As parents, we have the responsibility for raising our children and doing the best job that we can. Nobody is ever going to agree with every option for parenting, and there are going to be times when we even do something that could cause others to complain.

In the end, however, as long as you are not breaking the law or putting your child in danger, you are not stepping over the line. That is what a man discovered in the following story, because he did not know how to discipline his daughter in any other way.

When she began to be rebellious, he tried a number of different options but she was a teenager and just continuing in her rebellious attitude. That is when he came up with the plan that stressed a lot of people in the process.

My M46 daughter (16) is a highschool junior. I noticed recently that she’s been behaving in a bad manner constantly commenting on other people’s looks, belongings, calling them stuff that isn’t cool and just being insensitive. It’s like she lost a filter or something because usually she’s polite but my wife suspected that our daughter’s sudden misbehavior occurred after she started hanging out with new girls from the school. Basically the mean type and have picked on their behavior. I’ve 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, “etiquette” criticism. She has complained about our daughter calling her offensive names like filthy and gross for cleaning certain areas in our house. I took a stand and explicitly told my daughter I’d 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 “filthy” 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.

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