Agreed, this father is suffering from the same idiotic behavior as his daughter. He’s just displaying it in a different way. Punishment should be kept in house. Destroying the laptop does the exact opposite of showing her the value of a dollar. That’s the kind of thing people who don’t know the value of a dollar would do.
I could not disagree with you more vehemently if I tried
What I saw was a grown man having a temper tantrum. With a gun.
I didn't see the FB page yet, but as to the material value of a computer, I think it's secondary. "If your right hand is an occasion of sin to you, cut it off."
She could also go to CPS and tell them her father shot her laptop and she’s afraid to be around him. Guess what will happen?
The drama king of Youtube responds to the drama queen of facebook. The drama queen is fifteen and the drama king is in his forties. He showed her.
When my oldest son was one, I figured out the flood of money from grandparents, aunts and uncles belonged in the savings account. We did not give that money to the children so they could buy every piece of junk their friends’ hearts desired.
When they were teens and they worked to pay for their sports equipment, car insurance, dates and gas, that money saved up from relatives - and the interest - came in handy for college expenses. It aided both sons to graduate with no debt and they are not obsessive shoppers and wanters of stupid things they don’t need - raging materialists.
In many ways, this showboat made for reality tv “dad” is an idiot.
Punishment should be kept in house.You mean the way the kid's original obscenity-wrapped diatribe was?