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<\/p>\nIt\u2019s basic decency to be kind to those around you, irrespective of their social standing. When one teenager violated a basic tenet that her father valued, she was punished and grounded.<\/p>\n
The concerned father took to Reddit explaining why he made his daughter, a germaphobe, sleep in the backyard for disrespecting their house help. He asked if he was wrong to punish his daughter with what many considered such severity. He titled the post: Am I the a$$hole for making my daughter sleep in the backyard after what she did to our housemaid?\u201d
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\u201cMy daughter (16) is a high school junior. I noticed recently that she\u2019s been behaving in a bad manner constantly commenting on other people\u2019s looks, belongings, calling them stuff that isn\u2019t cool, and just being insensitive,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s like she lost a filter or something because usually she\u2019s polite but my wife suspected that our daughter\u2019s sudden misbehavior occurred after she started hanging out with new girls from the school.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said that she appeared to have befriended a \u2018mean type\u2019 of people and picked up on their behavior. \u201cI\u2019ve sat with my daughter and had many discussions about how her behavior has been negatively affecting everyone around her. Our housemaid is the person most affected here and my daughter has chosen her to be her target for hair, clothes, \u201cetiquette\u201d criticism,\u201d he wrote, before adding that the house help had complained of his daughter calling her offensive names such as \u2018filthy\u2019 and \u2018gross\u2019 for cleaning certain areas in the house.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI took a stand and explicitly told my daughter I\u2019d punish her if she ever said stuff like that to our housemaid again. Last week my daughter had a party to go to, earlier that day she called our housemaid \u201cfilthy\u201d so I grounded her by not letting her go to the party. She threw a fit and called our housemaid a liar saying she never called her that. That was the end of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
A few days later, the 16-year-old complained that she couldn\u2019t find her iPhone. \u201cShe asked me to call her number and I did. My wife and I were stunned to discover that the iPhone was ringing inside our housemaid\u2019s bag.<\/p>\n
I had a confrontation with her immediately and she denied, and cried saying she never touched the phone nor had any idea how it got there.\u201d The teenager viciously called the house help a thief repeatedly before her Dad intervened. \u201cI told her to stop and go to her room. I checked the indoor camera before continuing the argument and saw my daughter place her iPhone inside our housemaid\u2019s bag, I was livid. I apologized to the housemaid and gave her the rest of the day off. I then showed the video to my daughter and she was absolutely speechless.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He couldn\u2019t believe the extent to which his daughter went to hurt the house help. \u201cI said what she did was immoral and straight-up offensive to tamper with that poor woman\u2019s livelihood over a petty party she couldn\u2019t go to. I told her she was grounded and will have to spend the night in the backyard (she is a germaphobe) but she cried begging me to not make her sleep with the dirt, insects, and hot temperature. I refused to discuss it or I\u2019d make it 2 nights. My wife said I should go easy on her but I said calling people filthy and accusing them of stealing wasn\u2019t ok in fact it was the absolute worst, I then went through with my punishment,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
A majority of them sided with the Dad and said the house help didn\u2019t deserve such treatment at all. \u201cYou should pay the maid a week salary and make your daughter do ALL the housework for a week!\u201d wrote one person. The teenager supposedly refused to eat after being punished in such a manner. One Redditor suggested therapy. \u201cNo, don\u2019t do this. Send her to therapy. Something is clearly up and pushing a kid to be self-destructive is unacceptable,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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