Father Teaches Daughter Lesson About Facebook

[Greenday]

Sounds like another whiny spoiled brat to me. I had to do chores when I was a kid and guess what? Even at 23, I still clean the windows, sweep, take out garbage, mow the lawn. My sister dusts and sweeps sometimes and she's 27. As soon as I turned 15, I started working. Hell, I was working two jobs by the time I was 16. I also played football. And bowling. And was the girl's lacrosse manager. And I still had fun. And it wasn't abusive.

It was only her laptop in the sense that her parents let her use it. If she wants one that's really her own, she can buy one herself. This is her second time getting in trouble with facebook usage, so sorry Seiffer, but they already tried the nice route. And this is definitely not emotional torture. If their kid really feels like what they did there was emotional torture, she should probably see a therapist and get a reality check.

[blas87]

Well, I was required to have a job as soon as I was legally old enough for a work permit. If I didn't learn a good work ethic at a young age, I probably wouldn't be where I am today.

The problem was, work became more important to me than school. I always thought homework was stupid, because we already spent 8 hours a day in school. I went to work after school, and went home later that night, and I wasn't still bagging groceries after work, you know?

[Rageaholic]

Yeah I'm torn about this.

She could have been a spoiled brat, but it sounds like she was just venting. She was expected to do a lot of chores around the house and with school that means very little time for fun. And getting a job? Assuming she even has time to fill out appplications, she would have been even more stressed out than before. And really, even if the rant was just teenage angst (which I doubt it was), does it really merit having your laptop destroyed?

Hard to tell, but I'm betting on overly demanding parents.

[blas87]

This was years ago, before Facebook and social networking in general (really we only had like mIRC and icq back then), but my parents found a way to listen in on my phone conversations without another phone, and let's just say, I was taught many lessons in talking pooh.

[Seifer]

To be honest, I know how she feels. But then again, my step-mother not only treated me and my sister like free slave labor, she also emotionally abused us. It's irritating to constantly work around the house because some fat slob is too lazy to do it themselves. It's even worse when that fat slob treats you like a non-human because they somehow feel superior.

I can't say how the girl's parents treat her, but it's obvious they don't mind taking things to the extreme. Destroying her laptop? Yeah, that's going to make her respect you. I'm sorry that they're so angry with their teenage daughter for expressing herself and cussing them out in a facebook post, but that's no reason to emotionally torture her.

If they feel her arguments are unfounded, why not discuss it? Express how angry they were at finding her post, and how disappointed they were with her disrespect. Maybe there's a reason she feels like a servant? From the chore list he read off in the video, it sounds like she's doing just about everything except cooking dinner. How about giving the pesky younger brother some responsibility? I think even a young child can make a bed or help take out the garbage.

[tropicsgoddess]

This father teaches his daughter a hard lesson about talking shit on Facebook. He one upped her on finding and printing out the Facebook post she made about him and his wife,even though the daughter blocked them from her Facebook page. Needless to say, the kid got owned...and HARD!


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