during the New Years celebration and publicly ridiculing me. There is a huge difference.
The father over reacted IMO. If you notice he mentions a mother and a step-mother. No mention of the girls last name, at least I didn't catch it, so there is a question of who she is living with. Is he her blood father?
In my opinion (yep spelled it out) the "man" in the video has a real anger management issue. He's dealing with a child. It sounds like the child in the relationship feels she is being 'over worked' but because of the existing relationship, she can't go to the parents and talk to them about it. THAT is a problem. And judging by the over reaction of the father, the girl is probably afraid of her parents. THAT is also a problem.
At first blush, the video is "cool" because we've all wanted to do pretty much the same thing at some time as a parent. Hell, I can't tell you how many times I wanted to smash my kids X-Box or the Boombox. But it is not something I would put on the World Wide Web for the world to see.
There is definitely a problem in that home starting with the relationship between the husband and wife. Since there is a stepmother mentioned in the video, it proves he's not the award winner in the relationship category. And it looks like his daughter is the next victim.
Donating to the Wounded Warrior Project would be a great idea! Too bad the idiot didn't think of that first. And if he had stopped at that I'd be behind him all the way.
Part of the problem with video is we only see one side of the argument. It's not like here where we can actually have an exchange of thought. Heck we don't even know if any of what the "dad" said was real. It could be some guy trying to get notoriety by posting a wild video.
The problem I have is the Word Wide public ridicule he used as his punishment for a teenage girl venting about her situation. I don't know what the history is between the man and the girl. I don't know if the man is her blood father (there is mention of a step mother) there is a whole lot that we don't know about the background. Hell the man could be a child abuser and he's just taking his show on the road to get the audiences approval.
What I do know, is if you look at his face and listen to the broken speech pattern and hear the anger in his voice, the man is way out of control of his emotions or he's a real good actor.
I completely agree that ingratitude is a terrible character flaw. I've know people that carry that flaw. But remember, the ingratitude has to start somewhere. You're not born with it. Ingratitude is a learned trait. Maybe it comes from broken homes where her father can't keep a wife. Maybe this girl gets disciplined at the drop of a hat. Mind you I'm not defending her. I AM condemning the father for his actions.
fudo
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Since we don't know the particulars of the divorce, no assumption can be made as to his fitness as a parent or husband. His ex-wife could be an inveterate tramp,drug user, or alcoholic. She could be bisexual with a lesbian lover as well as a husband.
The girl deserves the public ridicule for her miscreant behavior. Since her name was not given, only the people who recognize the father will have anything to say to her. I suspect that she and her friends will be more circumspect in their public temper tantrums. It seems to me that many teens in this country have an entitlement mentality. They think other people are only there to serve their needs. When I was teaching, I received many complaints in the first semester because I did not accept poor work, or cheating, or being too lazy to do your own thinking. I used to hear things like" We have to write out the whole words?" The second semester was a different story.A number of students told me that I was the best teacher they ever had.
I think that the father used facebook to get his daughters' attention based on the principle of "hitting them where they live. I really would love to hear the daughters' response.
JeshKidney
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He should have just put a video reading the post and shooting the lap top
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