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Old Gringo wrote: "IOW, you want to rehabilitate her and give her time off for good behavior?"

Naw............that comes much later.....after she completes the HOME COURSE in "violent-acting-out behavior" which then leads to some type of "violent acting out" criminal action for example: If she gets mad at her teacher at school for giving her too much homework, she might go and throw rocks through the teachers window.........or take a pellet gun and shoot out her car windows.......... (or we could just try to teach her a more socially acceptable form of behavior instead)

Definitely not a democrat,( although I did take a couple of psychology coursesback in the 70's). In My opinion, you don't teach a child to act like an adult by acting like a child. What he did was to REACT to her bad behavior by engaging in bad behavior. Who is supposed to be the adult here? Destroying a perfectly good laptop is DESTRUCTIVE and therefore a negative act. What kind of lesson is that? He just taught her that when someone does you wrong, then you go and take something that they love and destroy it. If he wanted to deprive her of her laptop, why not give to some one more deserving........or sell it on Ebay and give the money to charity? Or, better yet, why not turn it into a positive lesson by taking away the laptop for a period of time - say 6 months - and then requiring her to EARN it back by engaging in GOOD behavior? ...........like performing extra chores without complaining, attaining a certain grade level in school , volunteering to help out at the old folks home, painting the house, etc. See where I am going here? I just think there are better ways to handle this type of situation..........doesn't require a degree in Psychology, but a little common sense goes a long way.

Just a redneck Daddy raisin' his redneck daughter. She throws a temper tantrum and posts bad stuff about Daddy on Facebook, so he throws an adult temper tantrum and shoots her laptop. It could have been handled a lot more positively. Maybe he could have given the laptop to the lady who actually DOES clean their house...........or donated it to someone else who needed it instead of destroying it....... (It was still funny though!)