The way parents discipline their kids now: with reactionary YouTube videos titled “Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen” filled with guns and hollow-point bullets and shot-up laptops posted to their child’s Facebook wall. That’s how some rootin’-tootin’ dude on Facebook named Tommy Jordan does it anyway (I’ve taken the liberty to kick off a “Crazy Cowboy Dad” meme above). Makes me kind of long for the day when my dad would come home, slide off his belt, and beat the snot out of me with it.
Allow Tommy to explain himself…
Warning: Since this video seems to have gone crazy, I figure I’ll post this notice. I’m going to read a letter my 15 year old daughter wrote. There ARE some curse words in it. None of them are incredibly bad, but they are definitely things a little kid shouldn’t hear… not to mention things MY KID shouldn’t say!
My daughter thought it would be funny/rebellious/cool to post on her Facebook wall just how upset she was and how unfair her life here is; how we work her too hard with chores, never pay her for chores, and just in general make her life difficult.
She chose to share this with the entire world on Facebook and block her parent’s from seeing it. Well, umm… she failed. As of the end of this video, she won’t have to worry anymore about posting inappropriate things on Facebook…
Maybe a few kids can take something away from this… If you’re so disrespectful to your parents and yourself as to post this kind of thing on Facebook, you’re deserving of some tough love. Today, my daughter is getting a dose of tough love.
Now please take a few minutes to allow a jackass to demonstrate how to not discipline your children. YEEHAW!
All that’s missing is a voiceover at the end saying, “I’m Rick Perry and I approve this message.”
(Thanks for the tip, Mark!)
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So your parents decide to use their way of punishing you for something you did and this guy does the same but gets your ridicule for it? He bought the laptop with his money and he’s able to do with it what he likes with his 15 year old daughter who thought it’d be pretty cool to mouth off about doing SIMPLE household chores for the second time.
Agreed.simple house hold chores, as all kids should do. The parents buy the cable, the kindles, the DSI’s, etc. And then to complain about helping around the house? When you’re 15 you go bag groceries after school. For some families they need the extra money, but at the very least you do it for your own money.Then buy you own Xbox and Xbox points. I’ll bet they won’t complain(as much) about what you buy when it’s your own money.
I think this is an awesome way of punishing her. I think you’re focusing too much on the fact that he used a gun to end her relationship with the laptop. He could have thrown it off a building, he could have broken it in half, he could have given it away. Since it his technically his laptop he decided to use it for up close target practice. Love it.
Also, your stupid website has a hell of an account verification procedure.
Yeah fartface, these interwebs sure are complicated
It’s not hard to sign up here… just use you’re head for a minute.
I meant ‘your’. My mother would kill me over that mistake.
Good for him. My father would have done the same type of thing if I had acted like an entitled whiny little brat, and I would have been better off for it later. I think the writer of this article is reacting a bit more than your average well adjusted adult would. Did someone make you do 4 minutes worth of chores too during your teenage prime, princess?
Honestly, I think this will turn out to be a stunt. I do NOT disagree with his methods but he mentions he works in IT. He’s not going to shoot up a laptop he just fixed up the day before as punishment. I figure he pulled all the good parts or it was a dummy old laptop he shot as a stunt to embarrass her. In either case, I do not disagree with the sentiment he was getting at.
Are you guys kidding?
So she’s a little brat, she’s a teenager it’s mostly what they do. They get rebellious and shitty, they vent to make themselves feel better. Reacting like he did was by no means a mature way to handle things.
Now while I’m by no means taking the girl’s side (because both of these people are awful and I don’t care about them) you think there might be a truth somewhere in the middle? Or are we under the opinion that kids lie on the internet to sound like martyr but adults don’t lie to the internet to avoid coming off like assholes? While we’re on it, she wasn’t kidding about the chores thing. Many children are paid an allowance in exchange for doing chores it’s not a new idea.
To say this guy over reacted to his teenager acting like a teenager is insane. Does she do her chores? Get good grades in school? Stay out of trouble (in the greater scheme of things)? Then why are you complaining? A teenager being shitty isn’t the end of the world, it’s a phase they grow out of. How about w be thankful for the fact that she’s not out getting arrested and not give a shit that she’s running at the mouth to her friends.
This isn’t an overreaction at all (a bit over-dramatic, but hey, everyone loves a showman). The whole point of him doing this so publicly is to embarrass her, because he’d told her at LEAST once before not to do this. And it’s the kind of complacency that Savonti is putting forth that causes kids to decline. “Sure, she posted on Facebook calling us horrible parents and saying that we all but abuse her after specifically telling her not to do so or there would be consequences….but at least she’s not doing drugs!” That’s stupid. You have to teach kids that there are consequences to every action. Maybe after this, she’ll think twice about blasting her boss on Facebook and losing a job.
I see NOTHING wrong with his venting and caring enough about his child to ground the crap out of her. he just saved the tax[payers tons of money on welfare and crap from years down the road. this is tough love and i would have shot that damn laptop too.
Daughter writes winy, angry facebook post complaining about the things all teens complain about. Father finds letter, uses a gun to destroy her laptop, puts it on youtube. Lesson learned- If you come across written words you don’t like, use violence to make them go away. Not to mention the BRILLIANT move to destroy her expensive laptop rather than just take it away from her. Way to teach her the meaning of a dollar.
YES THIS IS IDEAL PARENTING.
I don’t see anything wrong with this. I think it’s hilarious and I hope the whiny, bratty, stupid little girl got majorly embarrassed over it. I never got paid for simple household chores-they were just things that needed to be done. When I wanted money I went out and got a job. And I have news for you-having a job didn’t get me out of doing my chores, either. It sounds to me like they’ve been spoiling this little brat and are now paying the consequences for it-maybe it’s not too late for her to wise up and get a clue. The dad was right-that post was not just whiny, it was highly disrespectful and downright rude. I hope the dad sticks by his guns (no pun intended) and does not buy that brat another laptop for the rest of her life.