Raghav_12 Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 I am kinda sure that this dad will soon be buying a new laptop for her daughter. He was mad at her and for some justified reasons. But that doesn't mean he gonna disown her or something. He'll continue to provide her with money to buy all these gadgets. Unfortunate thing is that all of this should have stayed within family but went public.
anotherhawkeye Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 If my 15 year old daughter went on Facebook and ranted about doing daily chores' date=' 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.[/quote'] You have a 15 year old daughter? You look kind of young for that.
MonishaSarabhai Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 at least the girl's excuse is that she is just 15. what is his excuse.. there were so many better ways for him to get his point across but he chose to shoot the laptop ? Crazy !!
DomainK Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 at least the girl's excuse is that she is just 15. what is his excuse.. there were so many better ways for him to get his point across but he chose to shoot the laptop ? Crazy !! Did you not notice the half-burnt cigarette in his fingers, the cowboy hat, the gun, the failed attempted coolness in his speech (I bet he practiced it for hours) - everything indicates that the video is less about the daughter and more about the man himself. He was more eager to advertise his cool punishment skills than about the objective of the punishment. I also sense a lack of proximity between the daughter and the parents, something the parents are to be blamed for. A gap that just got a few more inches wider with the shootout and the slain laptop. He is lecturing about the value of a dollar, how is shooting a laptop going to teach it to a 15 years old, I have no idea. All I can see is a few hundred dollars wasted without any proper reason. Like someone else pointed out, donating the laptop to someone needy would have made the point much better. If he knew the value of a dollar, he would not have wasted the laptop like that. He should be thankful that his daughter not only has learned the art of saving money, but also that she is spending her savings on productive things like laptops and smartphone and not drugs and parties.
EnterTheVoid Posted February 13, 2012 Author Posted February 13, 2012 The girl is too lazy to do her own chores but expects her dad to buy her laptops and phones. She than uses the laptop to rant on Facebook about how her dad doesn't buy her anything! Dad's got my vote, go dad go!
rabinjackman Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 Did you not notice the half-burnt cigarette in his fingers, the cowboy hat, the gun, the failed attempted coolness in his speech (I bet he practiced it for hours) - everything indicates that the video is less about the daughter and more about the man himself. He was more eager to advertise his cool punishment skills than about the objective of the punishment. I also sense a lack of proximity between the daughter and the parents, something the parents are to be blamed for. A gap that just got a few more inches wider with the shootout and the slain laptop. He is lecturing about the value of a dollar, how is shooting a laptop going to teach it to a 15 years old, I have no idea. All I can see is a few hundred dollars wasted without any proper reason. Like someone else pointed out, donating the laptop to someone needy would have made the point much better. If he knew the value of a dollar, he would not have wasted the laptop like that. He should be thankful that his daughter not only has learned the art of saving money, but also that she is spending her savings on productive things like laptops and smartphone and not drugs and parties. the father and daughter have made up a long while back and enjoying the attention the video has gotten them. whats this long lecture for? :cantstop:
Texy Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 He should be thankful that his daughter not only has learned the art of saving money, but also that she is spending her savings on productive things like laptops and smartphone and not drugs and parties. Seriously? so in other words he should continue supplying her demand otherwise it will force her to take drugs and go to raves? No other alternatives?
DomainK Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 Seriously? so in other words he should continue supplying her demand otherwise it will force her to take drugs and go to raves? No other alternatives? Seriously? Where did you draw that conclusion from? :facepalm:
DomainK Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 the father and daughter have made up a long while back and enjoying the attention the video has gotten them. whats this long lecture for? :cantstop: Yeah, attention seekers will always get together to get a share in the attention. As far as the lecture is concerned, I am practicing to enter into some discussions with Ram and Mariyam. :dontknow:
rabinjackman Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 Yeah, attention seekers will always get together to get a share in the attention. As far as the lecture is concerned, I am practicing to enter into some discussions with Ram and Mariyam. :dontknow: Nice one. :cantstop:
Stuge Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 from this thread :I see Sree_India - and Texy > Rebel dad in the making :D
Yoda-esque Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 Dad seems to abit of a stentorian.. Needs to ease up
Moncy Posted February 13, 2012 Posted February 13, 2012 It's very likely that the girl's self esteem is demolished right now. What dad did in the video made her more rebellious. Both are wrong. Dad just made things at home go from bad to worse. I hate spoiled ungrateful brats, btw.
KhanSaab Posted February 14, 2012 Posted February 14, 2012 If the dad had done a good job of parenting her from day 1 then she wouldnt be spouting silly nonsense at age 15.
anotherhawkeye Posted February 14, 2012 Posted February 14, 2012 If the dad had done a good job of parenting her from day 1 then she wouldnt be spouting silly nonsense at age 15. Sure, let's put all the blame on the parent. Parenting has very less to do with how a kid grows up. On an average family, the culture and environment (friends, teachers, etc) plays a much bigger role.
