One of the toughest jobs in the world is being a parent.  Ironically, it’s the one job where you don’t receive a salary & there’s definitely no 401k. You spend countless minutes, hours, days, years providing for your child and trying to raise them in the way you want to see them go. No matter how much hard work that goes into raising a child, ultimately, one can never be sure what type they’re going to end up with.  If you’re lucky, you’ll have a child that is grateful for all of the hard work & lessons you’ve taught them.  You’ll have a child that gets excellent grades in school, not because it makes you happy, but because they know that’s what should be done.  Your child will realize that money doesn’t fall from trees and chores are a way of life when you’re a kid.  They’ll understand the value of a dollar & earning their keep. In a perfect world, you’d have a perfect child like this.

Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world, and there are some pretty shitty children out there.

Case in point, the father pictured above.  Today circulating around the internets is a video of him responding to his daughter’s Facebook rant she posted on her page. She assumed her father would not find out about her rant. Unfortunately for her, her father happens to be an IT professional and while he was updating the software on her laptop, he of course found it.

Apparently this wasn’t the first time he’s found defaming items on his daughter’s Facebook page about her parents. But I guess he wanted to make sure this would be his last time.

After ranting about how spoiled his daughter is and every thing they’ve done for her, the father then decides to put an end to her laptop by pumping several rounds of bullets into it.

*gasp*

You’d think he just killed his own child with the comments people have made on several sites. Every one has pretty much called this father an asshole for making the video & ‘killing’ his daughter’s laptop.  People have seemingly glossed over the fact that this man’s spoiled daughter basically shitted on everything her parents have done for her after posting her ‘ode’ to them on her Facebook page.

Guess what?

Some teenagers are shitty selfish and spoiled brats.

Not all teenagers are assholes because their parents are assholes.  I truly don’t think this father did anything wrong.   Sure, maybe him and his wife quite possibly, could have been enablers and allowed certain behavior in the household, but who knows?  I guess making a child do chores and expecting them to do it for free is too much to ask nowadays?

My son has chores. He pretty much does most of the household chores, that include cleaning the kitchen, living room, vacuuming & making sure his bathroom and bedroom are up to par. Does he complain? Sure he does. Does he receive an allowance? No, he doesn’t.

Welcome to my house. I run this. My house. My rules.

Is my son a perfect child?  Hell no. He’s far from it.  I’ve kirked out before just like this father in the video did. But no, I didn’t have bullets or a laptop. This past summer, his PS3 did meet it’s demise when it came in contact with the sidewalk.  Needless to say, I proved my point that day. From that day out, he hasn’t complained about one chore he’s had to do.

Everyone has different parenting styles and apparently this man’s style is now under scrutiny.   In some ways I feel sorry for him.  Do I feel sorry for his child? No, I truly don’t. I doubt she’ll resort to bashing her parents again on Facebook any time soon.