Mad dad.....

Dadu2004

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Freaking incredible. Kids and teens these days think they can get away with anything, including being amazingly disrespectful to their parents. It's great to see a parent take a stand and put a stop to a whiny little teenager. Good for him... she needed to be taught a lesson...

On top of this...I would take her and make her serve in a soup kitchen for a year dealing with the homeless. Maybe she'd gain an appreciation for what she has.
 

ElliottCarasDad

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Im blocking all shit like this out of my consciousness until I have I have to deal with it as a parent of a teen! I got enough on my plate!
 

fiona_f

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This guy sucks. Mainly, because he lacks empathy. He's also wasteful, he could have donated that laptop to someone who genuinely could have used it. Imagine the difference in someone's life he could have made rather than throwing a bitchy fit.

He also is saying that it is about to get "a whole lot harder" then pulls out a gun and starts shooting it (with hollow point bullets no less). I find that to be setting the stage for a bizarre power dynamic, that at best is just douchebaggery and at worst is threatening and mentally abusive. I'm just going to try to believe he just wanted to stroke himself in front of all his friends, rather than trying to confront a possible upsetting reality.

I'm not sure why you would want to publicly humiliate your daughter. I'm not sure why he would destroy a piece of equipment that could help people. The only explanation that I can come up with is that he is mentally unsound, demonstrated by firing at that close of range at the ground when a stone could send the bullet back at him in a ricochet.

I'm not discounting that his daughter doesn't suck as well, but he's the one that proved himself on film (which means that he's at least currently stupider than she is).

When a teen is unhappy it is perfectly acceptable for them to post about their parents. Why? Because they are teenagers. That's what they do. Teens have been finding ways to rebel against their "elders" since the dawn of time, you can read about it in the writings of the ancient Greeks. They are confronting feelings for the first time in their lives and they don't have proper coping mechanisms for them. What they feel is real, even if it is overblown and ridiculous.

The father should be held to a different standard, first because he is an adult and second because he put he clearly expects his daughter to treat him with respect.
 

Mom2all

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I LOVED IT! :award:
He was already posted on my facebook and my children "got" to watch it. Teenagers have a right to feel anyway they want to. Disrespecting her parents and the lady who trades services by cleaning for them earned her any ridicule she has gotten from her Dad's post. Life is about choices. With them come the consequences. A very public rant about her old life being so hard = a very public change in that old way of life. And although I advocate donating what we don't need or use, it was his to do whatever he wanted to with it. That being said, I think it was a used wonderfully in teaching his ungrateful foul mouthed daughter a lesson. :takeabow:
 

fiona_f

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That's what's really troubling me, the amount of positive reactions this guy gets.
Yeah, his daughter probably misbehaved - but to react in a way this guy does? Take the laptop from her, sell it, do whatever, but just TALK TO HER FACE TO FACE if you are an adult. But this guy....
 

TabascoNatalie

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myself i rarely take internet sensations for real. i wouldn't be surprised if this act turned out a fake.

on the other hand -- if this was real, no surprise -- some people go to extremes to get some attention. (then like father -- like daughter, our children are as we deserve them to be). public reaction isn't surprising either -- if to take internet comments seriously, we should bring back public hanging, flogging and etc.
 

fiona_f

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Yeah, these viral videos often are staged, but that one's for real.
Also I can take the usual 25% or so of comments by nutcases, but here it seems like 80% are applauding this guys.
 

MartinBrendal

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NancyM

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fiona_f said:
This guy sucks. Mainly, because he lacks empathy. He's also wasteful, he could have donated that laptop to someone who genuinely could have used it. Imagine the difference in someone's life he could have made rather than throwing a bitchy fit.

He also is saying that it is about to get "a whole lot harder" then pulls out a gun and starts shooting it (with hollow point bullets no less). I find that to be setting the stage for a bizarre power dynamic, that at best is just douchebaggery and at worst is threatening and mentally abusive. I'm just going to try to believe he just wanted to stroke himself in front of all his friends, rather than trying to confront a possible upsetting reality.

