Parent deletes his kid's Minecraft world as punishment for sleeping late, asks if he's the asshole

[ERYFKRAD]

That really depends on how a person's biological clock is set up.
9yo or not.

I dont think that matters. If your clock says you need y-x amount of sleep you need that and everything out of that will not let you wake up. If I myself for example only get 4-5 hours of sleep theres a good risk I sleep through a clock or wake up but only long enough to go back to sleep. what does she expect him to do, tell himself a thousand times to please wake up at seven every night?

Some people can actually set up a pretty accurate alarm clock in their minds.
I could at some point, but I am not sure if I still have that ability.
Probably not.
It's been hell of a lot time since I last used it.

Right, but expecting that out of a kid is like asking too much.

 

[Tacgnol]

No sane person would get up at 7 if he doesn't have to.

Eh, I'm a morning person. I'm up at 6:30 every morning even if I'm hungover.

I wake up before alarms, so just seems to be how my body is programmed.

 

[ScrotumBroth]

Soyboy beta can't even do it face to face with his kid, sneaks up and backstabs the kid for quadruple damage. This is not about teaching lessons or discipline, it's wounded ego punishment.

 

[NJClaw]

I will never be able to understand this kind of punishments. "You didn't respect my authority, so now I'm going to take away from you something you care about".

If you want to teach someone a concept (in this case, "you need to wake up on time"), the lesson itself should be coherent with that concept. The kid needs to understand why what he is doing is wrong (in this case, maybe he is missing something in the morning? I don't know) and why doing the opposite would benefit him.

The only thing he is learning with this kind of punishment is that he shouldn't upset people in positions of power, because they will use their powers to retaliate (and if this is what the father wanted to convey, that's quite the shitty father).

 

[DraQ]

The only thing he is learning with this kind of punishment is that he shouldn't upset people in positions of power, because they will use their powers to retaliate (and if this is what the father wanted to convey, that's quite the shitty father).

Hey, that's quite a useful life lesson, sadly.
Along with the one about the parent in question being a shit person.

 

[NJClaw]

The only thing he is learning with this kind of punishment is that he shouldn't upset people in positions of power, because they will use their powers to retaliate (and if this is what the father wanted to convey, that's quite the shitty father).

Hey, that's quite a useful life lesson, sadly.
Along with the one about the parent in question being a shit person.

We don't know what the kid was doing with that minecraft world.

Maybe he was hosting a furry roleplaying server and the father acted on his son's best interests.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

We don't know what the kid was doing with that minecraft world.

He was building a castle yo, for a year.

 

[NJClaw]

We don't know what the kid was doing with that minecraft world.

He was building a castle yo, for a year.

It could have been a furry roleplaying castle, better to burn everything just in case.

 

[RK47]

Why 7? What's the benefit of getting up at 7? No sane person would get up at 7 if he doesn't have to.

Farmers etc....

You get to fap before everyone else is awake

 

[Reinhardt]

They should do this at schools. Give them teachers
the power to cut internet access or to delete profiles,
save games and likewise. That would be hilarious.

They already have power to force your kid to eat hormones because why not. Modern day "teachers" should be beaten with sticks, not given more power.

 

[Silverfish]

"Looks like your castle won't be seeing the sunrise either."

 

[Curratum]

I've done similar, except I back up the files / saves in the cloud and restore them once the X days of punishment have expired because I'm not a fucking psycho.

 

[garren]

Heh, reminds me when I first started coding on a computer as a kid, I had one of those computer magazines and it had instructions for some small program you could try to write yourself. I didn't really understand what I was doing but I managed to get the IDE installed and started writing the code.

I spent six hours straight on that shit trying to get it working because I didn't quite understand it, then went to get some food. I come back, dad is playing solitaire on the computer. He had just closed the IDE, and of course I didn't save. Gee, thanks, didn't wanna touch that shit again for a loong time.

 

[Tacgnol]

Heh, reminds me when I first started coding on a computer as a kid, I had one of those computer magazines and it had instructions for some small program you could try to write yourself. I didn't really understand what I was doing but I managed to get the IDE installed and started writing the code.

I spent six hours straight on that shit trying to get it working because I didn't quite understand it, then went to get some food. I come back, dad is playing solitaire on the computer. He had just closed the IDE, and of course I didn't save. Gee, thanks, didn't wanna touch that shit again for a loong time.

To be fair, he did teach you a valuable lesson about saving your work.

 

[DraQ]

It could have been a furry roleplaying castle, better to burn everything just in case.

Show us on the doll where you were knotted.

