He clearly doesn’t have the skills to be an effective parent, so he resorts to throwing a tantrum like a child. It is laughable. His daughter wrote a very thoughtful and well-constructed personal letter that he had no business making public. This shows total disrespect. If he wants respect, he has to show and teach respect. Responding like a 3 year old with a gun is just being stupid. I think the parents in this family are probably slobs and the daughter is pointing out that they aren’t doing their part to properly function as a family.
Do you have kids, and if so, what age are they?
Dude, are you serious? I don't think he threw a tantrum at all. She's the one that did on two separate occasions, and now she has to pay the piper for her actions. Well crafted letter my ass. This little snit is pissed off because Daddy is making her work, and she has 3 hots and a cot because of it. And NO, she doesn't DESERVE to get paid for anything. I think he's teaching her a valuable lesson, and hopefully when she's old enough, she'll respect him for it. The only thing that I disagree with, is that the father wasted ammunition (hollow points are expensive), because he should have used a chainsaw, or a sledge hammer. At least then, some of the namby pamby antigunners wouldn't have gotten their panties in a bunch. Overall, I think it was a very effective message, and sadly not enough parents do it. Just the other day, I went to visit my sister, and her sixteen year old daughter came down stairs, and did not even bother to say hello, hug her uncle, just proceeded to sit on the couch and sulk about something. Quite the opposite from her brother, yet I still am a bit angry at my sister for not correcting her on the spot. That type of behavior is not tolerated in my house.
I guess you heard a different letter than I did. There was nothing thoughtful or well constructed about it, it was a rant about having to do chores, with many swear words involved. The dad answered the parts that were exaggerated and did a good job doing it. Also, the letter was already public being posted on her face book page(or wall if you will)the only difference was she thought she had her parents blocked off. The guy did the right thing, he took her laptop away from her, albeit in a manner many wouldn't have taken.
With the computer restored there is zero chance the mom or step-mother(one was mentioned)will relent and return it to her before the grounded period is over.
BTW, you are a sh** parent(if you are a parent, you sound more like a child or very young adult to me) if you think it is ok for children to post tantrums against their parents on public forums.
I agree vehemently with you.
I have 3 daughters ages 10, 16 and 19.
They would never make a post like that on FB partly because they know I would never act like this jerk, not because they know I would act like this jerk.
This father hasn't solved anything. He has merely badly damaged whatever communications existed between him and his daughter.
If he was the right kind of parent, he wouldn't have had this problem.
She disrespected her family on line once before and he told her not to do it again. She did it again, she was warned. I’ve seen people throw out their kids stuff as punishment, this is no different.