I can not imagine how hard it was on him to keep his cool... and if you go to the comments of the video or the facebook post there are numerous people going on about how immature he is being, and how he is a danger, that he will turn his "shiny gun" on his family and someone needs to call CPS. He should have put two clips through it and then sold it on ebay to recoup some of the money he wasted on software.
I'm not sure there is anything more difficult than being a Dad and trying to raise an early teen-aged daughter these days. Boys are easier. Girls are just not rational, and a rebellious one ... it's like trying to tie a fishing lure with vaseline all over your fingers.
Regardless if this is your parenting style or not, I bet it works. As said before, this isn't the first time and having seen my sister go though worse rebellion than this, it has nothing to do with rationality or how the parants handle it. She needed a direct effect to the cause to understand. Selling it on eBay is another way, but not as instant. They clearly have money so that was not an issue here. Sending a message was the point.
Though I've never had to spank my daughter she's always just been a pretty great kid, maybe a little spoiled but she's been an honor student all her life and has never really tested us because she knows I don't make idle threats. I've got friends who sometimes I've wondered about their parenting skills. They are always having trouble with their kids and usually resort to some crazy form of punishment such as this. While I doubt this will help the dad in anyway except to push his daughter farther away. I did find it amusing, guess that's just the twisted side of my humor.
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