Overall, I have to say he's a great parent. He's setting boundaries and enforcing them and teaching his daughter how important respect is. He's also trying to teach her the value of hard work and how important it is that a person take care of themselves and be responsible.
If this or something like it happened to me as a teenager, I would have been ****ing PISSED. I would have raged so hard. But you know, it's not the parents job to allow a kid their every whim. It's to teach them right from wrong and to be a good, responsible person. If I did something wrong, then something should be done to make sure I understand that and teach me not to do that anymore.
Most of you are saying things like "well teenagers just misbehave, that's what they do, don't get so riled up about it." The thing is, they will continue to misbehave. Until you do something that will make them stop. The dad in that video really pulled that off spectacularly. Do you think she won't appreciate it if she ever get's a laptop again? She won't take all the little toys kids get these days for granted anymore, that's for sure.
There's an argument to be made that he shouldn't have posted it online for everyone to see. That it humiliated the girl in ways she won't recover from. But I think it's clear from the video itself and his subsequent posts that he that he wasn't trying to get internet stardom or anything. He just wanted to get the message through to his daughter about what she did wrong and why she was being punished, and he thought it'd be good for her friends to get that message too. It seems like the girl isn't just socially mortified over it either.
All in all, I think that guy is a great parent and that girl is lucky to have a dad that takes his role seriously. I don't think anyone can dispute that this is a guy that wants the best for his daughter, even if that means punishing her in the short term. If you think that this was just some insecure maniac that got hurt by some mean words and decided to destroy everything this girl holds dear, then I don't think you really got the message of the video. Though I guess maybe the gun helped with that interpretation.
There's my thoughts on the subject.
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