My 15 year old daughters reaction to "Laptop dad"

[renie408]

202. I actually do agree that kids need well defined boundaries.

But you have to lay that track when they are little and stay on top of it consistently. I think parents get into trouble several ways. I see a lot of parents don't time their discipline well and they don't use discipline which teaches anything or helps their children learn anything. You have to start doing that when they are a year old. If you wait til they are fifteen, maybe you do find yourself shooting up a laptop. But that doesn't make it right, it doesn't mean she is going to learn anything and posting it on Youtube was strictly HIS ego stroking.

Discipline and punishment are two different things. I think he should have handled it differently. Its not the worst thing he could have done, but it really, REALLY wasn't the best way to handle this situation, either. I don't think the fact that he did it disturbs me as much as the number of people who SUPPORT him doing it does. There is a difference between saying, "This was an unfortunate act by a frustrated and angry parent that could have been handled better, but the world isn't coming to an end because of it." And "This is something that will help his daughter be a better person. This behavior falls within the parameters of good parenting!!"