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Straightshooter2
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I've noticed that there are short clips of this online where him reading the entire blast she put online is cut out. Apparently they have a woman who comes in to clean occasionally (how often I don't know) but who does it on a barter basis because she's having a hard time and he said "Do not ever again refer to her as the cleaning lady." Also the daughter had just spent 3 months grounded (no computer, etc.) for a similar rant on Facebook. This rant she tried to hide from her parents even as dad was spending money and time on her to upgrade her software. But a lot of the blame for things like that belong on us as parents because we want our kids to have what we didn't. I know a teen who just could not live without a new smart phone. Why? Her smart phone was sixth months old and some of her friends had newer phones so hers was out of date. Her parents bought her the new one. Children now days want all the new electronics a child just has to have so they can survive by not coming out of their rooms except for school and meals. I was at the library the other day and their computers were down. A teen wailed to her mom,"How am I going to research my homework." Her mom pointed around the library, looked at the teen and said, "They are called books. Look it up!" This apparent brat from the video doesn't need that shot up computer to do homework, just a visit to the library. She might actually learn something in the process if she reads a book instead of Wikipedia.
People mention his humiliating her by posting this on YouTube but what about her posting her rant on Facebook. You know some of her friends shared that so she was humiliating her parents in public also.
When he was still in school, the first time my son put a BIG dent in my car on a pole, I told him to be more careful. The second time when he messed up the front end by running off the road I made him pay for it out of pocket. The third accident in six months when he hit another car, I cut his DL up right in front of him. We let him get it back a month later but a month of riding his bike to his girlfriends house at age 17 and using her car taught him a big lesson. He's not had another wreck in over 20 years.
Like I said, since this was the kids second offense for basically the same thing, I would have used a shotgun on the laptop, cut off her phone and, if she had one, confiscated the iPod. Then I would give her a library card and, IF I could find one, a transistor radio with one earplug. Teens are a lot like an old mule. Sometimes you just have to do a little extra to get their attention!
CW
"When I was a child, I was appalled at my parents ignorance. When I became a man, I was amazed at how much they had learned." - Mark Twain
People mention his humiliating her by posting this on YouTube but what about her posting her rant on Facebook. You know some of her friends shared that so she was humiliating her parents in public also.
When he was still in school, the first time my son put a BIG dent in my car on a pole, I told him to be more careful. The second time when he messed up the front end by running off the road I made him pay for it out of pocket. The third accident in six months when he hit another car, I cut his DL up right in front of him. We let him get it back a month later but a month of riding his bike to his girlfriends house at age 17 and using her car taught him a big lesson. He's not had another wreck in over 20 years.
Like I said, since this was the kids second offense for basically the same thing, I would have used a shotgun on the laptop, cut off her phone and, if she had one, confiscated the iPod. Then I would give her a library card and, IF I could find one, a transistor radio with one earplug. Teens are a lot like an old mule. Sometimes you just have to do a little extra to get their attention!
CW
"When I was a child, I was appalled at my parents ignorance. When I became a man, I was amazed at how much they had learned." - Mark Twain
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