Dad shoots daughters laptop

[Technoid]

Its destruction was symbolic and not intended to be a 'practical' solution.

I think we're encountering a culture clash thing here.

nahh, we're up to the sad fact of a daddy not being able to raise his child to respect him enough that he has to resort to physical destruction as corrective punishment...

The "punishment" is way way out of proportions and is it really a healthy situation where only the implied threat of violence keeps kids in line?

[Technoid]

It's worked for Milena, why stop now?

ROFL

[Dr Mordrid]

Its destruction was symbolic and not intended to be a 'practical' solution.

I think we're encountering a culture clash thing here.

[cjolley]

They had tried locking her out before and it didn't work.

If he is a "computer professional" how could this possibly not work?
Password the bios.
Set passwords that are immune to rainbow tables.
Install BlackBox and let her know it's on.
Lock her out of her facebook account if necessary.
Sheesh, there are mountains of options.

Why not just take the thing away and give it to some poor kid?
The reason is that he isn't much more mature than she is.

[Jammrock]

yup it was the statement "I am an idiot that solves things by shooting stuff"

It's worked for Milena, why stop now?

[Technoid]

yup it was the statement "I am an idiot that solves things by shooting stuff"

[Dr Mordrid]

Coddle

verb

Childrearing: to raise a child in an over-indulgent or over-protective manner. To pamper.

Cooking: to cook in water heated to just below the boiling point.

They had tried locking her out before and it didn't work. Shooting the laptop was a statement more than just another form of denial.

[Evildead666]

What the hell is 'coddling' ? Cuddling and Nuturing, I get, but coddling ?
If it really is a word (too lazy and too many tabs open to do a search) its the first time i've heard it used.

As to the video, I would have locked her out of her account on the laptop, and let her have it back.
She could use it again when she'd either cracked the system to get/change the password of her account back to what it was, or I had decided that it was long enough and give her the new password.

[Dr Mordrid]

WRT single parent - no. At one point in the video he says her mom asked him to put a bullet in it for her too, and there is a step-mom, so this was a team call.

[cjolley]

Once it's gotten to that point he's already failed.
Too much coddling when she was a cute little kitten and now he's mad that she knocks vases off the mantle now that she's a teen.
Is he a single dad? That may explain a lot about everyone in the family's behavior.
And he needs to work as a High School teacher for a year or two. That would cure him of worrying about what a 15 year old thinks of him. She probably had the opposite feeling ten minutes after her post and then something worse ten minutes after that.
Also, it's pretty easy to see who she learned to have a chip on her shoulder from.

My advice:
1, No problem, I will pay you for chores. but you have to buy your own stuff.
2, Here is a diary. If you need to blow off steam do it in here.

PS I'd be interested to know if the only conversations they have involve discipline.

[Dr Mordrid]

Mom & Dad aren't there to coddle and be a kids 24/7/365 buddy. When it comes time to lower the boom for bad behavior then the gloves have to come off, and if that means destroying a favored toy/device that's been used repeatedly in an offensive manner so be it. How this is done is a matter of style and his, being a former Marine, was with his .45 pistol. I give him 9/10 on style points only because I'd have used a 12 gauge shotgun.

[cjolley]

I agree with cjolley here...

Odd. For once, my post wasn't intended to express an opinion.
Just a wry comment on the comments.
I've only seen the vid at work without sound.

[Dr Mordrid]

Shows the difference in cultures - around here he's a freakin' hero and the opposite view is definitely in the minority regardless of politics. Note the cops opinion too.

[VJ]

@Doc:
1. I don't doubt the shooting was real, but the whole story behind it...
2. There is almost no leveling up from this one; and this was just about her complaining about chores. What if it is something more serious (e.g. she takes the car without permission?).

I agree with cjolley here...

[Jammrock]

I prefer crowbars, personally.