Lovelyish

Since Princess wasn’t half as clever as she imagined, (her father does IT, and she let him work on her puter, thinking he would never see? PLEASE.) and her parents PAID for the puter, Yes…I think he was right.

And before everyone jumps on my shit for being an old fart, what is the FIRST rule of the NET? Don’t post anything you don’t want someone to see. The Net is FOREVER. How many cautionary tales have to told before people catch on?

Possibly, he saved her from worse trouble later. Remember…she was barely off a 3 month grounding, before she pulled this stunt. Low IQ, there. And I used to have to a LOT more around the house, never got allowance, had to go to school, and pay for my own CLOTHES once I got a part time job…so cry me a river, Hannah!

She’s a brat.

10 points to her father.

Lol, I wish more parents did stuff like this when their kids are douchebags.

While I don’t agree with what his daughter did at all, I definitely feel like he didn’t handle the situation well and I’m against what he did.

hana you have my blessing to place him in the most shit nursing home once you really can’t wipe the shit dangling from his own ass.  omg this is an example when the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree and you discipline with hate.    

Haha, omg.

Wow, dad wins by a landslide. I think he’s completely in the right and it reminds me of times that I had bitched about my parents on the Internet and expected them not to see it. I think teenagers are all in some way stupid when it come to getting away with stuff.

Sure hope she backed her shit up.

I thought it was funny. He warned her too…her own fault.

I wonder how she will like her new Amish Existence?

While I think he went overboard, his daughter sounds like a self-entitled, spoiled child. Go dad.

I wouldn’t put a bullet through a laptop but if my daughter disrespected us that bad, sure as hell she wouldn’t be getting her laptop back until she could buy it herself.  

I bought my own crap all through HS. Heck, I couldn’t even get a licence to drive until I had a job to pay for the insurance… My mom laid it out really simple.. it was just her and I, and until I brought home just as much money as she did, I was expected to help out at home more than she was. (Within reason, she wasn’t crazy and I admit it wasn’t too bad to keep up with.. but I worked my BUTT off between work and school to help her keep things up. It was just the two of us.)

Honestly my dad’s done similar.  He broke my brother’s guitar in half because my brother was giving him major attitude and ignoring him while playing it.  Believe me, my brother deserved it.  We need more parents like this man!

And it’s not hate.  If people who are all up in arms read the father’s actual facebook updates, they’ll understand more.  Just tough love that’s all.

Handled it like a pro. Though, I would have used less expensive ammo. Would’ve gotten the same point across and he could’ve saved that ammo for something…..better.

Somehow, I’m not surprised his daughter is the way she is, given his behavior.

The only thing I disagreed with was shooting the laptop. I would have sold it on ebay to recoup the money! XD!!!

I do agree it was a bit much to make the video but then again the daughter thought her rant was cute & wouldnt be discovered. I’m so fucking happy to see a parent be a parent & not let things slide. Obviously she didnt learn her lesson before but it’s crystal clear now.
Also, on the dad’s FB page, he released a followup statement to people thinking the video was too much. The gist of it was he let his daughter see it & offered to let her post a response (she declined) & said her life wouldnt be totally miserable but she understands why he did what he did.

I agree with all of his points.  What she did was disrespectful, her parents provided her with more than she could ever imagine.  While as I think the bullets were a tad extreme, I think she will learn her lesson, and I hope others learn from this example. 

what a waste of a laptop.  he could’ve given that to someone who needed it.  i personally think he way overreacted but i would understand him taking away all her privileges and making her earn them.  wasting a laptop like that just to make a point…yeah i can’t get behind that.

the dad is awesome ! lol 

Everything was cool up to shooting the laptop.  He coulda sold it, hid it, done something with it.  Not only did he waste money on the bullets, the $130 software he put in it, but also however much the pc cost and he coulda made some money off it.

Just remember, he just wasted HIS money. Not hers.

i thought this was well justified, children do need to be more respectful to their parents & appreciate everything they get. but as another commenter said “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” i wonder where she learned to be so disrespectful. maybe having everything handed to her, she feels no reason to not be such a brat.

