Dad tries unique punishment for vandalizing son

[poindexter]

http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_11249330

Kid vandalized his high school. Dad makes him wear the above sign and walk the streets for five hours (in addition to community service).

Do you like the punishment? Dislike? Have at it. I especially like hearing the parenting viewpoints from those who have no kids.

 

[txsportsscribe]

good for dad

 

[hondo]

I will buy that father a drink. Perhaps several drinks. Father of the year, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Notepad]

Why isn't his old man at work?

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

I thought the dad was going to get the son a teacher who would sleep with him.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

.. But, but, what about the kid's self-esteem?

Seriously, good for dad. And I think the court system should do it more often for crimes of that nature. One reason the Puritans had the stocks was so that the criminal could be humiliated (as well as have food thrown at him, which qualified as entertainment in the Puritan world).

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

I thought the dad was going to get the son a teacher who would sleep with him.

Not one of the pretty ones either.

 

[cranberry]

Good for the dad if he thought that was the best way to get through to his kid. Humiliation, in general, however, is not a productive way to redress bad behavior, criminal or not, young or old.

 

[pseudo]

Why isn't his old man at work?

Baltimore Sr., who works in the engineering department of DirecTV, moved to California a few years ago from Washington, D.C., where he worked for CNN and Fox News. He has a three-day assignment to do video for Fox News for the presidential inauguration in January.

Guessing he thought this was important enough to make time for.

 

[beanpole]

Personally, I don't think that anyone should vandalize their children.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Mission accomplished!

According to his dad, the 10th-grader was trying to get attention when he painted graffiti of a fictitious gang on school property.

 

[Ashy Larry]

Why isn't his old man at work?

Baltimore Sr., who works in the engineering department of DirecTV, moved to California a few years ago from Washington, D.C., where he worked for CNN and Fox News. He has a three-day assignment to do video for Fox News for the presidential inauguration in January.

Guessing he thought this was important enough to make time for.

He works for FOX news? Well that changes everything....now I think he's an asshole.

Seriously, good for this guy.....but, I'm sure his original plan was to embarrass his son by having a few hundred people to see him carrying the sign, now millions know about it.

 

[hondo]

Personally, I don't think that anyone should vandalize their children.

Yeah. God forbid we raise them right.

 

[JakeandElwood]

Personally, I don't think that anyone should vandalize their children.

Yeah. God forbid we raise them right.

I'm pretty sure he was just poking a little fun at the thread title. ....

As for the punishment, I like it. It gets a message across.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_11249330

Kid vandalized his high school. Dad makes him wear the above sign and walk the streets for five hours (in addition to community service).

Do you like the punishment? Dislike? Have at it. I especially like hearing the parenting viewpoints from those who have no kids.

Then here's the viewpoint of this guy with no kids: Dad of the year.

 

[KG]

I have no children yet and I love what this dad made his son do. The kid is a wannabe gang member (spray painting fictitious gang stuff). Let the little punk get out there and be humiliated. There's nothing wrong with that. If an adult does something really stupid like that, they're taking a chance of being plastered on the news, so let the kid see what he has in store for him. I hope he learns his lesson from this. And it seems like he has a dad with a good head on his shoulders, so maybe he can help prevent his son from making it into a real gang.

 

[Ace]

Sounds like a dad with his heart in the right place. I am not sure whether this punishment will have a positive or negative effect, though.

Wonder what a child/family psychologist would say.

 

[Upper Tupper]

What's good enough for Nathaniel Hawthorne, is good enough for me.

 

[Grimace]

****ing stupid.

Self-serving bull****.

But, hey, Dad, you're such a bad ass!

 

[Lester Bangs]

****ing stupid.

Self-serving bull****.

But, hey, Dad, you're such a bad ass!

I'd agree if this was his first attempt to get through to his little studio gangsta of a son, but if this was, say, attempt No. 100 to make this kid understand, he has my admiration. At least he's trying, which is more than can be said for far too many parents.