Parenting the Facebook way......

There are so many ways to punish a teenage not like that. I rather banned them using computer.

I also saw that youtube video of the father shooting his daughters laptop and basically punishing her for life. I didn't think he did anything abusive or wrong. She was being completely disrespectful and unappreciative to her parents. My daughter is only 8 years old and at this point I would not use this tactic. But if in the future she acts like that child did and says the things she was saying about her parents, I would use those tactics. Sometimes you have to get them where it hurts. If good old grounding doesn't work these days, then you have to figure out another way of punishment. Children are so disrespectful to their parents these days, and I can only imagine what the future will be like when these spoiled kids grow up and run this country. It's a scarey thought. I think there is a fine line to what you can do, and that some parents may get carried away. But as far as the two parents you mentioned, I say "good for you". We can't let our children just walk all over us.

Posting something on my child's page, definitely...better yet I would ban them from FaceBook either for a while or permanently, depending on what they did. But I think the shooting of the laptop is a bit extreme. Not because of what many people may be saying "Its too violent, too dramatic, its overkill". Every time I see that video the only thing I can think of is how much money was wasted on buying that laptop only to shoot it ..... coulda sold it or even gave it away...didn't hafta ruin it

Yes, p.a.L., I agree also, in this world you have to do, what you gotta do, ! Although it seems harsh, in the long run, you are doing the teenager a favor, because in 'life', things are even tougher than that !

I might. I read somewhere that a kid was picking on another kid on FB, so his mom posted that he wet the bed until he was 9 so heknow how he fealt to have embarrassing things posted for the world to see. The mom wanted to teach him to be kind and not a bully.

It's great way to make others think over your ways of punishing.

I too saw the dad shooting the laptop on youtube. I thought that was brilliant! I think as parents we a lot of times have our hands tied because some people out there see let's say a disciplinary spanking over something as abuse. My daughter loses things that are important to her like a lot of tv time, her dual screen, doesn't get to play a game on another system, etc. She can't stand it thinks we're "meanies". To my thinking if the kid isn't going to respect the parent(s) then why should they get to use or have things that are fun for them. I as "meanie mom" have told her she's gonna be my age now and not know what is on tv if she keeps up her disrespect and attitude, etc. Kids just don't understand the value of hardwork anymore. Their definition usually has to do with anything where they have to get off their butts away from the tv, or computer, etc; that's hardwork to them. I'm all for inovative ways to punish kids, w/o beatings so all the people out there who don't have kids but think they know everything on parenting can't say much.