I am PervyPenguin and I approve of this father’s actions.

Personally I would’ve sold the laptop but I think he made is point very, very well.

@firetyger@xanga - Sell the laptop, use the proceeds to send her on a weeklong vacation to the Darfur region. THEN she can come back complain and bitch about how sucky her privileged life is.

I don’t think I’ve laughed so hard in ages. That was absolutely brilliant. Kudos to her father!

@QuantumStorm@xanga - Win. I often think that about Christians who argue over the internet over frivolous purchases… like… OMG YOU BUY YOUR DOG STUFF AND THERE ARE KIDS STARVING IN AFRICA? THAT’S NOT CHRISTIAN.

While they type on their $500+ laptop. 

Good job Dad. More parents need to step up and parent their kids.
a 16 yr old does not need a lap top, a cell phone and a freaking iPod.
That gal had it coming and I hope she learned her lesson..
and if it were me, I would make all her complaints in that post come true (for a couple days).

shooting through the lap top was immature and retarded. I don’t defend her attitude and the tasks she had to do were reasonable but a father needs to have more self control than this. Something tells me she has become a douchebag for a reason, he is probably a creepier character than he pretends to be. Go Hannah (was it Hannah?)

His money paid for that laptop.
What kid/teen DOESN’T do chores? Spoiled brats.
Vulgar language towards your parents end in repercussions.
Complaining about what you don’t have? Wow, ungrateful.
My mother would have had one good slap across my face, but a bullet through the laptop sounds reasonable.

That’s waaaaaaay overkill. That guy needs to get over himself. Who the hell cares, we all have said and done shit we knew our parents wouldn’t like, and I agree to a certain level, but he took it too far. 

I wouldn’t have shot the laptop (and as soon as I realized what he was going to do I was chanting NO NO NO at the screen) but I understand what point he’s trying to make and I feel like overall it was handled well. Kudos. (To the people who are saying he’s a bad father, I think you should read his facebook page.)

I would have just posted on her facebook that the King’s Ranch (a shelter for families) would be coming to pick up her stuff this afternoon and it will be given to people that appreciate it. PERIOD.  No questions.  No I’ll do my chores now.  She would earn her things back the hard way. Since they’d all be gone, she wouldn’t be able to sneak to use them, find them, or anything else.   HOWEVER, if she just posted one facebook, I would not make that big of a deal out of it. Teenagers say stupid crap all the time.  I’d probably just take her laptop away for a reasonable period of time.  My child would have to  really act like a spoiled, ungrateful brat for me to donate all of their possessions.

They showed this on the news last night and I refused to watch it.  I didn’t watch the video here either.  Parents don’t get back at their children for their bad behavior. Parents teach children how to respond appropriately and maturely. This dad really did a great job at that one.

He is awesome. I think shooting the laptop, even if it was a waste of money, sent a hell of a lot stronger message than selling it. 

Seems this wasn’t a first try at resolving this issue, so this seems appropriate to me. If he felt like shooting the laptop, why not? He paid for it, the software and the ammo. It’s his money to waste. And it beats shooting a person!

It’s a bit funny there are so many “such a waste!” comments, to me, considering we live in a world where people regularly choose an 800+ dollar phone given all their options.

He absolutely did not do the right thing. I’m not entirely sure what the right thing would’ve been, but acting like a child himself was not it. Generally, if you raise your kids right from the time that they’re born, you don’t end up with problems like this in the first place. You cannot wait until your child is a teenager to teach them how to be respectful, and then wonder why those talks don’t work. I’m glad he did something and tried to be a parent, but that was just too extreme. My guess is that the daughter is just like her extreme, overreacting dad.

When I first watched the video, I admit it sounded like the girl had a lot to do on top of her school work. However, the dad then clarified that her only chores were to sweep the kitchen floor, make her bed, wipe down the counter top, do her own laundry, and load/unload the dishwasher. (And make the guest bed once a month). Seriously, that’s not so bad. And like someone else said, she has food, shelter, clothes, an education, and a laptop that her father paid for and worked on for 6 hours. So in the big scheme of things, her chores really weren’t as horrible as she made them out to be. Hannah sounds like a drama queen who exaggerates.