I'm not sure why you would want to publicly humiliate your daughter. I'm not sure why he would destroy a piece of equipment that could help people. The only explanation that I can come up with is that he is mentally unsound, demonstrated by firing at that close of range at the ground when a stone could send the bullet back at him in a ricochet.

I'm not discounting that his daughter doesn't suck as well, but he's the one that proved himself on film (which means that he's at least currently stupider than she is).

When a teen is unhappy it is perfectly acceptable for them to post about their parents. Why? Because they are teenagers. That's what they do. Teens have been finding ways to rebel against their "elders" since the dawn of time, you can read about it in the writings of the ancient Greeks. They are confronting feelings for the first time in their lives and they don't have proper coping mechanisms for them. What they feel is real, even if it is overblown and ridiculous.

The father should be held to a different standard, first because he is an adult and second because he put he clearly expects his daughter to treat him with respect.
I'm in agreement with this. I think he's a horses ass. Who took the video, and who posted it on Utube? Wonder if he set that up himself...weird.

Teens always complain about their parents, I'm sure he did too at 15. I notice my teen age nephews and nieces talking to their friends on facebook sometimes cursing and complaining, but I don't respond because they aren't talking to me.

They're teen agers! Who knows why they say what they do. I think he could have had a sit down with her instead. Now She's just going to open up another facebook account under a different name from a diff computer and show this video to prove how horrible her parents really are.
 

mom2many

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I think dad needed to do what he needed to do. Honestly more parents need to step up and parent their children. Do I think he needed to pull out his gun and shoot it...no, I would have had her donated it if anything. But livin' country, I can understand why he did it the way he did it.

He had a few follow up post, the video was really intended for his DD.

How she got caught even though the parents were blocked..
HOW SHE GOT CAUGHT: The Dog Did It.. no, really.

I finally came out and told her this today, partly because it was too funny NOT to share.

When my daughter made her post, she used Facebook's privacy settings to block "Family" and "Church" friend's lists. All her other friends could see it. We, of course could not.

One of our dogs is always getting in photos and therefore has her own Facebook page. It's just a cute dumb thing we did for fun. Well, the dog's profile is rarely used except when funny pictures of her are posted. Since that's not too often, and she has very few friends on Facebook, her wall is kind of bare, with relatively few posts showing up on it.

The other night we gave the dog a bath and there was a funny photo we uploaded to Facebook and tagged her in. I logged in as the dog the next morning to comment on the photo. However when I logged into the dog's profile, my daughter had forgotten to add her to the "family" list.... so our family dog's profile showed her post right there on the front page.

It wasn't any parent-hacking, computer spying, or monitoring of any kind.. the dog actually ratted her out completely by accident. She hasn't petted that dog all day today...


And...


Attention Media Outlets:
While we appreciate the interest you're all putting forth to get in touch with us regarding the video, we're not going to go on your talk show, not going to call in to your radio show, and not going to be in your TV mini-series.

Some of you think I made an acceptable parenting decision and others think I didn't. However, I can't think of any way myself or my daughter can respond to a media outlet that won't be twisted out of context. The Dallas news TV news already showed that in their brief 5 minute interview with the psychologist.

Additionally, there's absolutely NO way I'm going to send my child the message that it's OK to gain from something like this. It would send her a message that it's OK to profit at the expense of someone else's embarrassment or misfortune and that's now how I was raised, nor how she has been raised.

So I say thank you from all of us. If we have anything to say, we'll say it here on Facebook, and we'll say it publicly, but we won't say it to a microphone or a camera. There are too many other REAL issues out there that could use this attention you're giving us. My daughter isn't hurt, emotionally scarred, or otherwise damaged, but that kind of publicity has never seemed to be to have a positive effect on any child or family.

If you're a news outlet that wants to ask us a question, feel free to so via email. I'm sure by now my email address is easy enough to find. It might take me awhile to get to a response because I'd have to sort through the "Die you bastard" emails to find it, but we will respond if its something that we feel merits it. Otherwise, sorry... no interviews, no talk shows, no call-ins.

If we respond to anything, it will be on here, and it will be in a way that our words can't be misconstrued or edited for appeal to specific audience or shock value.

Now, I'm going to try to get to work for the day.
Best of luck to all of you out there... and PLEASE give my phone a break.