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Spartan4ever said...
Can't say I disagree with him. Some kids just believe they are entitled to things and if their parents don't provide them everything they want they pull crap similar to what this daughter did.
I too have a teenage daughter who is going to graduate this May. She's a great kid, well liked, had plenty of friends, solid student and has been taking college classes the last two years so by they time she heads off to college next fall she will be entering as a second semester sophomore, but she at times is very trying to both her mother and I. She registered her complaints about the rules that we have imposed for her and our other two children. She doesn't agree with them and told me that once she turns eighteen she no longer has to abide by them because she will be an adult. I told her that was fine by me, and then I asked her where she was going to live, because she wasn't staying here. The look of absolute terror crossed her face and she hasn't said more than a couple words to me since we had this altercation about a week ago.
As I told her, if she wants to be treated like an adult she will have to face the reality of being an adult. Pay for your own food, accomodations, car, etc., because that is what an adult has to do. And for all of you who think I am an ogre, I purchased a third vehicle last year, a Ford Focus in anticipation of my oldest going off to school. The vehicle was going to be hers to use while she was away at school. She has since refused to learn to drive the vehicle because it's a manual and not an automatic transmission, and doesn't want the vehicle. She instead has been working on her mother to allow her to take our new Taurus when she heads off to college. Already told the wife and the daughter that wasn't going to happen.
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Blanco said...
Well you may agree with him on principle but at least your methods are sane. The things you describe in terms of your conversations and rules are firm but they way in which you are stating them and/or enforcing them make sense. Using a gun to destroy the computer just to make the point and then, even worse, making that public is downright twisted. Guy could have easily witheld computer privileges for however long to make his point without whipping out his firearm and broadcasting the whole event.
I am all for having rules and sticking by them, including ones that might make things tough for a teenager who needs to learn the responsibilities of being an adult. But public shaming and dramatic shit like this is unduly harsh. Hey, maybe the kid will brush it off and it is not a biggie. But you never know and if once she moves out and moves on she spends a lot of energy doing all she can to avoid this assh**e then I don't think anyone will be shocked.
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LogicalBuck said...
Dad says his daughter is 15 going on 16, and that when he was her age he had already moved out of the house, lived on his own, went to college while in highschool, worked two jobs and was a volunteer fireman (he doesn't say whether that was one of his two jobs).
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that dad is full of it on that claim.
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I'm a pretty tough Dad at times, but this guy just too far out there, period. I understand his frustration, but it's a 15 year old child. Pretty over the top harsh if you ask me.
Regular bullets would have done the trick, no sense wasting the child's money on hollow points.
This post was edited by Big Doug on 2/10/2012 at 8:49 AM
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