Although I do agree that her dad may have gone a bit far in shooting her laptop. Why not sell it on ebay and give it to someone who actually needs it, as well as get some extra money for it? A win-win for everyone.

This is how parents SHOULD act when their child is disrespectful and bratty. My mom was. When I was 15, I threw my phone against the wall because I was pissed. I wasn’t allowed to get a new one (I had to use my old one that barely worked) until I could pay for it.  Most parents spoil their child despite being disrespectful and hurtful. This dad takes no shit from their child. 

I don’t see anything wrong with this. I applaud him. He seemed pretty calm throughout everything, despite being upset that his daughter would be so disrespectful and rude to all of the adults in her life. They’d had a go-around about this before and he’d tried it a different way. Now he’s just putting his foot down in a more permanent and symbolic way that matches exactly what she did to them. He didn’t yell and scream, he didn’t even say or do anything particularly humiliating. Everything that could’ve been humiliating to her in that video was done to her by herself. He didn’t hurt her. He just hurt that laptop. And since he was the one who paid for that laptop and he was the one who upgraded the laptop and paid for the software and hardware to do that upgrading…it was his own laptop. So he essentially just shot his own laptop. Big deal.

He also didn’t say she could never have another laptop. He said once this new round of grounding is over she can have another laptop…one that SHE pays for herself once she gets a job. If more people would take the time to parent their children these days, instead of just letting them get away with it every time they act disrespectful just because they’re attempting to pick their battles or just throwing up their hands because they’re sick of it and give up, then maybe there would be less ungrateful brats growing up to be douchebags who think everyone and everything in the world is just here for their amusement. I’ve met plenty of people like that and they all come from families where their parents let them get away with shit because they were either trying to pick their battles or because they were just sick of it and din’t want to mess with it anymore. Sure, there were also kids who came from those same types of families with parents like I just described and they turned out wonderfully and aren’t at all like that. But, out of the ones that did turn out rotten I don’t know any of them who had parents who stayed all up in their shit until they got their acts together.
I think this man handled it just fine and if I were ever in the same vicinity as he and his wife, I’d like to shake their hands since it was clear from the end of that video that his wife had his back on this so they worked as a unit as far as the discipline went.

“That lady works harder than you ever had in your entire life.”

That sentence convinced me his daughter is a spoiled brat. I do wish the dad taught his daughter in a less violent way. Though he did get the message across.

at first i thought he shouldn’t have posted it on her facebook. i’m against parents embarrassing their children as a form of discipline. however, she’s the one who put it on the internet to begin with; it’s only fair that he should respond to her post on the internet.

now, the only think i object to is that he complains about her cussing when he does it himself. parents should be examples; if he doesn’t want his daughter to cuss, he shouldn’t either.

         WAY TO GO DAD! As far as people saying he shouldn’t have shot the laptop- he bought it. He paid for it. If I spend 20k on a car just because I want to see what happens when I roll it off a cliff, that’s my choice, because I paid for it. (Which I would never do, but still.)

HA! It cost him somewhere around $300-$800 to teach his daughter that lesson. I hope she learned.

@danaenicole@xanga - The only cursing in the video was when he was quoting her.

I am totally on the father’s side.  So many teenagers these days are so awful and ungrateful, she definitely got what she deserved.  Her life is sooooo hard because she has to do BASIC chores around the house?  What a goddamn brat.  And after her dad spent over $100 on her laptop and spent six hours working on it…this is a lesson that will stick with her for the rest of her life.

As he shot his laptop, I was thinking … noo, you can sell it! But she was so disrespectful in her letter that I can’t help but be on the dad’s side, even if his tactic was a little extreme. 

