Laptop-shooting Dad

[Hosakawa Tito]

Laptop-shooting Dad. Hehehe, my Dad wouldn't have wasted the bullets when a nice piece of hickory would've done the job. Bonus: He's from North Carolina!

[Vuk]

I see nothing wrong with what he did. Shooting it may not have been the best idea, since that makes people freak out, but it was not the end of the world.

[rajpoot]

Read about this day before yesterday in the paper.
What he did was certainly extreme. Talking with his daughter first would've probably been better, and solved things in a more amicable manner.

But then, to look at it from his POV, his daughter crossed limits when she put that letter on he Facebook page, making her family issues public. The fact that she's complaining about her parents to strangers online is the height of insolence.

[Hosakawa Tito]

So what have we learned, gentle readers? Well, numero uno, there's no such thing as privacy on the interweb. Don't post anything you wouldn't want on the front page of the New York Times. Numba two, some teens are spoiled and like to push the envelope. Nothing new there, completely normal. Dad's reaction, creative use of social media, though a bit too public for my tastes, but I can relate. Limits tested, limits found, parenting mission in the new age accomplished.


The North Carolina reference was for Lem in dis thread. Karma baby!