Posted on 04/23/2020 4:07:14 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
By now, the hours stuck at home to slow the spread of coronavirus are affecting most people, but teens seem to be really struggling. It's already a challenging time in the life of a teenager and being forced to spend so much of it with their family and not at school with friends makes them even more emotionally volatile.
That was pretty evident in a recent video that showed one teen and his friend in England head to Asda, their local grocery store, and scream threats and abuse at the workers there. They also offended onlookers. When a woman chided the boys and asked their age, one yelled at her, "F***, how old are you? You look about 80."
Since supermarket workers are already dealing with a lot, working in the time of a pandemic and potentially exposing themselves to COVID-19, people were outraged with the video. Among those made furious by the footage was the father of one of the boys in it.
He marched his son back to the store and demanded his boy give them an apology. The dad filmed the whole thing and posted it to Facebook.
***WARNING: This video includes some harsh language.***
In the caption accompanying the video, the man called it a "public apology to all the members of staff and public at Asda yesterday" and wrote:
(Excerpt) Read more at q102.iheart.com ...
Good man. Someone finally doing what is right.
If only the parents of America had listened to their parents and grandparents, they might even have values that they could pass down to their children during this time. But nah, I’m not pushing my luck for that.
Good for the Dad. I don’t think you can punish your kids in the UK - it’s a crime, so the parents have to make do like this in trying to keep their kids in line.
Yes so good to see fathering done right.
Years ago I worked in retail management. At the time it was not unusual for a dad or a minister to match a teen into my office to return shoplifters merchandise and apologize. Imagine that’s rare now.
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What a load. When I was a teen, I was so busy I didn't have time to be "emotionally volitile."
He loves his son.. His son will thank him someday.
I’m glad the father did that. Although, I could barely understand everybody else, what with their English accents and all. I could guess what was being said though.
Makes you wonder how long this kid has been acting out in public like this?
All four of mine walked out of a store with a candy bar or something when they were 4 to 6.
All four were driven back to the store to give the candy bar to the manager and apologize and pay for it, without getting it.
worked, at least as far as I know.
Good parenting. Did the same with my kid who was 8 and stole from the teacher’s “treasure box”. Marched him up to the school and made him apologize. Left an impression.
Don’t lump me in with tha6.
My kids know how I feel and even if they don’t admit it, I’m sure I left the correct impression.
A friend of my daughters said I was the ‘meanie butt daddy’. I had a tshirt made up with meanie butt daddy on the front and No you can’t’ on the back.
Ask her.
That’s a real dad.
I agree with you about that part of the article.
I’d bet the dad would agree with you, too.
We’re you thinking in the middle of a pandemic? I thought not.
No, I was thinking in the middle of the Vietnam war, the sudden loss of my father, and being the oldest of three having an unbelievable load of responsibility thrust upon me. But no, I didn't have to deal with a pandemic. I had more important things to deal with.
Many lose fathers then. I was 20 in 1990 when my father died. Of course my mother didn’t get a huge pension check and large life insurance policies paid out to her nor the kids get a social security check every month until 21 like you and your siblings. Still sucks to lose your father but at least you were set for life financially.
Do what? My dad died in 1973, and I was 18. My mom got a military pension and had to go to work (as did I) to feed us. You must have been really privileged. A pandemic would have been the least of our worries.
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