My 15 year old daughters reaction to "Laptop dad"

[riderinthestorm]

101. My 15 year old watched it last night with me. Her reaction was very similar.

Right now we're in a crisis with her, so I had no idea what to expect. I've taken some of her things, and destroyed them. She's also had (at one time) all of her electronics taken away, and only now has some of them back. She also thinks she works too hard (well, she really DOES work hard as a farm kid). She hates us (me) etc. etc.

So I was ready for any reaction.

Honestly, she didn't even blink when the dad destroyed the computer. Also agreed that the teen daughter deserved the punishment since she'd transgressed twice - "her dad said he was going to do it, she challenged that. You pay the price. The dad would have looked bad if he DIDN'T follow up on what he said he'd do". She too thought the girl was being a brat about the punishment. She brought it up herself that she thought the girl was rude to call the neighbor a cleaning lady, she instinctively knew that was demeaning, and objected to that (we have Merry Maids, and we have barn staff so she knows how I feel about respecting help. She also knows that if she does anything to screw with them it will be HER doing that work so there's that).

My 15 year old also has a 24 year old sister, not that it matters, just giving some perspective.

Thanks for the post.