DomainK Posted February 14, 2012 Posted February 14, 2012 Sure, let's put all the blame on the parent. Parenting has very less to do with how a kid grows up. On an average family, the culture and environment (friends, teachers, etc) plays a much bigger role. Huh?? I can understand if you say that other factors do contribute significantly, but parenting still plays the biggest roles by miles in how a kid grows up.
ViruRulez Posted February 14, 2012 Posted February 14, 2012 This was not the best of things to do. But I also have a problem with the way Western children grow rebellious when they are in teens. I don't want to paint everyone with the same brush but the family value in Western families seems be have got lost.. at least compared to India etc. There are exceptions everywhere but as a whole an Indian child normally respects his parents in teenage years. If not, "something is gonna get hurt real bad" as Russel Peters said. :P I am against child abuse but at the same time if disciplining children or even behaving affectionately with their children is against Western laws then there is some serious problem. For example, the Norway couple whose children were taken away for feeding with hands or for affectionately letting them sleep on the same bed sounds weird. Similarly, I see that most Western countries even regard basic disciplining of their children and teaching them morality as against the laws i.e. Child abuse laws. But the problem is that a lot of those children who are not disciplined also become rebellious and lose moral integrity too early in life which directly or indirectly also affects their education and career later on in life. At the same time, I am not sure why many Western families force children to earn money in their early teens. Yes, maybe they are for pocket expenses. But then in India, there are hardly many teenagers who are working .. at least no 14 or 15 year olds. And why do teenagers need such huge amount of pocket money. As a 14 or 15 year old, me and most of my friends from middle class families used to get hardly a few rupees for pocket expenses... and our pocket expenses were limited to probably purchasing a chocolate or a chewing gum. :P Comics, novels, books etc. or any material related to educational help were bought by our parents and we never needed to purchase them from our pocket money. And that did not mean unlimited supply of comic books etc. and we were only allowed limited number of comics and novels per month though we used to exchange with friends for reading which made the stock a lot better. So, Western kids also need to understand the value of money right for their age and convince their parents for the right type of spending especially related to education etc. Having said that, I do not understand why a teenager should be involved in partying or boozing when it is important to concentrate on studies instead. And I am not sure why children are so dependent on the internet for studies nowadays. We never had internet in our whole school life and we also became creative. In fact, the first computer I had in school was in the 9th grade and that too was a dabba without even a hard drive and they used to teach archaic languages such as basic, logo and cobol in those. Computer education is important for students nowadays but the kids also need to grow their own creativity and think outside the world of internet. At their age, they must also be involved in physical activities in real life instead of becoming Facebook addicts. For that matter, even game addicts as is the case with the console generation. Western parents on the other hand need to sponsor their children's education and basic recreation a bit more. During their teen years, they should give their children somewhat monetary independence for "creative purposes" including education and basic recreation. At the same time, the Western authorities need to relax a bit of child abuse rules. If a parent comes home drunk and starts beating his child it is abuse for sure. But if the mom or dad teaches basics of ethics and disciplines their children then I am not sure how that can be considered as abuse. In a way, Western culture nowadays promotes rebellious nature at times which is not the best of thing to do. Hope that they find a middle ground soon. And Western society as a whole including the children needs to learn to respect their parents and behave according to their age. Once they are independent and have got a good job or set up a good business, I do not have any problem with them being rebellious unless it involves violence. But in teens it is quite unacceptable IMO.
Vijay.Sharma Posted February 14, 2012 Posted February 14, 2012 For example' date=' the Norway couple whose children were taken away for feeding with hands or for affectionately letting them sleep on the same bed sounds weird.[/quote']WTF? Is that why the kid was taken away from the couple - for making the kid sleep on the same bed as the parents? If that is the case then all Indian children less than the age of 3 will have to be taken away by the government because all Indian parents with children less than 3 years old are pedophiles as per Norway morality
Vijay.Sharma Posted February 14, 2012 Posted February 14, 2012 At the same time' date=' I am not sure why many Western families force children to earn money in their early teens. Yes, maybe they are for pocket expenses. But then in India, there are hardly many teenagers who are working .. at least no 14 or 15 year olds.[/quote']I think it has a lot to do with the cost of education. Usually higher education (under-graduate courses and beyond) are very expensive in the US and most West European nations. Many parents cannot afford it (or haven't planned for educating the kids by stashing away money in investments, etc like our middle class parents do). Given this, what is the kid going to do sitting at home? They generally start earning money and some of the wisely brought up ones use that money to pay for their own education. Doing an Engg course or for that matter even a normal Bachelor of Arts course in the US is probably 10 times more expensive than in India. In India even a maid servant can afford to send her children to do a BA course but in the US and western Europe that is just not the case. Others can provide more relevant information on this ...
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