Yes! I saw that over the weekend. When my daughter was about 12, she was OBSESSED with a social site called Xenga (sp?) and this thing called Neopets (kind of a precurser to Farmville?) After countless pleads with her day after day from her mother & me to log off and do homework, chores, etc... I snapped! I took a pair of scissors and cut the cord to the mouse! My daughter screamed, my wife yelled and I laughed. After 2 nights on the couch I had to apologize. I admit it - I snapped!

You're a regular Sicilian-American cowboy, Mark .

Yippee-Kie-Yay, Mi Amici!!!

The bottom line with this "cell phone-social network-text-twitter" generation is the intrusive, rude and immediate distribution of often hateful & negative information. It is so disheartening to be on a nice long weekend or getaway having the time of your life and in an instant your holiday is ruined because someone had to text your kids that the "social event of the year" is going on back home and they were not invited. Drama, dilemmas and melt downs... before you know it, parents are shooting up laptops!

Then I had to duck from a pint of chicken and broccoli hurling at me.

I took a pair of scissors and cut the cord to the mouse! My daughter screamed, my wife yelled and I laughed. After 2 nights on the couch I had to apologize. I admit it - I snapped!

I caught that on Reddit. So awesome! Good on him, his daughter sounds like a total ingrate.



THIS is awesome. Sicilian Dad is suitably Sicilian.

As a soon to be Dad, its almost funny to think that my daughter will never know any other way but social networking and instant communication. As prevelant as it is now, I can only wonder at how entrenched it will be by the time she's of age to use it.

That spoiled little brat girl needed to be taught a lesson. Her father was nice enough to buy her a laptop and she does that. I have broke my sons PS3 for all the neighbors to see when my son got a bad report card.

These kids are such thugs nowadays.

It is indeed so entrenched now, that I shudder to think of it even being possible to be more controlling of our lives in the future. But, sadly, I'm sure this, too, will come to pass.

I teach part-time at a local college. Recently, I told my class that I do not own a cell phone, palm-whatzis i-thisorthat or any of those things. One girl looked at me, her eyes popping out of her head, and said, "But...how do you communicate??"

I told her I still have a land line, my trusty PC still runs quite well (even if it is a vintage 1999 antique ComputerSaurus), and that if people really need to contact me, they know where to find me. Smoke signals are also an option, I added. I'm not sure she got the joke.

Perhaps I'm a fossil who doesn't really know what he's missing, but I don't consider my life incomplete without all these little high-tech gadgets and "social networking."

Signor V.

Don't take this the wrong way, but from what I'm reading you just sound like your cheap.

I think this is it right here. It hurts and it's not something your child is doing to hurt you, but it does make us feel second best. Or third.. My daughter is only 8, so she's next to us all the time and that's where she wants to be. But my son, who is 14, I know he doesn't want to be "dragged" much anymore with us for a night out or whatever. It gets harder and harder to hold onto them, and today it's harder than ever.

At least this guy on the vid made his point in a pretty calm manner. One thing that would make me lose it more than anything is what his daughter did to him and their family. Openly disgracing and talking bad about your family on a public network like facebook, I would not be able to forgive for a long long time. Family issues belong in the house within the family, not for all the world to view. But I'll have to cross that bridge when I get to it. She was kinda using her facebook post as a "Dear Diary" to vent and get her feelings out. Everybody needs to vent, but you just can't be putting stuff like this out there in public.

I have little to no patience, though. I've broken a lot of stuff. Including when I couldn't finish a sentence without my husband's cell phone ringing. I pulled it out of the charger finally, threw it on the floor and smashed it with the heel of my boot. Then I had to duck from a pint of chicken and broccoli hurling at me.

Wait a minute, I just read the post about breaking the PS3 over a report card. In front of all the neigbours. Am I the only one that thinks that totally different? That's not cool, that's kinda fucked up.

To quote the GBB mascot Frosty...just sayen.

Don't take this the wrong way, but from what I'm reading you just sound like your cheap.

That spoiled little brat girl needed to be taught a lesson. Her father was nice enough to buy her a laptop and she does that. I have broke my sons PS3 for all the neighbors to see when my son got a bad report card.

Don't take this the wrong way, but from what I'm reading you just sound like your cheap.

That wasn't a very nice thing to say. You owe Sr. Vitelli an apology.

That wasn't a very nice thing to say. You owe Sr. Vitelli an apology.

I don't know, Mark. While I'm sometimes guilty, using electronic devices at a dinner table or restaurant with company is just plain rude. If I had kids, the table would be a no-device zone.

At the same time, I wouldn't destroy the damn thing if I paid for it! lol