Reply #40: There's your key right there [View All]

IMO.

I haven't read the article and don't intend to. But if there were "more than enough warnings," it just goes to show the piss-poor discipline exercised around that household prior to this.

"More than enough warnings" prior to this = he's a rotten father, just as I said, and is now taking out his OWN frustrations inappropriately on his kids. All or nothing, over the top, I'm going to get you and make you really sorry discipline. That's NOT helpful and in fact it's not discpline, it's what I said: revenge.

And making sure he gets listened to and obeyed for just "one day" is yet another symptom of the problem, and NOT a viable solution IMO. Those kids don't disrespect and disobey him for no reason at all, ya know. They've been carefully (if inadvertently) taught to do precisely that for 11, 13 and so forth years now.