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

[aeromed202]

Good for you making the most of it too I've had that talk with the kids too, adjusted for age, that they are responsible for their own situations and actions. At some point either the efforts of rearing take or they don't.

 

[Prowler1111]

way to go FB Dad..i´m 100% with him

Prowler

 

[EasyEd]

Hey All,

In August 2011 this happened.

This Facebook update, posted by a dad who came upon his son Chris's profile when the teenager forgot to log off, is just that thing. Here, Shine readers, for your viewing pleasure, the best Facebook update we've ever seen:

In case you can't read it: "To all of Chris' friends: This is his father. My son carelessly left his account logged in [sic] so I decided to snoop around. Upon reading my son's personal information, I would like to clear a few things up. My son is not a "gangsta," he will not "beat a ho's ass" and he will most certainly not "roll a fatty wit his boyz." So for all of those who think he is some hard ass thug, think again...he is Chris _____[redacted], a 15 year old kid that was afraid of the dark untill he was 12 and cried at the end of Marley and Me."

However this sort of thing requires thought and parenting skill.

I guess the easy solution is to get a gun. People like this give the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution a bad name. I've no doubt all the appropriate notes are being taken by law enforcement nationwide.

Both my kids had facebook pages at that age (as they do now) and extended family members in 3 states saw what they wrote. Neither would have considered that kind of disrespect toward their parents and if they did we would have known near instantly. Both of my children have been given quite a lot as well and just a couple weeks ago my then 17 year-old son was listing what all he had received and expressing how much he did appreciate it. He has seen lots of other kids with a lot less as well as some with a lot more.

-Ed-

 

[stiz]

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 might just be me, but i get a feeling it was more of "do it .. NOW! OR ELSE!" sort of talking ... rather than actually trying to sort things out, buts thats just me

 

[rhumbaflappy]

Grounding the daughter didn't work, so why would executing her laptop work. What's next? Shoot the girl? If she's dead then you won't feel disrespected.

Maybe Daddy needs to learn the difference between venting his own anger and reaching a tenable relationship with his girl. I wish both of them luck... but I wouldn't bet she will be there for him when he needs help. He sure isn't being there for her now. Sad to see a parent acting out in response to a teenager acting out.

What? Anyone here that's had teenagers not been dissed by them? It's been happening for thousands of years. Get a grip Daddy, you are not that special that it won't happen to you. Get some counseling.

And for all of us parents... we cannot always control how our children behave. We can control how we behave. We can choose not to go on our daughter's facebook page and let the world see what an a-hole we truly are, and what a dysfunctional family we are 'ruling'.

Dick

 

[Sascha66]

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.

Roger that! Expecting your kids to do somes chores is absolutely right, being violent about it is definitely wrong!

Sascha

- Edit -

I was a bit too rash about my comment just on seeing the video, after reading some more about it I think this was just the way to get his daughters attention and put her on the right track!

 

[Willy]

Yeah, he was a bit over the top, but in raising 4 into adulthood I found with a couple of mine that going over the top was sometimes needed just to get their attention. Just another tool in the parenting toolbox if used judiciously.