While I like the point he made, and agree fully, I don’t necessarily think he went about it the correct way. When made public, these kinds of issues typically cause children to respond more negatively and be more upset than have a good outcome of “learn your lesson.” You know? So, I agree with the heart, just not the delivery. And I think ruining the laptop was stupid on his part. I understand the principal proving of it. However, I just think it could have been handled better. Sell it or some such. It’ll take her a pretty minute to be able to pay you back, so while it inconveniences her, it also inconveniences you. You know? Anywho. So, good message. Not good delivery, in my opinion.

she may be spoiled, but he’s wasteful and a tad psychotic.  this is why i support gun restrictions.  

I agree that he was justified in punishing her for being so disrespectful.  However, if that were my child behaving that way, I would have either sold the computer, or forced her to donate it to someone who would appreciate the laptop more than her rather than shooting it.  But, it is very likely that he spent the money on buying the computer so he can do as he pleases with his electronics.

While I agree with taking away her computer and setting her straight, I would have liked to see him give the laptop to a needy family or sell it and use the money for something productive (like paying off some of the “cleaning lady’s” debt). I just don’t like to see someone waste resources that could have helped someone else. Kudos to him though all the same.

It makes me sad to see a family come to this level. To be so at odds with those closest to them that they speak to one another so rudely on or off the internet is tragic. Children learn how to treat others by the way we treat them. Respect is a mutual thing, it doesn’t work in only one direction. Spoiled selfish teens don’t just suddenly appear out of nowhere they are created by a lifestyle that encourages that attitude. Going to battle, parents against child won’t heal a family.

awesome. that little spoiled brat deserved to have her laptop shot. I love that he posted it on her Facebook wall, too. LOL. karma.

I agree with what he said and I agree that what his child did wasn’t right, but I don’t think publicly humiliating his 15 year-old daughter was the best thing he could have done.

@oledphatnuglee@xanga - i completely agree with this.

it is ridiculous how people are saying things like “that spoiled brat got what she deserved.” do you really this girls father making a youtube video about shooting her laptop is going to help anything about this situation? because i dont.

@simply_surveys321@xanga - I think it’s pretty normal for people to react only to the situation presented without considering how this situation may have come to be or what will likely be the future outcome of a family taken down the path of a divisive war like this. I don’t think his reaction will help their family grow closer and I don’t think she’s completely to blame for who she is either. I see a family on the brink of destruction and it breaks my heart. Others just see a selfish teen getting what she has coming to her. It’s all in the perspective.

Well we can assume she won’t be doing that again, which is the point, right? I’m not seeing the problem with how the father handled this. Obviously babying her doesn’t teach her anything. She is a little brat and she doesn’t deserve any privileges. My view is, if she thinks she is adult enough to suggest her parents gets off their lazy ass, she should be adult enough for a little street justice. Parent today are WAY too easy on their kids, which is why we even have kids thinking they are entitled to everything that adults are. It’s time to go back to raising kids the way our parents and grandparents were raised because the way kids have been raised for the past 40 years is horrible!  Street justice like this needs to come back when teaching kids lessons. This is how the real world will treat you, not “Oh honey, come here, sit down…let’s have a little heart to heart over milk and cookies.” Uh no, cuz that little shithead will just go right back to doing it again.

I agree with him, but I wouldn’t have shot the laptop. It’s really not worth the money, IMO, to make the statement. I would have sold it or donated it to someone who really needed it. 

@temporarilyinnocent@xanga - no, he says one on his own around 6:48 and i’m pretty sure there was at least one more.

for the people that don’t agree.. think about it.. the shit he did is better than most parents who abuse or neglect their children physically, emotionally and mentally.. dealing with teenagers are not easy.. you can’t say shit unless you’ve been a parent.. parenting is a job that most can’t handle.. and i think he did what he thought that is effective and i think that is a good way to get a teenager’s attention because teenagers aren’t children nor adults yet.. so parenting a teenager is harder than parenting a baby, a toddler and a school age child.. teenagers are egocentric people..

LOL!!!! I mean, it was a waste of money shooting it… but LOLLLLL!!! I love the dad too. Hot accent + cute that he can’t say responsibilities without a stammer. Adorable

Oh yeah, and brat kid.

