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If you don't like his style of parenting use another method. It's none of your business how he raises his kids.
 
If you don't like his style of parenting use another method. It's none of your business how he raises his kids.

Well to be fair, he did put it out there for the public to see, so he did make it other people's business. Not saying that I disagree with what he did at all; I'm all for it. The people that are trying to make this about guns and violence are missing the whole point, though.
 
Unique punishments make kids know they cant just expect a bullshit "you're grounded". Grounding doesn't do much.

I was a kid and acted a fool during church. When we got home I had to kneel on uncooked rice for an hour (the duration of church). My moms told me if I didn't want to kneel still in church on comfortable padded kneelers, I could do it at home on a hard wood floor on uncooked rice.

I didn't act out in church again. I got to give her props. She never had to punish me twice.

Some people would be appalled at a punishment like this. But I was an asshole, so I deserved an asshole's punishment.

I remember the first time my dad heard me call my mom a bitch. I had to kneel on corn kernels in the corner of the room facing the wall, and I couldn't touch the wall or the half hour would start over. Only had to do that once.
 
One of the things that isn't discussed is that there were probably some ground rules that the dad had in place for Facebook: parents on friends list and have the right to view what is going on her page. For those that want to be all "she needs her privacy and they shouldn't intrude" write in a friggin' diary! It is best to learn that the internet isn't private and it is forever. It seems she broke her parent's rules a few times. He already took the computer away and that didn't work, so the next progressive step was in order. The question isn't "isn't that dad crazy for shooting that computer?", it is "do parents have the right while their daughter is less than 18 and under their house to control under their own terms what she sees/does, unless she emancipates herself from her parents?".
 
I remember my punishment when I called my mom a bitch as a kid. I had to walk out to the weeping willow, cut a nice switch, and bring it back to get my ass smacked with it. I'd cry the whole way out to the tree, cut the smallest limb, come back crying the whole time. I'd get told it wasn't big enough, I had to go get a better one. After about 2-3 trips of it, I had cried myself completely stupid. I never once actually got hit by it.

Just the fact that I was responsible for the amount of pain I was going to receive *choosing the branch*, I never made the mistake of calling my mom a bitch again.

I still find it hilarious that the one person that never bitched about this video throughout the whole ordeal is the daughter. But yup, her relationship with her father is just too damaged to ever be repaired.
 
I still find it hilarious that the one person that never bitched about this video throughout the whole ordeal is the daughter. But yup, her relationship with her father is just too damaged to ever be repaired.

She can't get on the internet to complain. Her car is next. :hide:
 
Good point. But isn't there a happy medium somewhere between coddled and getting bullets shot through her laptop? I'm not saying she doesn't deserve punishment or that what she did should be excused. But I think this father lost sight of the fact that she's a teenager and teenagers, by and large, are fucking stupid sometimes. I got caught shoplifting when I was 16. Just got my license. My parents didn't go put a bullet through my transmission. They picked a punishment they found suitable without embarrassing me publicly and it sent a clear message. Had they shot my transmission (or whatever the equivalent is in this case), it would have been damaging to our relationship, probably long term. Instead, they were reasonable and still sent the same message. I never stole again.

He said this was the second time - she didn't learn the first time. You got the message the first time, she didn't.
 
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Exactly, she's SIXTEEN. Teenagers act up, teenagers lash out, teenagers don't fucking listen to their parents. Period. Why are people acting like this is some uncommon thing for a teenager to act like this?!

Fact is, there are way more constructive ways to get to them than to shoot a fucking bullet around them. I don't give a shit if it's at an inanimate object or not. This isn't even about "being a pussy" or all that hokey "being about the kids" b.s. It's pretty simple, if you know how to parent, stuff like this just isn't necessary.

Guaran-fucking-tee this absolutely tarnishes their relationship. And he's gonna wonder why...

She didn't listen, she went & did the same thing he told her not to do. How is that any different than any other teenager?!

I think what she did would be equivalent to taking out a newspaper ad back in the day when Facebook didn't exist and belittling your parents to the public. I think people (kids?) lose sight these days on just how disrepectful their actions on the internet can be. Perhaps it's because they sit on the other side of the monitor where most of the time they aren't caught. Just because everyone else gets away with it doesn't mean it's OK. He may be a little late in the game trying to discipline the issue, but better late than never.
 
Exactly, it was not too harsh. Shooting the laptop was not harsh. Maybe it should've been donated or given away, not shot, but who gives a fuck. Taking away the laptop was not harsh. Giving his daughter some tough love was not harsh. Grounding her was not harsh.

Fathers can be such MEANIES, you know? God.

When I was being a pain and my mom said those famous words "I'm going to tell your father" or "wait 'till you father gets home", I knew I screwed myself. What happened to those days?
 
I shouldn't say the public views him as an idiot, but I don't really buy a "thumbs up" on youtube as any real indicator either - I can like a video on sheer entertainment value. Bottom line is most parents don't publicly discipline their kids because its wildly over the top, and draws more negative attention to your family in the end.

And I'm sure most here have lashed out at there parents at least once or twice while a teenager. And I doubt most would have liked their parents to go create a video about it for the entire world to see.

You can discipline a kid appropriately without creating a youtube video and vainly showing it off to the world. The idea that vast majority of parents can't and don't discipline their kids is wildly out of touch with reality.

Back 'in the day', I didn't have Facebook to air my dirty laundry. About the most comparable thing I could have done was run out in the middle of the main street during rush hour and started yelling to everyone that my parents are assholes. The comparable response then might have been a good ole' ass kicking in the front yard for the neighbors to see.

I think this is nothing more that evolution in progress.
 
So people really think its a good idea to embaress your child in front of half the nation?

His punishment is understandable but putting it on youtube is retarted...

Glad my family solves family issues within the house and not on Youtube.
 
So people really think its a good idea to embaress your child in front of half the nation?

His punishment is understandable but putting it on youtube is retarted...

Glad my family solves family issues within the house and not on Youtube.
She embarrassed him and his wife on Facebook. To her friends. To, possibly, her friends' parents. :confused:
 
She embarrassed him and his wife on Facebook. To her friends. To, possibly, her friends' parents. :confused:

Which is wrong.

But two wrongs dont make it a right you know.... Just because the kid did the mistake doesnt mean its a good idea to do the very same thing to her just as a punshiment.

At the end of all this the real punishment will not be the destroyed laptop but beeing embaressed in front of 30 million people. Which seems like a unreasonable, extreme punishment.

Anyways this video wasnt about parenting but about this wannabe cowboy father´s ego...shooting the laptop on youtube is attention-whoring and immature. Why not just sell the laptop or donate it or whatever.

The immaturity of the father is reflected in the kid, they are very much alike in what they did.

Terrible parent.
 
If I were the dad, I'd have punished the girl by living a swinger lifestyle.
 
I remember my punishment when I called my mom a bitch as a kid. I had to walk out to the weeping willow, cut a nice switch, and bring it back to get my ass smacked with it. I'd cry the whole way out to the tree, cut the smallest limb, come back crying the whole time. I'd get told it wasn't big enough, I had to go get a better one. After about 2-3 trips of it, I had cried myself completely stupid. I never once actually got hit by it.

Just the fact that I was responsible for the amount of pain I was going to receive *choosing the branch*, I never made the mistake of calling my mom a bitch again.

I still find it hilarious that the one person that never bitched about this video throughout the whole ordeal is the daughter. But yup, her relationship with her father is just too damaged to ever be repaired.

Was this before or after you sucked a cock? :chuckles:
 

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