In my opinion, this guy is a GREAT dad!!

Navy Chief

Navy Chief

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This was mentioned on a news site I go to. I watched it in it's entirety (just over five minutes). To me, his reaction is spot on...and more parents should be this firm. Perhaps not the way he did it (depending on where you live!); but I applaud this guy!!!!

Pete

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Now that's how it's done. I applaud him on his stance and not wavering from it.

He reminds me of my dad when I was growing up. Luckly for me facebook and personal laptops weren't around at that time.

I didn't get my first cell phone until my third year of college, I still have a "dumb" phone because I know I'd get distracted by it.
 
BPbobafett1982 said:
Now that's how it's done. I applaud him on his stance and not wavering from it.

He reminds me of my dad when I was growing up. Luckly for me facebook and personal laptops weren't around at that time.

I didn't get my first cell phone until my third year of college, I still have a "dumb" phone because I know I'd get distracted by it.
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Oh, I am glad the internet wasn't around when I was a teenager, or I might not have graduated from H.S. Too much distraction. TV was enough of a distraction, and cable wasn't even available yet; just network. Pete
 
I found his Facebook page after my previous comment here. And I guess he's surprised at the reaction his video has produced, both positive and negative. He has several good posts responding to comments made by local media outlets.

His original video is also another 3 minutes longer than the one you linked to Chief. He reads the entirety of his daughters post, with all the vulgarity.

I'm going on 30 years soon, and I can tell you that if I had done something similar to this at this age, my parents would've done the same. Minus the .45 hollow point demonstration, more like a 30-06 at close range.

Brian P
 
My folks would have used a 12 gauge and buckshot repeatedly. Then at that age, I'd have been looking for somewhere else to live.
 
If you haven't already found it, you need to see the entire clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1ujzRidmU

The original FB post he made has had over 18,000 shares and garnerd about the same number of responses:
http://www.facebook.com/tommyjordaniii/posts/299559803434210

If you are on FB, you should read what he's posted since:
http://www.facebook.com/tommyjordaniii

If not, here's a few select quotes posted on a Chicago radio station's website:
http://www.litefm.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=421220&article=9744152

He said he had no idea just how big this would get, and will probably never do it again. But now that it's done, be's not backing down.
 
Tom Clayton said:
If you haven't already found it, you need to see the entire clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1ujzRidmU

The original FB post he made has had over 18,000 shares and garnerd about the same number of responses:
http://www.facebook.com/tommyjordaniii/posts/299559803434210

If you are on FB, you should read what he's posted since:
http://www.facebook.com/tommyjordaniii

If not, here's a few select quotes posted on a Chicago radio station's website:
http://www.litefm.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=421220&article=9744152

He said he had no idea just how big this would get, and will probably never do it again. But now that it's done, be's not backing down.
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And in my opinion, he shouldn't back down...
 
In my opinion parents and children should speak to each other face-to-face and not via facebook.

Cheers,
Huub
 
I think the dad, smoking on video with the cowboy hat and the 45 putting holes in a piece of valuable equipment is a poor example of parenting regardless of his daughter's wrong-doing.
 
way over the top reaction ... its one of those things that could be sorted fairly simply if you sat everyone round a table and actually talked about it ... and the dads hardley a prime example ...
 
Sorry, but I'm with dad. Kids nowdays are way over the top. In my day, and I admit that that day was a fair time ago, we would not have had the cast iron bulls to send a msg, a letter or in any way express the sentiments that his kid did.

Here's :medals: and a couple :guinness::guinness: to him for being so put out that he did what he did.
 
deKoven said:
Sorry, but I'm with dad. Kids nowdays are way over the top. In my day, and I admit that that day was a fair time ago, we would not have had the cast iron bulls to send a msg, a letter or in any way express the sentiments that his kid did.

Here's :medals: and a couple :guinness::guinness: to him for being so put out that he did what he did.
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DITTO!!!
 
