{"id":1172,"date":"2012-02-11T00:42:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T04:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2012-02-11T00:42:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T04:42:42","slug":"facebook-parenting-is-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Parenting&#8230; is sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kl1ujzRidmU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ugh, this just makes me sort of sick.  I obviously am in no place to judge the whole situation, but I can judge the side of it shown in the video.  If your child treats you with disrespect and breaks your heart (or at least embarrasses you publicly), you do not respond in kind.  That is irresponsible, immature, and objectively morally wrong.  Seeing people applaud the man fills me with sadness.  Why would you ever applaud someone hurting someone else?  Even if this punishment was just, it would be a tragedy for it to be needed.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litefm.com\/cc-common\/mainheadlines3.html?feed=421220&#038;article=9744152\">posts made later by this man<\/a>, everything is OK, the teen is not scarred for life, the computer wasn&#8217;t that important, etc.  That&#8217;s good, but it doesn&#8217;t excuse the objectively bad parenting, and him claiming &#8220;because that&#8217;s the way I was raised&#8221; as justification seems to imply baseless judgment.  Do you think you were raised perfectly?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying that I think parents can be perfect all the time, but they do have the higher position in the relationship, and they <em>should<\/em> at least try to use that position to admit their imperfections, ask for forgiveness when necessary, love unconditionally, guide with behavior, and keep themselves from descending into petty shouting matches or games of revenge.  Easier said than done, of course, but they should at least agree that that is the standard they should hold themselves to.  If this father doesn&#8217;t realize what he did was wrong, what will the child learn?  How will the vicious cycle break?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s Inigo Montoya to sing you a song&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4a841zBsszQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugh, this just makes me sort of sick. I obviously am in no place to judge the whole situation, but I can judge the side of it shown in the video. If your child treats you with disrespect and breaks your heart (or at least embarrasses you publicly), you do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[53,101],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-iU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}