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Son Comes Home With Bad Grades. Then His Father Decides to Give Him Some Tough Love Motivation
PJ Media ^ | 05-16-2015 | Michael van der Galien

Posted on 05/16/2015 3:45:46 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien

[VIDEO AT THE LINK Provided below]

What do you do when your child comes home with bad grades? Do you cuddle him (or her)? Or do you get angry and tell them they should do better? Or do you go further than that? Do you punish him by, say, not giving him pocket money or by grounding him for a few days?

One father decided to take it a bit further than that. When his son told him he failed his class, he gave his son a sledgehammer, threw his most prized possession (Xbox) in the garden and forced him to — completely and utterly — destroy it.

Like IJReview, I’m wondering what you think? Did this father go too far, or was it a great — although perhaps saddening — way to motivate his son to improve his grades?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; dad; education; parenting; xbox
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To: Howie66

My guess would be plenty of Dads would. I had video games growing up, and it got me into tech/computers. Are you saying you think your child is successful because he didn’t have video games?


21 posted on 05/16/2015 4:20:35 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Michael van der Galien

John Taylor Gatto says most parents would never believe how arbitrary, meaningless, and even casual the grades are that teachers come up with. How many children have been beaten, starved, shamed, and otherwise tortured because of bad grades. How many children have been abused because they came home with a B+ rather than straight A’s???

School is one vast hoax. Government school is the worst version of the hoax.


22 posted on 05/16/2015 4:44:29 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Michael van der Galien

Disgusting. Violence is disturbing to the kid. He might very well rebel by giving up. I want to see follow up. What are his next semester grades ?

The answer is be tethered for the kid while he’s otherwise making bad grades

No x box. No face book no stupid tv a couple of shows a week

Ask what’s happening in school. Every day. What happened today? Do something on Saturday with him. Pray on Sundays. Bring him around studious kids

Often the difference between a homework doer and a lazy depressed kid is being around kids who think about their future vs angry hopeless kids whose parents don’t have mice friends and who would take a sledgehammer out and use it in a temper tantrum


23 posted on 05/16/2015 5:13:44 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Homer1
He couldn’t just put it in the attic until his grades improved?

Exactly.

24 posted on 05/16/2015 5:15:41 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Howie66

No Facebook til at least day after all finals were done senior year, here.


25 posted on 05/16/2015 5:16:42 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Michael van der Galien

Reminds me of this story: http://mrconservative.com/2014/08/48332-dad-runs-over-adult-sons-video-games-with-lawn-mower-pathetic-meltdown-ensues/


26 posted on 05/16/2015 5:37:19 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: ViLaLuz

More bad acting. Honestly folks.


27 posted on 05/16/2015 6:01:21 AM PDT by Ken H (What happens on the internet stays on the internet.)
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To: Ken H

Lol. .. the crew seems to have a whole series of “psycho dad” videos.


28 posted on 05/16/2015 6:18:39 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: logi_cal869
Second-guessing a father punishing his son, particularly in this coddling PC/liberal/BS climate, is something I simply will not do.

I agree.

It's none of my stinkin' business.

29 posted on 05/16/2015 6:22:19 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Homer1

No, the message sent was just how far the father was willing to go to put his son on the right path. The message was also that elimination of an x-box, or many other of our silly, modern amusements, are a small price to pay to see to it that the son had the proper discipline and priorities in his life.

That son will never forget that object lesson. Good chance he would have forgotten it had the x-box been temporarily confiscated. This guy is a very good father.


30 posted on 05/16/2015 6:22:33 AM PDT by RatRipper (Obama has made me the slave of sluggards.)
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To: Homer1

Exactly.
Now he’s taken away a possible reward for the future.

This YouTube, FB,Twitter culture is breeding a bunch of people who want to keep outdoing each other to get the highest number of “hits” on their video.

I refuse to click on it.


31 posted on 05/16/2015 6:26:12 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Scotswife

Perhaps the father, seen destroying the X-box and posting it on social media, intended that the son be humiliated into improving his grades. I think just taking the X-box away would have sufficed without the extra fan-fare of posting it so others could see.


32 posted on 05/16/2015 6:40:16 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: CaptainMorgantown; EEGator

Perhaps this father remembers the American kid caught vandalizing cars in Singapore and wishes to provide a counterpoint to that kid’s father.

Actions have consequences. “Time-out” is not always the best way to completely get the attention of a child. The same holds true for adults.


33 posted on 05/16/2015 7:16:44 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: yldstrk

I tend to agree. It’s what my son does to his 13 yr old son. Bad behavior equals no internet,no phone, no vid games for 2 weeks to a month depending on the offense. Bad grades last until they come up and stay up. Then you gradually let him have a hour here and there for doing extra around the house with OUT being asked to do it. Plus you are grounded to the house with no friends over.


34 posted on 05/16/2015 7:25:00 AM PDT by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope this isn’t the same way in your area but except for Goodwill and a few others in my area used items aren’t wanted by these giving organizations. Sad.


35 posted on 05/16/2015 7:30:09 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Michael van der Galien

The father knows his kid better than I do - I can’t second guess the punishment. However, I can second-guess his action in putting it out there for everyone to see. That stuff stays out there forever. Good luck to father and son if they ever need to look for a job in the future.

Just an afterthought - why didn’t papa take a hand in it when midterm grades came out?


36 posted on 05/16/2015 7:33:35 AM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: Arthur McGowan
I totally agree with you about how random grades can be. Plus the schools are filled with incompetent teachers...especially in math. I honestly think we are destroying our kids by the push for grades. This poor kid already thinks he is stupid and hates school. I think John Taylor Gatto should be required reading for every parent who thinks "school" is good for their kids.

Dumbing Us Down The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling http://www.amazon.com/Dumbing-Down-Curriculum-Compulsory-Schooling-ebook/dp/B0097CYWW4

37 posted on 05/16/2015 7:47:46 AM PDT by happyhomemaker (Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Rom 12:12)
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To: Michael van der Galien

I’d have donated the X-Box.


38 posted on 05/16/2015 8:46:54 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Michael van der Galien
Considering progress reports are sent home half way through each quarter and schools now use online grading systems to which parents have 24/7 access to check grades, maybe the father's toys need busted up. That stated, this seems staged so that daddy can have a social media feel good moment.
39 posted on 05/16/2015 9:18:39 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Even St Vincent De Paul, Goodwill, Salvation Army or similar would’ve been better than destroying a perfectly goo device.


40 posted on 05/16/2015 10:53:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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