Parenting a teenager can be quite a task – it’s a vulnerable and impressionable age that’s somewhere in the middle of being a child and growing up. At this age, getting your point across in a way that won’t make them run for the hills can be quite a task.
One such incident came to light on Reddit. One father learned that his daughter was ʙᴜʟʟʏɪɴɢ a girl who had cancer at school. Things went far and she even pulled the girl’s wig off.
This made the father angry so he decided to take matters in his own hands and punished his daughter in a way that caused a stir, as well as mixed emotions, on the Internet. Since many slammed him for how he dealt with his ʙᴜʟʟʏ daughter, the father later deleted the post.
“My ex-wife and I have a 16-year-old daughter together of which I have full custody (she has moved on with her new family)… My daughter recently got in trouble at school for making fun of a student that lost her hair from cancer treatment. Including pulling off her wig,” he started his post.
“Apparently there is some pre-existing bad blood between the two of them, but I don’t think that even begins to excuse her behavior.”
As it turned out, his daughter was now dating this other girl’s ex-boyfriend and that was the reason why they weren’t fond of each other.
“At some point the other girl mentioned how my daughter’s boyfriend was just using her for s3x (this was actually a big shock to me as I had no idea she was sexually active) and called my daughter a sl*t,” the father shared with CafeMom. “That’s what escalated the situation and resulted in the wig incident. Supposedly they have been arguing in class ever since my daughter started dating the guy in question. Basically just stupid teenage ‘he said she said’ nonsense.”
After he learned of what was going on and what his daughter did, he gave her two options to choose from in order to teach her a lesson. The first one was for him to throw all her electronics away, and the second one was for her to go to the hairdresser and get a bald haircut. The daughter chose the latter and went to school with a bald head.
“…Everyone thinks I went way overboard. Her mother went ballistic at me saying it will make her the target of ʙᴜʟʟʏɪɴɢ (kind of the point, teach her some compassion),” the father wrote.
People had varied views about this, on Reddit.
Some people said the dad went too far:
‘Your daughter sucks for bullying that girl, obviously. But you went too far with this punishment’, one person wrote in the comments.
‘Your daughter is a ʙᴜʟʟʏ because you are a ʙᴜʟʟʏ’, someone else added. ‘I seriously doubt this is the first time you used abuse and humiliation to “teach her a lesson”‘.
While someone who favoured the father wrote:
‘The punishment was absolutely harsh, probably harsher than I would have done in your place (I can’t say for certain, I’m not a parent). But she will see what kind of impact actions like hers have on the victim and that will teach her a very important lesson. If teaching her that lesson makes you the (expletive), perhaps the world needs a few more.’
