My 15 year old daughter wouldn't pass me the TV remote...

RandallFlagg

...so I threatened to waterboard her favourite cuddly toy sloth.

does this make me a bad parent?

Myranda

RandallFlagg said:

...so I threatened to waterboard her favourite cuddly toy sloth.

does this make me a bad parent?

Depends... did the sloth have it coming

BigBearKris

Nah...makes her spoilt kid.

Reclaim the remote and waterborne the little fucker regardless. 

slacker

It's your fault for a being in the same room as a teenager and b talking to her. I avoid a and b until they were 24.

Grunfeld

What was the rationale for not passing the TV remote?
For all we know, your daughter has good reason for not letting you have it!

RandallFlagg

Grunfeld said:

What was the rationale for not passing the TV remote?
For all we know, your daughter has good reason for not letting you have it!

Because she didn't want to watch what I wanted to, her nose was stuck into the iPhone that is permanently fixed in the palm of her hand at the time, on Facebook or Pokemon Go or some other  twaddle.

no legitimate reason, plus I am The Boss. 

RandallFlagg

Myranda said:

RandallFlagg said:

...so I threatened to waterboard her favourite cuddly toy sloth.

does this make me a bad parent?

Depends... did the sloth have it coming

Yes, most definitely. It just sits around doing nothing, pretty much like it's owner, who clearly can't be bothered to put empty drink bottles and cans in the bin that is all of 18 inches from the end of her bed, or put dirty clothes in the wash bin, some 5 feet outside her bedroom door.

RandallFlagg

BigBearKris said:

Nah...makes her spoilt kid.

Reclaim the remote and waterborne the little fucker regardless. 

I like the cut of your jib sir. To be honest it was pretty audacious of her to think she could sit in the same room as me without my express permission

JezWynd

RandallFlagg said:

Grunfeld said:

What was the rationale for not passing the TV remote?
For all we know, your daughter has good reason for not letting you have it!

....
no legitimate reason, plus I am The Boss. 

Of course you are dear.

tone1

Just switch off the wifi...job done me thinks

digitalscream

Pffft. You're doing it wrong.

When sproglet was 4, I did the sock-puppet thing with my hands in front of her (without the sock), and told her they were geese coming to bite her. Gave her such a neurosis about it that she didn't get over it until she was well into her teens.

Any time she misbehaved...geese. Worked wonders.

My wife was somewhat conflicted; while she didn't approve of scaring children, she wasn't above saying, "Do I have to ask Daddy if the geese are home?" when sproglet was being a brat.

snakemanStoo

BJJ style armbars are the best way to convince sprogs that your way is the only way.

Myranda

digitalscream said:

Pffft. You're doing it wrong.

When sproglet was 4, I did the sock-puppet thing with my hands in front of her (without the sock), and told her they were geese coming to bite her. Gave her such a neurosis about it that she didn't get over it until she was well into her teens.

Any time she misbehaved...geese. Worked wonders.

My wife was somewhat conflicted; while she didn't approve of scaring children, she wasn't above saying, "Do I have to ask Daddy if the geese are home?" when sproglet was being a brat.

I *may* know someone who had to tell off their niece while babysitting ... he came up with the idea of saying "if you don't go to b3d I'll flush you down the toilet"

She laughed of course and didn't go... so he picked her up and held her over the toilet... 

For years he could get her to stop being naughty by saying he'd flush her away...

Evilmags

Myranda said:

digitalscream said:

Pffft. You're doing it wrong.

When sproglet was 4, I did the sock-puppet thing with my hands in front of her (without the sock), and told her they were geese coming to bite her. Gave her such a neurosis about it that she didn't get over it until she was well into her teens.

Any time she misbehaved...geese. Worked wonders.

My wife was somewhat conflicted; while she didn't approve of scaring children, she wasn't above saying, "Do I have to ask Daddy if the geese are home?" when sproglet was being a brat.

I *may* know someone who had to tell off their niece while babysitting ... he came up with the idea of saying "if you don't go to b3d I'll flush you down the toilet"

She laughed of course and didn't go... so he picked her up and held her over the toilet... 

For years he could get her to stop being naughty by saying he'd flush her away...

Great minds think alike. Kept mine from getting smacked for years. She must have been at least 13 before she realised I would not do it. Cutting WiFi and phone is also fairly effective. 

JezWynd

digitalscream said:

Pffft. You're doing it wrong.

When sproglet was 4, I did the sock-puppet thing with my hands in front of her (without the sock), and told her they were geese coming to bite her. Gave her such a neurosis about it that she didn't get over it until she was well into her teens.

Any time she misbehaved...geese. Worked wonders.

My wife was somewhat conflicted; while she didn't approve of scaring children, she wasn't above saying, "Do I have to ask Daddy if the geese are home?" when sproglet was being a brat.

I'm awed, have a Wow!

Sambostar

If it were my daughter I'd walk past her bedroom window at night completely naked with a torch slung to my ankle pointing up, then the next morning warn her about an escaped paranoid maniac who preys on young girls watching TV who is apparently on the run in the local area.

RandallFlagg

Sambostar said:

If it were my daughter I'd walk past her bedroom window at night completely naked with a torch slung to my ankle pointing up, then the next morning warn her about an escaped paranoid maniac who preys on young girls watching TV who is apparently on the run in the local area.

You need help. I hope you don't live near me. Perhaps I should tell her that Sambostar will get her...

paul_c2

He'd also need scaffolding, I'd have thought?

ToneControl

switching the wifi off works like smelling salts, they come running out of their burrows into the light of day

Sarge

This reminds me of all the times I won't give the wife the remote when she wants to watch another bleak Scando crime drama,  boy I can be a right stroppy teenager sometimes! 

RandallFlagg

ToneControl said:

switching the wifi off works like smelling salts, they come running out of their burrows into the light of day

I agree on switching off the the wi-fi, workd wonders with my son and XBOX live when he needed recalibrating recently. Problem is I am on BT Infinity and can't find a way to exclude just some devices, it's all or nothing with the BT Homehub 5 as far as I can see so I have to suffer as well!