This was on national news this AM. My first thought was that it was a fake, that this guy got a dead laptop and more or less fabricated the story. That was from the first release of the video. I've been duped before by video artists/attention grabbers and certainly some really good ones can persist even past a few news commentaries, time will tell. But if it's a real story throughout, I just hang my head in both bewilderment and understanding. I know several juveniles that are now in prison or rehab or a half-way house because that's where most delinquents end up. Ones who are self-made as well as ones who learned their behavior in part from whoever raised them, or didn't. Some parents are wracked with guilt, others incredibly keep reinforcing the attitudes that got their kid in trouble in the first place, a few fall deeply into desperation, and some flat out dis-own their kids. All this ran through my head after seeing the original video so now I'll have to watch the rest of them. I was also reminded of Carrol O'Conner and his heartfelt words on behalf of himself and the Partnership for a Drug Free America saying do anything to get your kids off drugs. That sort of do anything might be in play here, drugs or not, to get a child back into reality. I tell my kids every so often how proud we are that they make good decisions and keep their wits about them. As a wise relative once said to my mom when she was a young woman, "Life is wonderful, if you don't weaken."
 
Is it a bit over the top?

Sure, BUT, it also shows a concerned father who actually takes the time and interest to DO SOMETHING to help his child, albeit in an unusual manner. Unfortunately, there are a whole lot of parents who do not take the time or interest in their children's welfare to make ANY gesture.
 
I think that's where we differ in opinion. In my opinion the father has just invested time in making a video and not in raising his daughter. He should have talked to his daughter and not to the camera.

Perhaps Dekoven is right when he says "Kids nowdays are way over the top". But I think that has much to do with how you raise your children.

Cheers,
Huub
 
If I that had been my Dad, there wouldn't have been a Colt .45 in the video. No laptop either. What would have been in the video would have been my Dad, me...and my Dad's super-mad Ninja skills (4th degree Black Belt in Karate, something like a billion of the highest belts in Judo, Kung Fu, and Jujitsu, combined with the hand-to-hand fighting skills learned in the USMC, combined with all the boxing skills earned from being a "ring monkey" for a number of USMC boxers and the guy who was the US Navy Middle Weight boxing champ for 12 consecutive years). The video would have shown my Dad using all of his super-mad Ninja skills to break every bone in my body...including that itty bitty ones in my inner ears...then pulling those broking bones out of my body and using them to impale my bruised and swollen flesh. Then to make sure I had learned my lesson, he probably would have called 5 or 6 of our dogs to him, pointed to what was left of me and said "Sic 'em" and stood back and watched as our posse of mixed breed hounds and shepards tore one muscle fiber from the next and I simply ceased to exist.

Luckily, I was brought up with more than respect for my parents...I was brought up with FEAR for my parents. Fear that they could kick my butt! Fear that they could kick my butt out of their house! Fear that ALMIGHTY GOD himself would smite me down in my tracks if I dishonored my parents/grand parents/etc.

OBIO
 
huub vink said:
I think that's where we differ in opinion. In my opinion the father has just invested time in making a video and not in raising his daughter. He should have talked to his daughter and not to the camera.
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From what her father said, he'd already done the "talking to her" process, more than once. Sometimes it just takes drastic measures to get through to kid's thick know-it-all skulls.

It took me years to realize it, but the greatest favor my late mom and dad ever did for me -and I know now just how hard it was for them!- was when they told me the last time I got in serious trouble with the law (I was just barely into my 18th year)...

"...We're terribly sorry for you son, but this time you're just going to have to face the consequences you've brought on yourself by your rash behavior. We're not going to bail you out this time, nor are we going to squander our retirement savings buying you out of trouble."

Fortunately for me I had a wise and compassionate judge who gave me a choice of a six-to-ten year sentence to prison or join one of the armed forces. I chose the Army...

I've no doubt whatever that had my parent's not made that very heart-wrenchingly hard decision, I'd have been much the worse for it. I desperately needed that cold dose of reality!:pop4:
 
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