Clarke Posted February 11, 2012 Posted February 11, 2012 If people treated their kids atleast as well as their pets' date=' the world would be a much better place..[/quote'] How many kids were abandoned by their parents to end up in gas chambers ?
someone Posted February 11, 2012 Posted February 11, 2012 Stupid parenting, And, more importantly, raises the point about guns usage in USA..... As seen, people themselves cannot always control themselves, and create unnecessary situations just like that shooting of the laptop.
akshayxyz Posted February 11, 2012 Posted February 11, 2012 Stupid parenting, And, more importantly, raises the point about guns usage in USA..... As seen, people themselves cannot always control themselves, and create unnecessary situations just like that shooting of the laptop. I think, OP video is from australia.
Sachinism Posted February 11, 2012 Posted February 11, 2012 I think' date=' OP video is from australia.[/quote'] Must be US
akshayxyz Posted February 11, 2012 Posted February 11, 2012 ^ ok. I don't know much about accents.. can only make out English vs others... for some reason I felt it is from OZ.
EnterTheVoid Posted February 11, 2012 Author Posted February 11, 2012 The video is from US. Texas, more specifically.
Nova Posted February 12, 2012 Posted February 12, 2012 The video is from US. Texas' date= more specifically. North Carolina :--D
Magneto Posted February 12, 2012 Posted February 12, 2012 Like daughter, like father. Family of whiners! Possibly looking for a deal to replace the Kardashians and become the Family No.1 in the States so that they can have a reality show around them. But I think this whole nautanki has an ulterior motive - this is a gimmick to draw attention to and sell his self-published book whose fotu he has put up on his Facebook profile. http://www.facebook.com/tommyjordanauthor?sk=info He's apparently only 34 with a 16-yr old daughter. :woot: And the news channel coverages are only helping him out: [ame= shoots computer over Facebook post - YouTube[/ame] He's phamous now, so surely he can figure out a way to make his book a bestseller. And the laptop must have been a fake/junk one :giggle:
f.b.m Posted February 12, 2012 Posted February 12, 2012 How many kids were abandoned by their parents to end up in gas chambers ? Erm.. I should have added a caveat saying 'pets that they dont abandon'.. Doesnt sound that catchy though lol.. No but really, the only lesson that he is teaching is that you should resolve your disputes and disagreements by bullying and intimidation. There's a decent chance that she will actually learn this lesson, especially if its a repeated pattern.
f.b.m Posted February 12, 2012 Posted February 12, 2012 Anyway this looks like a bit of a public stunt. Time for granddad to nail the videocam..
Needforspeed Posted February 12, 2012 Posted February 12, 2012 This father made me sick..WTF, he is treating his daughter as if she is an enemy. She may have done wrong, but for God's sake, she is all of 15 years old, and haven't we all done stupid things at that age. Can't imagine our parents going around shooting our stuff. If this guy was doing it for publicity, then even more reason to detest him.
EnterTheVoid Posted February 12, 2012 Author Posted February 12, 2012 This father made me sick..WTF, he is treating his daughter as if she is an enemy. She may have done wrong, but for God's sake, she is all of 15 years old, and haven't we all done stupid things at that age. Can't imagine our parents going around shooting our stuff. If this guy was doing it for publicity, then even more reason to detest him.
Pagalpanti Posted February 12, 2012 Posted February 12, 2012 While its true that teens these days are more rebellious the way he dealt with the situation was OTT. If it works it'll just make his daughter go more farther from him and if it doesn't she's gonna get just more rebellious, so either way he's just made it more worse for him.
ganeshran Posted February 12, 2012 Posted February 12, 2012 Imagine if she brings home a guy he doesnt like :nervous:
anotherhawkeye Posted February 12, 2012 Posted February 12, 2012 Way to go dad...let's teach them kids some lessons...