Just thought I’d share this video, in relation to this post… XD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBfTIc_Lv8c

@galadrial@xanga - haha, i was raised Amish, so all I could of was what she’d do if she actually had to live amish for even a day… God the kid has it stinking easy. 

I think the fact that he shot the laptop means he values his daughter over money… 

I do agree with @oledphatnuglee@xanga - on this. Too many times I’ve seen kids including my own brother become like that girl and it starts at the home and with the parents. Spoiled kids are made by their environment.

I still don’t understand why posting up a response like his was really necessary and especially public. I get that she embarrassed her family but-no parent should do the same to their child especially to teach a lesson. It’s pretty cruel and it seems like the parents is actually childish. Also, that laptop could of been sold for some easy cash and possibly someone else would of bought it that wouldn’t of otherwise couldn’t. A decent laptop is pretty expensive. I just think he overreacted. I know I was the same as this girl when I was younger, but teenagers are mostly like this.
We’ve all done this shit one time or another but his response felt like overkill. Complete overkill. I don’t understand why putting bullets into a laptop proved anything, if only to embarrass her which I still think is wrong. Two wrongs don’t make a right and it’s a shame he doesn’t understand that.

@oranges_are_vitamins@xanga - at least he shot the computer and not her…

I’m back. This guy is just so sexy to me <3 lolol

Why hasn’t the factor of environment been brought up? Of course it seems harsh or unnecessary to shoot the laptop but I’m pretty sure firing a gun is pretty second nature to him considering his surroundings. Would not be surprised if he hunts, at all. To me it’s not shocking. If he was from one of the five boroughs in NYC, and shot the laptop, then yeah, it’d seem intense. It was also technically his property because although she used it, HE paid for it and was paying for it’s upkeep. He did say that she had done something similar and was punished with THREE MONTHS of being grounded. Sounds like he was just fed up. Many teens think they are just entitled to living in luxury without having to do anything for themselves. I’m pretty sure the main things a parent must do for their child are to feed them and provide them shelter. She doesn’t want to clean after herself, so who does she expect to do that? Her parents? How is washing her OWN clothes and keeping her room tidy (along with the dishes) make her a slave? Some may say it was unnecessary to embarrass her by posting it to her Facebook but, what about how her parents feel? Made them out to seem like they take advantage of their daughter and she is mistreated. 

On another note, he did issue a statement saying although he doesn’t regret it, he would’ve handled the situation a little differently. Also that his daughter and family are fine with it.

Parenting level 3242623

I’m 15 going on 16, like this man’s daughter. While his daughter might sound bratty (which I’m sure she could be), I think this dad’s parenting tactics are quite frankly, ridiculous. I’m sure a few of you are going to disregard my words because of my age, but honestly, I sympathize with her. When you’re in high school (especially in AP and honors classes) it’s hard to live up to expectations. With all the pressure to get into a good college, do community service, and get good grades, life can be stressful. Especially since most teenagers haven’t been introduced to the stress of the “real world”.

While this girl comes off as bratty, I would hope that you would think back to high school and the pressures you were under.

this dad did the virtual equivalent of reading her diary and then being upset at what he found… everyone needs an outlet to vent, be stupid and melodramatic. especially as a teenager. if she wasn’t saying this shit directly to his face, i don’t think it is improper for her to get out what she was feeling.

after all, if she is like most human beings, she’ll reread it when she is calmer. she’ll have a chance to reflect, process and she will realize things aren’t as bad as they felt when she was mad; she’d probably think, “okay, so i don’t actually make all the beds…” hell, she might even feel stupid for posting something like that on FB and delete the post.

but with a response like this from her dad, it doesn’t give her the opportunity to do that, build maturity, etc. it also breaks her trust in her father. the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree; i have a feeling that she is a brat to him because she has received more stick than carrot – more shouting and less firm but calm guidance, that kind of thing.

Was his daughter childish and ridiculous? Sure, but kids whine to their friends. She’s young, which makes it not acceptable but understandable. Her father’s response to her absurd melodrama? Even more absurd melodrama. He’s supposed to be the mature one, and shooting up a laptop then sharing the video is far worse than venting in a Facebook note. The kid’s a spoiled brat but he has to take some responsibility for raising her that way and to set a better example. A better example this ain’t. Of course many of you clap and cheer at his ridiculous display, not unlike the daughter’s friends, which is pretty interesting.

