If you don't like his style of parenting use another method. It's none of your business how he raises his kids.
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 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.
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.
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?!
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.
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.
She embarrassed him and his wife on Facebook. To her friends. To, possibly, her friends' parents.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.
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.