Dad Forces Son to Smash PS4 With Rock Due to Bad Grades - Sensationalist Headlines

https://gamerant.com/dad-forces-son-to-break-his-ps4/ Here’s a video of it: https://youtu.be/KZnzRhtfSAY

Fake or not this guy is a piece of father for doing this and more so for recording it.

I mean, kids gotta learn that it's just a thing. Hopefully it gives him a bit of perspective. Not like one day he can't just get another console once he's gained a sense of responsibility

Why?

If you're going to punish your kids go ahead do what you gotta do, but recording it and uploading for everyone to see seems like going to far.

Take it away or something, destroying it will make him resent you more so (on top of publicly shaming via video going viral) since iit can't be brought back.

Recording this shit for the internet to publicly shame the kid is just stupid dude. Punish your kids, do what you have to do, but what good does it do to publicly shame the kid about it?

The kid has bad grades and got in trouble for stealing 3 years before this video. Something tells me that the video games might have less of an influence than the shitty parenting. Probably should start by not spotlighting yourself for punishing your kid by making him destroy things, considering this will be the second console that's been smashed for his behavior.

Fair enough on the general concept of the thing but it would've been better to just sell the damn thing and recording it is scummy. I hate seeing perfectly good electronics wasted.

Why would you ruin a perfectly good machine when you can also just take it away from the kid for a while? Destroying would only really scare and upset a kid, I doubt it'd teach him responsibility. Aren't there better ways to get your kid to do better at school without destroying his things?

Punishing kids in general is a symptom of dysfunctional parenting. 99.99% of all problems (yes this is a random number) can and should be solved through other methods. Psychologically, punishment doesn't even teach behavior avoidance, only avoiding behavior when there's the threat of punishment. It also makes learning occur from a more negative overall perspective, rather than growth, it encourages fear.

I mean exploiting your kid to get internet views is a shitty parenting move, that's reason enough this was dumb. Also why destroy it when there's options such as: Confiscating it until the kid improves, giving him a goal to work to, and learning that achieving a goal has a reward, a good lesson. Follow up that rewards for achieving goals are going to vary, as to not make the kid think every time he'll get expensive shit. Donate it to somewhere that could have gotten use out of it if he needed it out of the house. There's no reason to destroy it in a fit of caveman rage that your kid isn't getting good grades, shows the kid this is how you deal with disappointment from your kids. Sell it, put the money towards something. Either for the kid's future or yourself. If the kid had to destroy it to somehow learn the lesson, no reason for the father to film it and put it up on youtube for internet fame. There's really no other reason it was posted online that I can think of. Now the kid is gonna be living in fear that if he fucks up, he will have to destroy something he loves. Fear is not a parenting tool.

Son should force father to break something of his own for bad parenting

This shit Daddy o Five got busted doin'. We should not be celebrating that crap again.

Should we talk to the kid and learn more about what his problems are? Nah, let's destroy his trust, that's a better idea! What a colossal piece of shit dad.

The fact that he made him destroy his Playstation is already shitty in of itself. The fact he went out of his way to record it and upload it on Youtube is just straight up scummy. Dude could have just kept his kid's Playstation in locked storage and/or helped him with his school work. Instead, he felt the need to be a shitty hardass parent under the guise of ~~tough love~~.

"Fear is not a parenting tool" that is the bottom line to what this is. Fear. And Vincent is right. My mom use to tell me "I'm going tell your Father when he gets home" when I was little and did wrong. My father use to beat the shit outta my mom, so as child, I feared he'd the same to me. Fear is never the way to teach.

I mean all he had to do was take it away until he got better grades, this kind of physiological trauma fucks kids up. On top of that, he's gonna be made fun of in school for this now, great job shit dad.

Next day: kid scratches dad's car and throws rocks on it

How the fuck can people get away with being this oppressive to gamers in 2019.

Hey look, shitty parenting. Why do parents do this shit? Upload their child's misery to the internet? I mean, I know why they do it. They legitimately want to appear cool and in control. It has nothing to do with actually punishing the child, no matter how many times they say it has to do with pubicly shaming them.

Haha I went viral and all I had to do was publicly shame my children!

Taking it away won't work. THey'll turn the house upside down, find it, and reclaim it.

Public shaming is definitely a bit much. Taking the system away for bad grades totally reasonable though. He wants it back he can buy his own when he's responsible enough to do so.

Someone needs to get that kid away from his father and into a family that loves him. This is unacceptable and instead of seeing a child learning a lesson I only see a father abusing his son. This isn't how you raise a child, this is how you mentally scar one.

if your kid has grown up to do this shit, the problem isnt with your kid, and you're not going to fix that problem by breaking expensive equipment you yourself paid for.

Taking the system away =/= fucking destroying it because being ~tough~ is cool

This is emotional child abuse. Sure it's a step above straight slapping your kid but that stuff will still fuck him up in the long term. If you want to punish him, you take it the fuck away until he's earned it back.

this sounds like something from a textbook rather than an individual's experience.

It's a fact based on loads of data on multiple levels of psychology.