@glittering_moments@xanga - when i was in high school if i called a woman who helped us out around the house a “celaning lady” and whined about my chores, i would have gotten in much worse trouble. i’m glad he stood up for the lady, and publicly rebuked his daughter the way she puliblicly humiliated everyone who is a help to her. i remember being a teenager VERY well, and there was no pressure to be a spoiled brat, disrespecting people around me. there was pressure to be pretty and friendly to the right people and have the right possessions…but in no way would an attitude like hers have been helpful to me.

I would hate being the girl right now. She’s fifteen. Puberty is HELL for anyone. Dad was right in his own way but I sort of sympathize with the girl too. It might be a bit overboard. What can you do? Back in the day you had journals and note writing – this whole technology jazz makes life so difficult. It definitely wouldn’t have gotten that bad if facebook didn’t expand social networking to this extent. I think the girl doesn’t know any better and the Dad has all the right reason to be upset. The fact that the letter got publicized is what made the whole matter EXPLODE.

What a waste of a perfectly good computer. I think the dad should have just made her pay for the upgrades and the computer, and given it back when she did. 

@Shinbi_Belldandy@xanga - don’t do that… he’s in IT so he knows that things never really go away on your computer

I think the fact that he aired this online makes him just as much at fault as his daughter . Family matters should not be aired online. He isn’t on a reality show and shouldn’t make his family one. Yes, tough love is good, and yes it was his computer to do with what he wants, but by posting this online for all to see he made himself a huge asshole and just as problematic as his daughter. I can see where she gets her problems from on all accounts. 

Let’s see – child acts a little bratty and complains about her chores on Facebook. Annoying and stupid?Sure. What is the father’s sense of a proportional punishment? Public shaming in front of tens of millions of people, months of grounding, and shooting her laptop several times with a gun. And for some reason, the overwhelming majority seem to applaud this as “good parenting”. Brilliant. 

Really, what does this guy think he’s accomplished here? Does he really think his daughter will respect him now? Does he think his daughter is ever going to communicate with him about anything serious after seeing how he reacts to something as trivial as whining about her chores? I can’t wait to see what this man, this exemplar of reason and emotional stability, does when his daughter gets into *actual* trouble (as most teenagers inevitably will). 

I think I would have relocated the laptop, but I like that he did shoot it only because of the finality that it had.  “I am your father, disrespecting me gets your priviledges taken away and NOT returned”.  I don’t approve of what that little shit did and I think more parents need to exercise this behaviour with their self-entitled, unruly, disrespecting children.

@chaospet@xanga - From what I heard, it was more than just “whining”, she was verbally cutting up her father/parents and being an ungrateful little shit.  If I did what she did, I would have gotten slapped across the face and grounded.  And I would have deserved it.  You should NEVER disrespect your parents, and doing so publicly?  I think she deserved her punishment. 

I do however hear what you’re saying and do share some of the same thoughts.  If his solution to her misbehaving is just to destroy her things, they will definitely have a difficult time talking things out.

hahahaa @oranges_are_vitamins@xanga

I literally LOL’d(or ed?) when I read this.
 
 And yeah, what she did was wrong and childish, and yeah, I don’t know anything about this situation other than what was said..bbbuuttt..if this man would REALLY go as far to shoot 6-8 bullets into a laptop he bought with his own money and ON TOP of that, spent “$130.00″ on fixing it up just the day before, he is obviously very immature and has serious issues himself. He was punishing her for being disrespectful and childish by BEING disrespectful and childish, which teaches the child absolutely nothing. He totally took this wayy too far.

This little brat pisses me off.

wahh, school and chores are hard!! I go to bed at 10 o clock!!
I wish to GOD I got to go to bed at 10. How easy life would be.
She needs to get a job and learn to be a responsible person. God, I used to think I was  ’stereotypical teenager’ growing up, but compared to this girl I was the most perfect daughter my parents could’ve asked for!

