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Dad shoots daughter's laptop.
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Get her teddy bear addicted to drugs....
Hey! Not cool messing with the teddy bears!
I've been a step-parent to adolescents. Believe me, that attitude of "I ought to get paid for chores" runs rampant, and that child's Facebook rant is not that unusual. It's deplorable, but not outside the realm of what kids typically think.
Obviously the man loves his child, otherwise he wouldn't have spent half a day working on her computer. But I think that he was tremendously wounded and disappointed, and he reacted while the hurt feelings was at the forefront of his mind. You can see him shaking and fumbling with his cigarette and wadding up the note because he was so upset that he doesn't know what to do with his hands. Interestingly, his grip steadied a lot when he got his hands on the pistol. Maybe it's because he'd finally decided how he was going to vent his frustration.
I hope that if he had sat down to think about the consequences, he would have thought better of the whole thing. But that's the risk of the internet. This is why we don't let twenty year old violin players post pictures of themselves in their underwear without a bit of counseling.
Well, if it wasn't, it's how we're going to picture you from now on.
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Jesus Col, I didn't. In fact, I was painfully slow in realizing the pic was of some poor woman about to be stoned to death. I didn't expect to see anything like that in the Humor Section...
Emoticons just can't convey that either...
The real tragedy in this, to which AHW alluded, is that there just aren't enough 20 year old violin players posting lingerie pictures of themselves on RWI.
There was almost enough once....... but then AHW had to go and put on her counseling hat. :-(
As for parenting: damned if you do and damned if you don't. Only by the grace of God do any of us turn out ok.
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There was almost enough once....... but then AHW had to go and put on her counseling hat. :-(
As for parenting: damned if you do and damned if you don't. Only by the grace of God do any of us turn out ok.
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LA Times............
Best. Parent. Ever. Tommy Jordan for president.
That’s the response Jordan is getting from tens of thousands of people on the Internet after a YouTube video featuring the North Carolina dad shooting up his 15-year-old daughter’s laptop with a .45 went viral this week.
The shooting part -- which has provided a glorious moment of catharsis to many parents -- doesn’t happen until the very end of the eight-minute video called "Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen." First, Jordan sets the scene by reading from an expletive-filled Facebook post written by his daughter, in which she complains about the chores her parents make her do.
Bratty? Definitely. Typical? Totally.
And that’s why Jordan’s dramatic response touched a nerve among tens of thousands of parents.
Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. This one is for your mother. Bang. Bang. Bang.
Best. Parent. Ever. Tommy Jordan for president.
That’s the response Jordan is getting from tens of thousands of people on the Internet after a YouTube video featuring the North Carolina dad shooting up his 15-year-old daughter’s laptop with a .45 went viral this week.
The shooting part -- which has provided a glorious moment of catharsis to many parents -- doesn’t happen until the very end of the eight-minute video called "Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen." First, Jordan sets the scene by reading from an expletive-filled Facebook post written by his daughter, in which she complains about the chores her parents make her do.
Bratty? Definitely. Typical? Totally.
And that’s why Jordan’s dramatic response touched a nerve among tens of thousands of parents.
Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. This one is for your mother. Bang. Bang. Bang.
What none of us see, and what is totally absent from the video, is the context in which this occurred.
I can only speak for me and my childhood, but I'll bet The FIRST time any of you blocked your parents from your FB account and publicly called your dad an a$$-b@g-dou(he-nozzle-trailer-living -sister-sleeping-one-eyebrow-having-sad-sack-sorry-sonofa-mothefra(king-idiot" would earn you a little "chat". The second time, would get you grounded. The ninth time, just might get your laptop shot full of holes.
Also, as Nick pointed out, in a place where, "ya'll" is a pronoun, resorting to the yee-haw method of justice doesn't take too much persuasion.
My point is, consider the context. Iit sounds like this isn't the first time down the "I have issues with my parents" road for this family. Is it appropriate behavior on ANYONE's part? Of course not. But it sure does look satisfying. And cathartic. And I think that the "sell or donate the laptop" opinion, while certainly offering more utility, forgets exactly how difficult it will be for that kid to walk past a blown up laptop proudly displayed in a locked case (where I would keep it ) is far more likely to be a potent reminder of, "Look what I had...Maybe I should keep my tone a little more respectful".
Of course, I would argue that a Glock would have allowed him to put 9 more rounds into the offending piece of hardware, offering a bit more surety regarding it's demise.
Truthfully, I wouldn't mind buying him a pitcher of his favorite beer and having that debate.
Will
(EDIT: "I ought to get paid for chores.":lol1
I can only speak for me and my childhood, but I'll bet The FIRST time any of you blocked your parents from your FB account and publicly called your dad an a$$-b@g-dou(he-nozzle-trailer-living -sister-sleeping-one-eyebrow-having-sad-sack-sorry-sonofa-mothefra(king-idiot" would earn you a little "chat". The second time, would get you grounded. The ninth time, just might get your laptop shot full of holes.
Also, as Nick pointed out, in a place where, "ya'll" is a pronoun, resorting to the yee-haw method of justice doesn't take too much persuasion.
My point is, consider the context. Iit sounds like this isn't the first time down the "I have issues with my parents" road for this family. Is it appropriate behavior on ANYONE's part? Of course not. But it sure does look satisfying. And cathartic. And I think that the "sell or donate the laptop" opinion, while certainly offering more utility, forgets exactly how difficult it will be for that kid to walk past a blown up laptop proudly displayed in a locked case (where I would keep it
) is far more likely to be a potent reminder of, "Look what I had...Maybe I should keep my tone a little more respectful".Of course, I would argue that a Glock would have allowed him to put 9 more rounds into the offending piece of hardware, offering a bit more surety regarding it's demise.
Truthfully, I wouldn't mind buying him a pitcher of his favorite beer and having that debate.
Will
(EDIT: "I ought to get paid for chores.":lol1
