[Jords]

Originally Posted by Harry!

All I could think was while watching in that video: "Only in America..."

They love being dramatic.

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..there's two ways to look at it though Marc...they have an ungrateful, disrespectful, lazy daughter....yet they keep showering her with gifts and dad takes time off work to fix her laptop...and they thought that would make her a better person

Yeah but they've not realised how ungrateful she is until now. After he saw Hannah's post on Facebook. That's when the penny dropped and he realised she needs to be reprimanded.

This may seem extreme but it sends a great message of parents' frustrations and dismay at their childrens ungratefulness. I don't care if some people don't agree with me on this one.

[MTVN]

Meh I've not read this whole thread but seems to me that the daughter's a bit of a brat and the Dad's a bit of a prick. We don't really know everything but he does seem like a bit of an OTT strict parent, and him doing that would just make me resent him more.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

In africa you disobey and your parents hit you with a hard plastic hose repeatedly or you have to stick your hand out and they repeatedly hit the hard part of your hand. Shooting her laptop is not that much of a horror. spoiled kids of this generation need a bit of harsh parenting in their life.


He's hot though with that southern accent

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Marc

Yeah but they've not realised how ungrateful she is until now. After he saw Hannah's post on Facebook. That's when the penny dropped and he realised she needs to be reprimanded.

This may seem extreme but it sends a great message of parents' frustrations and dismay at their childrens ungratefulness. I don't care if some people don't agree with me on this one.

..It sends me a great message too...don't choose to buy your kids all this stuff in the first place unless they've earned it and then publicly let them know how disappointing as offspring they have been.

Originally Posted by MTVN

Meh I've not read this whole thread but seems to me that the daughter's a bit of a brat and the Dad's a bit of a prick. We don't really know everything but he does seem like a bit of an OTT strict parent, and him doing that would just make me resent him more.

You didn't need to read it.....that about sums it up perfectly

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..It sends me a great message too...don't choose to buy your kids all this stuff in the first place unless they've earned it and then publicly let them know how disappointing as offspring they have been.

Oh I can see that they have a fault on that behalf but that just doesn't happen in this day and age. Her parents are divorced and it's obviously hard on the girl when that happened so it's not as if the father can just do nothing, so he brought her stuff. I sure as hell don't know what it's like when parents split up as mine are still happily married but my experiences of growing up I know that kids can act spoilt and ungrateful and I have done so myself, and punishment is a great way of learning from those lessons in life.

[Marc]

MTVN sums it up well. But if I were to pick a side I would definitely pick the fathers.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..It sends me a great message too...don't choose to buy your kids all this stuff in the first place unless they've earned it and then publicly let them know how disappointing as offspring they have been.

He probably wouldn't have made the problem public if she didn't. Oh well. Big thumbs up sir. Reminds everyone a parent is not suppose to be a friend you're supposed to be a PARENT doggonit!!

[Patrick]

What a guy.

Originally Posted by Smithy

That was really really retarded shooting it, he should have just sold it.

That was the best part..

[Patrick]

LOL I was going to add his daughter on Facebook just to see if she was hot, but then realized she wouldn't be able to accept.

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

He probably wouldn't have made the problem public if she didn't. Oh well. Big thumbs up sir. Reminds everyone a parent is not suppose to be a friend you're supposed to be a PARENT doggonit!!

Very true!

[Jords]

Originally Posted by Patrick

LOL I was going to add his daughter on Facebook just to see if she was hot, but then realized she wouldn't be able to accept.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Marc

Oh I can see that they have a fault on that behalf but that just doesn't happen in this day and age. Her parents are divorced and it's obviously hard on the girl when that happened so it's not as if the father can just do nothing, so he brought her stuff. I sure as hell don't know what it's like when parents split up as mine are still happily married but my experiences of growing up I know that kids can act spoilt and ungrateful and I have done so myself, and punishment is a great way of learning from those lessons in life.

Well, even in a divorced situation, 'buying' your children is never the answer and only creates what the father is complaining the daughter has become. I'm not questioning that there should be a punishment...only the punishment he chose. He needs to take a step back, take a deep breath and think about what his contribution is in what his daughter has become.....and they need to do some serious work to resolve that...preferably one that doesn't involve bullets and laptops. America is the home of therapists...I'm sure they'll figure it out

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Visage

I also think Kids today are more disrespectful BECAUSE of the parents, not because they're inherently rotten. Who bought the kid her iPod, laptop, cell phone, etc? Not her apparently. And by not reinforcing that to live in a materialistic society you have to actually earn things, they created their own monster who rants on facebook.

