OMG, Im not sure I could be this mean.
By bonnie
@bunnybon7 (50973)
Holiday, Florida
February 11, 2012 4:40pm CST
A guy on FB found his daughters post and shot her laptop. Guess thats tough love. NOT A REFERRAL.
http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/2012/02/11/daughter-rants-on-facebook-dad-shoots-laptop/?subscriber=1
this is a trip and kind of funny. glad my dad was never that mean. Did your parents ever do anything to compare to this?
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@Latrivia (2878)
• United States
13 Feb 12
That's not mean, that's just punishment. If you want mean look up stories of parents stuffing their kids in closets for accidentally dropping a dish. That's mean. My father did way worse to me and my brothers and I wouldn't even call what we went through 'mean'. Most of the time we had it coming.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
14 Feb 12
yes i really think there could have been a much less scarey way of making a point. plus hes teaching his kids violence. he doesnt seem to realise kids do this some times. mine used to say to me and others they hated me when they was mad, but id just smile and say, dont think, im your mother and you can never truely hate me. later, they would say they loved me and they was sorry. maturety is shown by controling your temper.
@talfonso (246)
• United States
14 Feb 12
Riiiight. That may be too harsh a punishment, but look at the tough love her daughter receives, well, with a side of extra resentment. If she would have done EFT or took the time off her lunch break to talk it out with her guidance counselor, she would have spared her laptop. There are much healthier ways to deal with strict parenting, and letting ourselves relax before tasks is a good way to dealt with it.
There are much healthier ways to deal with resentment, anyway.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
15 Feb 12
exactly. hes just proving to all that hes not only dangerous, but nuts to boot
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
13 Feb 12
my dad probably would have used buckshot..but then again,he'd probably just take it because he usually balked at destroying something he paid for.
but then i would never do something like the kid did..back in the day,we knew better.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
14 Feb 12
The only thing that I can think of that was even remotely close to that was when my mother locked me out of the house because I wasn't home in time for curfew and she thought that I should sleep in the car that night so that she could prove a point. However, it kind of backfired on her because she had failed to lock the bathroom window and there was a ladder in the backyard, so I did manage to get back into the house, although not easily.
I personally cannot see ever destroying something the way that this father has done, but I do think that it proved a very important point.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
15 Feb 12
i imagine he got the point to her. but its still scarey way to teach your kids.
@Jessi_T (379)
• United States
13 Feb 12
That guy must be related to my husband. Just joking he has never done nothing so extreme though he is constantly locking the kids laptops up, because he doesn't like this friend or that friend they have been chatting with on a social networking site we are all members of. He has no clue that they can access the internet from their Kindle Fires, as well as their cell phones.
As for me, no my parents never did anything that compared to that. Of coarse FB wasn't around when I was a teen and I never had a laptop, nor a fancy cell phone. My first phone I got my senior year of high school was a tracfone and nothing special but of coarse it was to me. =)
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
11 Feb 12
I saw it already. Yeah I think it is extreme for the father to do that. At the same time I think the daughter had it coming to her for what she wrote on Facebook.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
12 Feb 12
yes but men can do things like that. most moms relent. also, he should have given it to a charity or school or something. men are sure funny.
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
12 Feb 12
My daughter is furious with this father... but I think the daughter got what she deserved for her smart 'mouth'... If she were my daughter she would be earning money to buy her own computer after that. I bet she will think twice or three times before trying a stunt like that again.
@Blondie2222 (28611)
• United States
12 Feb 12
My parents were never that mean when they found out we were doing wrong things on the internet. They would just punish us and take internet away. That's a little outrageous what that dad did but it was kind of coming to her from what she did though. I guess now she learned her lesson and will never post things like that again.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
12 Feb 12
i think it would have worked just as well to take the pc from her for a long time. this was a bit extreme.
@Kasiviswanathan2k (288)
• India
12 Feb 12
This is extremely bad thing for the father to a child. Become a good father to the child it's not good to take their freedom. Anyway we need to learn became a good father. In my view of the modern world it's fully silly about the father.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
12 Feb 12
i think he was a bit extreme i mean, take the pc away for pete sakes for a while. he needs to check his temper a bit.
@RitterSport (2451)
• Lippstadt, Germany
12 Feb 12
Have not seen this video but heard about that as well.
Thanks to you dear bunnybon cause its highest time that someone says the truth about this weirdo father. I just saw how he is preised on FB for his stupid actions and lifted on a pedestal for it.
When I was a teen computers just started to be available for everyone, so no social networks and e mail in my teen years. So consequently no parents shooting at the laptop.
But instead other actions of meanness like just not talking to your own children only cause they used the word no or wanted something different out of life from what you wanted for them or they refused to be molded into something they didnt want to be.
Happened to me so I know a bit about mean parents.....