But the girl kept pushing her dad's buttons after repeated warnings to not do this again in the future or things would be a whole lot worse. She did it anyway, did not listen to her dad then by sheer stupidity, made the post from her own laptop then had her own dad whom she posted badly about who is also an IT professional work on her computer for 6 hours upgrading it and adding new software to it. Then needless to say he finds the post after she deliberately took measures to to block her parents from seeing it.
If they guy is an IT professional, I would only assume that in that $130 software upgrade he did, he would also likely installed key stroke tracking software that runs silently in the background without her knowledge. Before anyone is in a tizzy, technically the computer belongs to the dad because he bought and it paid for it with his own money. He only ALLOWS the daughter to use it, it is technically not her laptop. So if he wanted to run keystroke tracking software on his own computer that he allowed his daughter to use for schoolwork and for social networking with friends. Also the fact she is only 15 years old, soon to be 16, she is still a minor. When you are a minor, you have no privacy. She also has no job, therefore her dad gives her chores around the house to do to help the family run the household and even told the daughter if she got a job these chores would be reduced or even completely disappear.
The father has now set some new standards for her:
1. She will get a new laptop when she buys a new a laptop after paying her father back for the $130 plus the nine bullets he put in the one he shot up.
2. When she breaks her cell phone, she will be required to pay for her own new cell phone. (he revealed she had already been through 4 droid phones because she keeps losing them or breaking them).
3. She WILL get a job one way or another.
My suggestion - her stepmom owns and runs a veterinary clinic, why not force the girl to work there for wages just like the other employees, starting on her 16th birthday? Have her work a full 40 hours a week while juggling school as a high school student then see if the girl still thinks that doing minor chores and keeping up with school is 'freaking crazy'.
Just when the girl thinks when she will be able to just buy her a new laptop and cell phone in a couple of weeks slap the girl with rent, car insurance, gas, maintenance and upkeep on vehicle, has to buy her own clothes, and whatever else she thinks she 'needs'. Pay her only minimum wage. The girl will soon find out that it will take her months and months to even come close to saving up enough money for a new laptop with everything she wants on it, new phone with everything she wants on it, a new dSLR camera she wants, AFTER she pays back her dad and paying her bills. The parents can even throw in an offer of 'extra money' if she does extra things around the house such as - taking Linda's place for a day for a whopping extra $5. That will teach her the value of hard work and a job well done. My daughter s 8 and she is currently learning that lesson by being required to work with me in the chicken houses every day after school as well as all day on Saturday, until all the money is paid back through labor. After her punishment is up I will have another heart to heart talk with her and offer her to work for her own wages on the farm if she so wishes to. This means she will get to have her own money that she earned herself to spend how she wishes. I think at that point she will have learned the value of work.