EnterTheVoid Posted February 13, 2012 Author Posted February 13, 2012 Go dad go, this guy talks a lot of sense. Q: How effective do you think your punishment was (i.e. shooting her laptop and reading her letter online)? A: I think it was very effective on one front. She apparently didn’t remember being talked to about previous incidents, nor did she seem to remember the effects of having it taken away, nor did the eventual long-term grounding seem to get through to her. I think she thought “Well, I’ll just wait it out and I’ll get it back eventually.” Her behavior corrected for a short time, and then it went back to what it was before and worse. This time, she won’t ever forget and it’ll be a long time before she has an opportunity to post on Facebook again. I feel pretty certain that every day from then to now, whenever one of her friends mentions Facebook, she’ll remember it and wish she hadn’t done what she did. The second lesson I want her to learn is the value of a dollar. We don’t give her everything she asks for, but you can all imagine what it’s like being the only grandchild and the first child. Presents and money come from all sides when you’re young. Most of the things she has that are “cool” were bought or gifted that way. She’s always asked for very few things, but they’re always high-dollar things (iPod, laptop, smartphone, etc). Eventually she gets given enough money to get them. That’s not learning the value of a dollar. Its knowing how to save money, which I greatly applaud in her, but it’s not enough. She wants a digital SLR camera. She wants a 22 rifle like mine. She wants a car. She wants a smart phone with a data package and unlimited texting. (I have to hear about that one every week!) She thinks all these things are supposed to be given to her because she’s got parents. It’s not going to happen, at least not in our house. She can get a job and work for money just like everyone else. Then she can spend it on anything she wants (within reason). If she wants to work for two months to save enough to purchase a $1000 SLR camera with an $800 lens, then I can guarantee she’ll NEVER leave it outside at night. She’ll be careful when she puts it away and carries it around. She’ll value it much more because she worked so hard to get it. Instead, with the current way things have been given to her, she's on about her fourth phone and just expects another one when she breaks the one she has. She's not sorry about breaking it, or losing it, she's sorry only because she can't text her friends. I firmly believe she'll be a LOT more careful when she has to buy her own $299.00 Motorola Razr smartphone. Until then, she can do chores, and lots and lots of them, so the people who ARE feeding her, clothing her, paying for all her school trips, paying for her musical instruments, can have some time to relax after they finish working to support her and the rest of the family. She can either work to make money on her own, or she will do chores to contribute around the house. She’s known all along that all she has to do is get a job and a lot of these chores will go away. But if you’re too lazy to work even to get things you want for yourself, I’m certainly not going to let you sit idly on your rear-end with your face glued to both the TV and Facebook for 5 to 6 hours per night. Those days are over. Q: How did your daughter respond to the video and to what happened to her laptop? A: She responded to the video with “I can’t believe you shot my computer!” That was the first thing she said when she found out about it. Then we sat and we talked for quite a long while on the back patio about the things she did, the things I did in response, etc. Later after she’d had time to process it and I’d had time to process her thoughts on the matters we discussed, we were back to a semi-truce… you know that uncomfortable moment when you’re in the kitchen with your child after an argument and you’re both waiting to see which one’s going to cave in and resume normal conversation first? Yeah, that moment. I told her about the video response and about it going viral and about the consequences it could have on our family for the next couple of days and asked if she wanted to see some of the comments people had made. After the first few hundred comments, she was astounded with the responses. People were telling her she was going to commit suicide, commit a gun-related crime, become a drug addict, drop out of school, get pregnant on purpose, and become a stripper because she’s too emotionally damaged now to be a productive member of society. Apparently stripper was the job-choice of most of the commenters. Her response was “Dude… it’s only a computer. I mean, yeah I’m mad but pfft.” She actually asked me to post a comment on one of the threads (and I did) asking what other job fields the victims of laptop-homicide were eligible for because she wasn’t too keen on the stripping thing. Links: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8418461/dad-daughter-reach-truce-after-laptop-shooting
Ram Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 If my 15 year old daughter went on Facebook and ranted about doing daily chores, swore incessantly, is disrespectful of older people but above all said 'When you get old, I wont be there for you', I would give her a couple of b!tchslaps that she wouldnt forget for the rest of her life.
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