 

[Silly Germans]

They should do this at schools. Give them teachers
the power to cut internet access or to delete profiles,
save games and likewise. That would be hilarious.

They already have power to force your kid to eat hormones because why not. Modern day "teachers" should be beaten with sticks, not given more power.

What is this about ? In my country teachers are toothless and can do nothing that matters.
Most of the time they get flak from parents, blaming teachers for not doing their job for them.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

The amount of sperging out over this here is a bit surprising to me. As a child, my school principle had a wooden paddle on the wall behind his desk, and many of my neighborhood pals were whipped on the regular by their parents. Even I was given the hard hand once or twice, though usually a stern look or 'HEY!' from pops was enough to chill me out. Part of the credibility of parental authority is children's fear of it.

Deleting the Minecraft save was a bit of a worm thing to do, and of course no one likes the 'because I say so' arbitrary nature of parenting, but it is was it is. Giving a child everything they ask for and never having them go through difficulties will produce weak adults. And at the end of the day, children are a bit like pets. They are impulsive and have shit memories. As soon as junior high and girls reaches this boy's nostrils, the Minecraft debacle will be a faint memory from long ago. And thanks to mom and dad's watchful eye, this kid will grow up stronger and later on thank his parents for their care and disciplined love.

Or it will eat away at his soul, and by high school he'll be polishing his AR-15 and looking to get even with the world. Either way, it's always in his ability to realize that everything in life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it. Lessons are there to be taught (and learned). Easy way, or hard way.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

needless emotional cruelty in parenting

i've been constantly humiliated, actively neglected and beaten up by my parents up to adult age. it stopped when i broke our car's windshield with a punch so fast and precise i didn't cut my hand, to show them what i was capable of.
never underestimate the hate the parents have for their children.

 

[Norfleet]

Yes, but there's a difference: When you beat your kids, it's over and done with quickly and they go on with their business. If the parent had reacted to this by beating their kids with a broom until they woke up, that probably would have been no big deal, although still just as ultimately purposeless, since it's not like they're going to change biology that way.

 

[Cromwell]

i've been constantly humiliated, actively neglected and beaten up by my parents up to adult age. it stopped when i broke our car's windshield with a punch so fast and precise i didn't cut my hand, to show them what i was capable of.
never underestimate the hate the parents have for their children.

and look what became of you, a regular on the codex!

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

well, what i am now has much more to share with the loss of a leg and all the work i did to join the air force, the loss of all my friends due to cancer, the loss of the will to go on once you accepted you weren't going to go on and some other misc stuff. up to 2003-2004 i was a still well functioning human.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

well, what i am now has much more to share with the loss of a leg and all the work i did to join the air force, the loss of all my friends due to cancer, the loss of the will to go on once you accepted you weren't going to go on and some other misc stuff. up to 2003-2004 i was a still well functioning human.

Look at this fag bragging about being a cyborg

 

[JarlFrank]

The amount of sperging out over this here is a bit surprising to me. As a child, my school principle had a wooden paddle on the wall behind his desk, and many of my neighborhood pals were whipped on the regular by their parents. Even I was given the hard hand once or twice, though usually a stern look or 'HEY!' from pops was enough to chill me out. Part of the credibility of parental authority is children's fear of it.

There's a difference between a swift beating and destroying a year's worth of creative effort.

 

[JarlFrank]

well, what i am now has much more to share with the loss of a leg and all the work i did to join the air force, the loss of all my friends due to cancer, the loss of the will to go on once you accepted you weren't going to go on and some other misc stuff. up to 2003-2004 i was a still well functioning human.

Look at this fag bragging about being a cyborg

He never asked for this.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

The amount of sperging out over this here is a bit surprising to me. As a child, my school principle had a wooden paddle on the wall behind his desk, and many of my neighborhood pals were whipped on the regular by their parents. Even I was given the hard hand once or twice, though usually a stern look or 'HEY!' from pops was enough to chill me out. Part of the credibility of parental authority is children's fear of it.

There's a difference between a swift beating and destroying a year's worth of creative effort.

It's a fucking video game, bro. You're getting too bent out of shape over a series of 1s and 0s.

I've known people whose parents made them buy a POS car just so they would be forced to rebuild it. I've known people who have been forced to change schools because of various reasons. And I've certainly known people whose parents made them ditch the love of their life over drugs/bad friends/etc. Deleting a castle in Minecraft is chump change. If the kid was 16 then the symbolism might have been more substantial and the burn worse. The kid's 9. He'll get over it and learn an important lesson.