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    To Punish Daughter, Dad Destroys Her Laptop: Tough Love or Too Extreme? (Video)

    By Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine | Parenting – Fri, Feb 10, 2012 12:22 PM EST

    After finding a rude letter from his daughter posted on Facebook, this dad decided to teach her a lesson.After finding a rude letter from his daughter posted on Facebook, this dad decided to teach her a lesson.After spending six hours and $130 fixing and upgrading his 15-year-old daughter's laptop computer, Tommy Jordan was furious when he found a disrespectful, expletive-laced post on her Facebook page called "To My Parents" the very next day.

    "I'm not your damn slave," the rant begins. "If you want coffee, get off your a** and get it yourself."

    She thought she had blocked her mom and dad from being able to read it on Facebook, but she was wrong. So her dad (who works in IT) decided to do something about it.

    "She chose to publicly embarrass her family and herself on Facebook. So I chose to make the punishment equally as embarrassing and equally as public," he said. "I was always taught that what's good for the goose is good for the gander."

    He made a video of himself reading her post and shooting holes in her computer with his handgun -- and then he posted the video on YouTube and Facebook for Hannah and her friends to see when they got home from school. Some viewers say the video shows a good father meting out some tough love. Others say he went way overboard. Watch the video below, and decide for yourself:

    "This is for my daughter, Hannah," the video begins. (Warning: Some of the language in it is NSFW.)  "And, more importantly, for all her friends on Facebook who thought her little rebellious post was cute, and all you parents out there who think your kids don't post bad things on Facebook." 


    Late Thursday night, Jordan posted an update on his Facebook page:

    "Do I regret doing it? No. Do I regret keeping it on Facebook long enough to cause this stir? Yes," he wrote. "However at this time I feel that if I took the post or the video down, I’d just make it appear that we’re running in shame from it, and we’re not."

    He said he and Hannah discussed the incident -- and the video -- after she came home from school and together set the ground rules for her punishment. And then they sat down together at his computer to read some of the thousands of comments that have been posted on Facebook.

    "At first it was upsetting," he wrote. "Then, as we read it became less so, eventually funny to both of us."

    She wasn't impressed with the vitriol, and turned down her dad's offer to shoot her own response video. "

    "For those that wondered, commented, criticized, and just in general wanted to know: My daughter came through it fine," he wrote in another status update. "Yes, she's in trouble, and yes, she's grounded, but that doesn't mean every moment of her life has to be miserable."

    "My Facebook wall will never be the same again," he quipped. "And we’ll be OK as a family and she’ll grow up happy, healthy, and have everything she needs, but not everything she wants. And I absolutely guarantee she’ll never doubt my resolve to follow-through on a consequence again.”

    What you think: tough love, or too extreme?

    Copyright © 2012 Yahoo Inc.




