Posted on 02/11/2012 8:48:22 AM PST by DouglasKC
She could also go to CPS and tell them her father shot her laptop and she’s afraid to be around him. Guess what will happen?
You must have missed the part where this was a response to the daughter trash talking the parents before "the whole 'village'." If you were aware of this you might also know that one of her comments was that she "can't wait until they are too old to wipe their own butts."
The daughter chose the venue. Dad just rewrote her script.
Nope..another post:
Attention Media Outlets: While we appreciate the interest you're all putting forth to get in touch with us regarding the video, we're not going to go on your talk show, not going to call in to your radio show, and not going to be in your TV mini-series.
Some of you think I made an acceptable parenting decision and others think I didn't. However, I can't think of any way myself or my daughter can ...respond to a media outlet that won't be twisted out of context. The Dallas news TV news already showed that in their brief 5 minute interview with the psychologist.
Additionally, there's absolutely NO way I'm going to send my child the message that it's OK to gain from something like this. It would send her a message that it's OK to profit at the expense of someone else's embarrassment or misfortune and that's now how I was raised, nor how she has been raised.
So I say thank you from all of us. If we have anything to say, we'll say it here on Facebook, and we'll say it publicly, but we won't say it to a microphone or a camera. There are too many other REAL issues out there that could use this attention you're giving us. My daughter isn't hurt, emotionally scarred, or otherwise damaged, but that kind of publicity has never seemed to be to have a positive effect on any child or family.
If you're a news outlet that wants to ask us a question, feel free to so via email. I'm sure by now my email address is easy enough to find. It might take me awhile to get to a response because I'd have to sort through the "Die you bastard" emails to find it, but we will respond if its something that we feel merits it. Otherwise, sorry... no interviews, no talk shows, no call-ins.
If we respond to anything, it will be on here, and it will be in a way that our words can't be misconstrued or edited for appeal to specific audience or shock value.
Now, I'm going to try to get to work for the day. Best of luck to all of you out there... and PLEASE give my phone a break.
I think it’s quite clear that this man loves his daughter. As a father of two teenagers, I completely appreciate his perspective and applaud his approach.
A lot of people already called cps and the cops...the showed up and guess what happened...post 22.
Did you read the article? I didn't think so.
LOL!!
The father is a jerk. He should have taken the laptop and sold it if he didn’t want her to have it.
Hope he doesn’t shoot the girl the next time he has a problem with her. He doesn’t sound stable regardless of what the cops or CPS think.
Hope he doesn’t shoot the girl the next time he has a problem with her. He doesn’t sound stable regardless of what the cops or CPS think.
I'm not sure how your evaluation is better than the CPS and the cops who actually went there and interviewed both him and the daughter privately. And spent hours doing it as well as essentially searching through his home.
All I can say is good luck to them both. They sound like they deserve each other.
He forgot to mention what happens next...ill-prepared kids who think it’s a cool deal to get $175,000 “FREE MONEY” from the government to “major” in Womyn’s Studies with a minor in Lesbian Performance Art, then get steamed when they can’t find an entry level job that does not pay the $150K/year which they think they deserve because they’re just so SPECIAL and GIFTED...oy vay......
See post 22
>>By destroying a valuable laptop. Could have achieved the same lesson by contributing it to a school or charity. <<
Bull. It’s his. The value of the lesson this taught, not only his daughter but kids around the country is much more than the bucks spent on this computer.
WELL SAID!!!
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Posting without reading the article, let alone the thread, has a long tradition here.
This is often *NOT* A Good Thing, as we are seeing here.
I think her lack of respect also set him off. She not only disrespected her parents, she indirectly disrespected elderly people in a pretty graphic way and she also disrespected the woman who does house cleaning for them. He seemed pretty angry at the way the daughter referred to “Linda”.
Yeah, I should have read the article, not that it would have changed my mind. Well, now they both have their 15 minutes of fame. Good for them.
Get real and quit whining like some “can’t we all just get along” lib.
There were safer ways to destroy the laptop, than 45ing it in that setting, but when dealing with bonehead kids, you sometimes have to get extra dramatic to get the point across.
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