Yeah good point, reminds me of that quote "those who criticise our generation forget who raised it"

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

He probably wouldn't have made the problem public if she didn't. Oh well. Big thumbs up sir. Reminds everyone a parent is not suppose to be a friend you're supposed to be a PARENT doggonit!!

'Public' is how some young people do things.....Parents can choose a different route...if they want to

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Ammi

Well, even in a divorced situation, 'buying' your children is never the answer and only creates what the father is complaining the daughter has become. I'm not questioning that there should be a punishment...only the punishment he chose. He needs to take a step back, take a deep breath and think about what his contribution is in what his daughter has become.....and they need to do some serious work to resolve that...preferably one that doesn't involve bullets and laptops. America is the home of therapists...I'm sure they'll figure it out

True true.. but this guy seems to be used to guns and stuff, I can't question his social upbringing and how he sees punishment. All I can see is that punishment SHOULD be made. And he only posted it on Fbook because his daughter posted her stupid comments on Fbook.

[Jake.]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

In fairness to JH95, the violence comment was in reply to my previous comment that I'd far rather see this (dad destorying her laptop etc) - than the father lifting his hands to her ...... and what you quoted there, was in reply to the 'lifting hands to her' .... I'm pretty sure anyway that's where JH95 was coming from.

Thank you Pyramid, that was what I was originally referring to

[Z]

Originally Posted by Jords

Spot on Jack.

I think a few members feel all grown up now theyre no longer teens and are no longer willing to understand. I mean Im not a great moaner, and people like the girl would probably piss me off tbh. However I can relate to the tiredness and even though yeah shed get on my nerves and I disagree with how she voiced her opinion that doesnt make what her dad did automatically right. I can see where shes coming from to a degree and imo what he did was a lot uncalled for and contradicting.

And if parents got humilated everytime their children moaned and bitched about them no parent would ever show their face
Parents will not give a damn what school friends think of them, and if they do theyre certainly not very mature.

I take it this is aimed at me. Your perspective on things change with your circumstances. At the moment I am living off my own money, by myself, in a foreign country, so I've grown up a lot and my views on my parents and my relationship with them is very different to the one I had before I moved away. I don't really appreciate the dig. It's not that I'm not willing to understand - it's that I'm far more understanding of the father now that I've been living my own life and have a better understanding of the value of money now that I live off the money I make.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by Ammi

'Public' is how some young people do things.....Parents can choose a different route...if they want to

Seems to me he did before innit, yet she did it again. So he thought ok, ima embarrass ya in front of your "friends" too then suga.

[Jack_]

I wonder what he'd do if she did actually defy the odds and be 'disrespectful' again.

Perhaps he'd burn all her clothes, light a stick of dynamite in her room, or have her hung, drawn and quartered on live TV.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Marc

True true.. but this guy seems to be used to guns and stuff, I can't question his social upbringing and how he sees punishment. All I can see is that punishment SHOULD be made. And he only posted it on Fbook because his daughter posted her stupid comments on Fbook.

...copying his teenage childrens behaviour....that'll get him far....LOL

[Patrick]

Originally Posted by Jack_

I wonder what he'd do if she did actually defy the odds and be 'disrespectful' again.

Perhaps he'd burn all her clothes, light a stick of dynamite in her room, or have her hung, drawn and quartered on live TV.

Or more likely, shoot her.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Zee

I take it this is aimed at me. Your perspective on things change with your circumstances. At the moment I am living off my own money, by myself, in a foreign country, so I've grown up a lot and my views on my parents and my relationship with them is very different to the one I had before I moved away. I don't really appreciate the dig. It's not that I'm not willing to understand - it's that I'm far more understanding of the father now that I've been living my own life and have a better understanding of the value of money now that I live off the money I make.

I think though Zee, when he reels off all the things he has bought for his daughter, it doesn't actually come across that he has helped to teach her the value of anything or that it has to be earned and you don't always get what you want. He has contributed to make her the person she is then he has publicly declared how disappointing she is...I'm sure he thinks his actions are correct....but imo they are far from it

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Jack_

I wonder what he'd do if she did actually defy the odds and be 'disrespectful' again.

Perhaps he'd burn all her clothes, light a stick of dynamite in her room, or have her hung, drawn and quartered on live TV.

...or maybe...just stop buying her the stuff in the first place until he's assured she's more appreciative...save him a fortune in pyrotechnics

[Marc]

Very valid point Greg.

It's entirely down to personal situations and experiences that we can have views on this. I was brought up to respect my parents and everything they do for me so I see this as a good video showing deserving punishment