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    • USA Citizan
      USA Citizan  •  Chandler, Arizona  •  1 month 4 days ago
      KUDOS, TO DAD! She will be a better person, for it !!
    • Jimmy G
      Jimmy G  •  1 month 22 days ago
      One spoiled brat hopefully got the point, wellmaybe if she saw it on a friends pc.
    • Caro
      Caro  •  2 months ago
      Too extreme and overboard would have been if he beat her up for it. This is great! Good for him.
    • donchanoit
      donchanoit  •  2 months ago
      GOOD for DAD, finally a parent makes a statement to an offspring
    • john
      john  •  Anchorage, Alaska  •  2 months ago
      That was great! That away dad... You forgot the$1.00 rounds....lol
    • reg
      reg  •  Omaha, Nebraska  •  2 months ago
      I would have done the same thing...!
    • NighmareClaw
      NighmareClaw  •  2 months ago
      He shouldn't have shot the computer, he should have sold it. He spent $130 on repairing the computer, get your dam money back! Now this girl, She should NEVER have said what she did, how ungrateful. I'm not even sorry, she is not very smart at all, her father works in IT, with that profession he CAN see what she posted even if he was blocked. Disrespectful girl, you really need to learn your manners! You should really be more grateful for your laptop upgrade. What you said was the most disrespectful thing I ever heard someone say about their PARENTS! You need to learn to show respect for your elders!
    • Michael
      Michael  •  Fort Myers, Florida  •  2 months ago
      Yes!! That was awesome! It's nice to see that there is still real parenting out there. The majority of these *ussy-footed desperate housewife wannabe mothers and their push over husbands probably would have handled that with sitting down and having a "bonding session to attempt to discover what is really upsetting the daughter"...and that is why chicks get knocked up at 16 these days. I agree with the putting a bullet in the laptop and calling it a day technique much more. Screw the $130, it's an acceptable loss.
    • Harry
      Harry  •  Aspen, Colorado  •  2 months ago
      Good Job Dad I think you were right on the mark!
    • WyntersRose
      WyntersRose  •  3 months ago
      The kids today are given everything... Parents are working and now buy the love of their children. These kids grow up thinking every one should just be given to them... and they are your Occupy Wall Street kind of college students..."Pay My Tuition" "Give me a Job with great wages" Do not make them earn it like we had to. Good For You DAD!!! I would have done the same.
    • Jeanette
      Jeanette  •  Dry Ridge, Kentucky  •  3 months ago
      I cannot blame you one bit ! Kids nowadays have no respect for themselves, let alone anyone else. I am a parent of three grown children, but if put in the same situation, I believe I would have used a shotgun instead of a .45!
      • GodFree
        GodFree 3 months ago
        YOU GO GIRL!
      • Margo
        Margo 3 months ago
        I am the mother of four grown kids. My eldest daughter rants and raves plus stomps her foot at me and I am 69 years old!
        She was born and raised in the early 60's and was spanked just like the others, yet she is the one that disrespects me and has shamed me in my senior years. My husband died at a early age. Wish I had someone like Jordon to set her straight right now!
    • queen
      queen  •  Burlington, Vermont  •  3 months ago
      YAY for dad. It was his money that bought and fixed the laptop, so it was his to do with what he chose. I would imagine she will never post something that rude again lol. Good for him!! It's not like she is a little kid that can not understand what happened lol. I think this is great.
      • Sherry*
        Sherry* 3 months ago
        I agree with you. You would think she would know better with a Dad that has tech knowledge that she would get caught. #$%$ Dad
    • eastern_gent
      eastern_gent  •  Youngstown, Ohio  •  2 months ago
      personally i think the dad was an idot,,,, not daughters fault he lost 130 on fixing computer, it ws he who shot it not her,,, what a waste,,, and besides, if that was the worst thing she di it was alittle extrenme,,,,, o yeah dad,,, what about your smoking that shows the kids a nice habit,, hmmm putting ashes out on the ground like that,,, and tossing cigerette butt away on the ground and ththrowing paper that way too,,,thats littering,,,, whats your punishment sure she needed punished so do you,,,i think posting on her face book is kind of bulling her, we are trying to stop that. JJust think,,,you made a laughing stock of your daughter and made you look bad,,,,
      • LOVING MY GIRL!!
        LOVING MY GIRL!! 1 month 13 days ago
        You Sir are a Candidate for the beginning scence of 300. Obviously you have no values or understanding of how kids today think we owe them a ride down the yellow brick road! Frankly you are an idiot and I appluade this father for his action and wish more parents thought like this. As for his smoking My father would have explained to you "Do as I say, Not as I do!" What does that mean to you ? Well simply I am human and not perfect, so it is in your interest to listen to what I am telling you and do not emmulate. Unfortunately idiots like you can not think on your own!! Your No Daisy Sir!!
    • Kaye
      Kaye  •  Johnson City, Tennessee  •  3 months ago
      we need more parents like this...."thumbs up".....
    • Scottie Boy
      Scottie Boy  •  Carlisle, Pennsylvania  •  3 months ago
      Finally, a parent in this society that is actually parenting! Perhaps his daughter will grow up to be valuable member of society as opposed to a degenerate because she was allowed to do and behave however she dam well pleased! People should be required to obtain a license to reproduce in this country.
      • Scottie Boy
        Scottie Boy 3 months ago
        Also, nice 1911!
      • Caro
        Caro 2 months ago
        Totally agree with you!
    • Anne
      Anne  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  3 months ago
      Most of the people who say what they would have done, don't have a teenager. When I was a teen, way back in the 90's before laptops and facebook, I complained about my folks. But, I did it by talking to my friends. Once this girl posted her rant online she made herself vulnerable to this. If people don't want to get caught with something, don't photograph, video or post it online. Once it's out there, there's no taking it back. You never know what will happen to it!
      She's a brat, but most teens are. But, she's equally stupid for posting her rant online. For that she deserves all the punishment she gets.
      • NeikosGirl
        NeikosGirl 3 months ago
        Agreed!
      • Br. France
        Br. France 3 months ago
        "When I was a teen, way back in the 90's..."

        You do go way back. (sarcasim)
      • quintin
        quintin 3 months ago
        Thats the decade of time-out, please you guys are soft and mommy coddled!!!
    • Pat
      Pat  •  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma  •  3 months ago
      Children need to learn not to crap in their own nest.
    • Juan M
      Juan M  •  3 months ago
      Good job you dont need my approval but good to go
    • Alek
      Alek  •  3 months ago
      This has to be the funniest stuff I have ever read!! He is in the right though; she embarrassed him publicly and so he did the same. My parents already told me that if I act out all crazy in front of my friends, I'll get disciplined in front of them as well. Good parenting, although shooting the computer and posting the video online was kind of out there.
    • Stephen
      Stephen  •  Chattanooga, Tennessee  •  3 months ago
      I agree with Ashley from Atlanta this Dad has my vote for parent of the year!!!!!!!!!
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