Simply awesome!

[DotKritic]

Dad uses Facebook to teach daughter a lesson. A 15-year-old puts up a Facebook post bashing her parents for making her work too hard, dad reacts by posting a video response to her grievances on her Facebook page.

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Be sure to watch the whole video AND the ending.

[welsh_girl]

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Lool, hilarious. Good on him.

The getting a job at 15 seems harsh though, you can't even legally get a job here at 15.

[DotKritic]

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Lool, hilarious. Good on him.

The getting a job at 15 seems harsh though, you can even legally get a job here at 15.

Why companies are reluctant to hiring 15 year olds (I believe this is for the U.S. only):

Ages 14 and 15: During the school year, hours are limited to 3 hours a day and 18 hours a week. On days when there's no school and in the summer, working hours increase to 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week. There are limits on when you can work, too - no later than 7 p.m. during the school year and no later than 9 p.m. between June 1 and Labor Day.

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[welsh_girl]

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Why companies are reluctant to hiring 15 year olds (I believe this is for the U.S. only):

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Eep, I said can instead of can't.

That's pretty cool you can earn your own money at that age. Over here you don't get a National Insurance card until you're 16 which you need to legally work, even then, no one likes 16yos and the pay is awful.

[DarknessXoXLight]

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In the US you need to get a work permit from the city to be able to work at 15 and even then it's very unlikely anybody would hire them~

[IAAW]

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That had to be some of the best good ol' fashioned redneck parenting I've seen in quite a while.

*sniff* So beautiful.

[Cold Kitten]

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In the US you need to get a work permit from the city to be able to work at 15 and even then it's very unlikely anybody would hire them~

I'm 15. And have a job. Have had one for over a year. *shrug* Just gotta find the right business.

[sakura080789]

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That had to be some of the best good ol' fashioned redneck parenting I've seen in quite a while.

*sniff* So beautiful.

^^^ this.

ps. i watched this about a half hour before i looked in this thread someone linked me it on Facebook oh the irony

[DossarLX ODI]

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Ok, so
- Paying $130 and spending time to install software, and then shooting up the thing? You have got to be joking
- "You are disrespectful to every adult in your life": AGEISM as justification for this shit? This is basically being like "stay in your place, we're your parents, you suck". I wonder how worried the daughter is now about being a perfect little princess (read: servant) to the world!
- His thing about his past is making him all "my life sucked, so yours will too" about this. And how exactly will being this stupid fix your daughter? Again, instead of being a supportive parent to EXPLAIN things to her, he tries using forced BS.
- Rather than fixing up the relationship, this is trying to coerce the daughter into humiliation. Humiliating your daughter online instead of trying to help her as a supportive parent? GG man, how do you feel about yourself?
- School does take some significant time too, and a lot of other factors can be taken into account - clubs, community service, hobbies. "Get up and get on the bus. that's all your responsibilities" - so actually *gasp* concentrating on school to help get a good future isn't a responsibility?!?!

If you ask me, this is very close to psychological abuse. The "bullet into the laptop" is nothing more than a compulsive act of revenge on the daughter to try making the father feel better. This is an example of how reasoning isn't being used, but instead force and bad parenting. I'm starting to think this video is viral also because it is bad parenting.

This could have simply been solved with a reasonable discussion between the parents and the daughter. But NOPE, looks like the father had to go all internet attention whore and show a lack of empathy for his daughter.

[flipsta_lombax]

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In b4 kid tells the whole world that her life is a living hell with her parents.

He did what's best for her, and from what I am understanding, she does not work, does not appreciate anything her parents do for her, and STILL had the audacity to curse her parents out in Facebook. Regardless of her age and the age allowed to work: if you are dependent on someone else's earnings from work you should at the LEAST respect them. Chores are nothing.. people who make a big deal about them are lazy spoiled ****s.

And how this dad handled it was too civil; I wish he used a jackhammer. Worst case scenario in my mind would probably be a parent in this situation smashing the laptop on the brat. Probably would be the ideal thing if I ever did that to my parents, just sayin'.

[DossarLX ODI]

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Another big problem with the video is that it is being told in the parent's perspective - there is still a lot missing about the daughter.

[flipsta_lombax]

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Another big problem with the video is that it is being told in the parent's perspective - there is still a lot missing about the daughter.

Psychological abuse? Really? I'm pretty sure this doesn't even come close. Coming from what the daughter has written, I think she's ****ing peachy, just living a "very hard" life with doing chores, waiting for a bus and going to school.

I'm sure the FIRST time she did something like this, they most likely just talked about it. But doing it again, I think the parents did a fine job in handling the situation. It's a laptop that she did not own. Sounds like she does not appreciate anything in life. AND they have a helper in the house? Totally sounds like a hard life for her.

A talk would not fix anything. It didn't the first time, so he had to do what had to be done.

[DossarLX ODI]

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You're entitled to your opinion about this, but the way he's talked in the video, it does not sound like he has actually taken the time to understand why she's feeling the way she is, and is instead using what she posted on Facebook as an entire representation of her.

"Sounds like she does not appreciate anything in life" - again, this video is being told in parent's perspective, and there could be a lot of hidden shit we don't know about concerning the daughter. I will agree she does sound a bit spoiled, however.

[Anaru]

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Saw this yesterday night..

Hilarious.

[flipsta_lombax]

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You're entitled to your opinion about this, but the way he's talked in the video, it does not sound like he has actually taken the time to understand why she's feeling the way she is, and is instead using what she posted on Facebook as an entire representation of her.

"Sounds like she does not appreciate anything in life" - again, this video is being told in parent's perspective, and there could be a lot of hidden shit we don't know about concerning the daughter.

If there are, by any means, a reason why she posted this probably because of mistreatment at home, feeling overworked, etc etc., I still have no remorse from what is given to me. It just sounds like an over-exaggeration of what she is asked to do around the house in favor of parental support. But her feel of superiority put her in wrong-doing: humiliation in any terms does not get left alone like it was just a joke.

This is her parents we are talking about here. Lest there be physical or mental abuse that are hidden behind this man's video, the daughter still did something naive and petty.

Parents have done worse than this, even to things less serious of a situation. Coming from me, who was mentally and physically abused when I was young, I do not agree with what the kid has done, and that is disrespecting your parents.