@glittering_moments@xanga - When I think back to high school, I cringe at how immature I was and wish I had appreciated how easy I had it when life was good. Sure, AP classes were hard and boys created drama and my school required me to do a 100 hour senior project, but my life was never so easy as it was in high school, and I wish I’d realized that then. When I read my old Livejournal where I was complaining about my parents, I wanted to puke. 

@splinter1591@xanga - True true…I just think it was a waste of good bullets & money to shoot it. LOL.

So very interesting. ^^

Obviously the daughter was being disrespectful but this is absolutely ridiculous. Someone who shots a computer (multiple times) because some rude things were posted online is obviously kind of messed up so no wonder the girl turned out like that. I’m not saying what she did was right, it was incredibly bratty but I’m not surprised considering THIS guy is her father. 

I wouldn’t have shot the laptop (although it made me laugh), but I am siding with him 110%.

Haha. Spoiled brat deserved that! I’m glad he actually stood up to his child. A lot of parents these days would rather be friends and do what the kid think is best rather than being the parent and doing what they know is best.

50pts to the IT dad!

My kid’s gonna have an IT mom and Programmer Dad. There’s no place to hide >:)

Everything the kid gets besides love, food, clothing, shelter, education is a privilege. Seriously. a PRIVILEGE. Now that’s gone b/c she bit the hands that feeds her. Frick, I didn’t even have a laptop or phone or ipod until I could buy it myself. I learned everything about computers by teaching myself. Her dad takes care of all of her upgrades and replacements for her. Being the family IT person is really annoying, so if he spend hundreds of dollars on an unappreciative brat like her for what’s basically her TOY..? Kudos to that man. He must really love her.

Maybe this’ll teach her some perspective. It’s not like her chores even hard or backbreaking.
I understand it’s frustrating when people dirty up what you’ve just cleaned, but you don’t act out in that way.
My mom used to frustrate me when she would take out my laundry before it was ready or when she tracked dirt in the house from her gardening, but all I had to do was tell her and she stopped. Parents listen more than you think.

I have a few ideas…..

He has a right to be frustrated. Someone who is 15 should be responsible and everything. She should not be ungrateful for the things her parents are doing for her. She should stop and count her blessings. SO yes, I’m in agreement with him. But, I am not in agreement of how he handled it. He could have handled it in a WHOLE different way. Honestly, the way he handled it will just bring on MORE problems with him and his daughter. 

He is handling it totally wrong. Again, he’s frustrated and that’s TOTALLY understandable. But, making a video for ALL of her friends, for ALL of the world to see, is wrong. Correction should be done in love, and in private. Yes, some correction needs to be done in public. But, this is not the case for this. Here is a girl who is struggling with her relationship with her father. Do you honestly think after her Dad making this video will reconcile the relationship she has with her father? Absolutely not. In fact, it’s just going to put a deeper wedge into their relationship. She’s going to be hurt that her father, her ONLY father, would do something so humiliating to her.
And another thing, he needs to stop comparing HIMSELF to his daughter. “I moved out at age 15.” Big deal. He’s not the same person as his daughter. They are two separate human beings. His attitude is coming off as, “I’m better than you.” Really? I know that when my Dad compared himself to me, it made me feel like I was nothing, like I wasn’t worth anything. 

And my last thought is this…..the way he handled the computer wasn’t too great. He could have thrown it away, or even just give it away to someone. But shooting it? Really?

But….I’m not in agreement of how the daughter is acting. She does need to take responsibility, she does need to respect her parents. 

When I went to high school, I was taking college courses, worked four different after-school activities, held a job, and had the added tasks of taking care of my younger sister and cleaning up after my disgusting, drug-addict mother whenever she felt like coming home. I had to do things that no person, child or adult, should ever have to do. I fully applaud this father, because his brat of a daughter has no idea what it’s like to face hardships. She has it so frickin’ easy and you can tell that he works hard to provide for her. If I had parents that cared even half as much as he does, I would have been infinitely more grateful than she.