He couldn’t just put it in the attic until his grades improved?
That’s my thought. My position is that everything of the child’s is either on loan from the parent or it can only be used conditionally. The kid could have bought it with his own money, but he can only use it on my say so as long as it is in my house.
I would have locked it away until he earned the right to use it.
Exactly.
No, the message sent was just how far the father was willing to go to put his son on the right path. The message was also that elimination of an x-box, or many other of our silly, modern amusements, are a small price to pay to see to it that the son had the proper discipline and priorities in his life.
That son will never forget that object lesson. Good chance he would have forgotten it had the x-box been temporarily confiscated. This guy is a very good father.
Exactly.
Now he’s taken away a possible reward for the future.
This YouTube, FB,Twitter culture is breeding a bunch of people who want to keep outdoing each other to get the highest number of “hits” on their video.
I refuse to click on it.