This is shaming and not discipline. Social media platforms should police and ban videos like this. I did not watch it because people do this for views and money. Pathetic. People like these should be castrated. They do not deserve to be parents.

He's so pleased with himself...ugh, if punishing your child is giving you any kind of giddiness or power trip I would say you're doing it wrong.

I'm sure the Dad is one of those people who claim "I was spanked and turned out fine". No you didn't especially if you continue the cycle of abuse in your family. Consequences make the most sense in correcting a child's behavior. The adult has to be the adult in the situation at all times.

As soon as a man starts smuggly "punishing" his child/ren -- usually girls -- for "disrespect," we know that he's likely the problem, not the child. Also, do you want your kids to grow up to be hoarders? Because this kind of trauma is how then end up hoarding, or never developing any attachments to anyone because it's just going to be taken away. Men like this don't care, though. They're sad, insecure little boys who get off on bullying others. I hope his kids put him in the worst rest home ever.

I can't believe someone actually thinks emotional abuse isn't abuse. It does just as much damage. It can cause emotional scars, low self-esteem and PTSD. (I still deal with it.)

same thing happened to me, and yes i am destroyed :)

Just take the phone away. Problem solved. I understand wanting to discipline a kid who is being a brat but stop allowing it. I see parents all the time telling their kids to stop behavior, but then give in 2 minutes later and give them treats, pay for phones, give in in some way. This is simple: take the phone away. When they get angry say "this is the consequence to your actions. No phone for a month and the next time you do it it will be 2 months. Remember this feeling." Then make sure you change the wifi passwords so they can't sign into the internet on a different device. Trust me, once they know that your punishments are real and you aren't going to give in, they'll stop. if that doesn't fix it then you need to step up to a more severe punishment but at no time do you have to put your hands on the kid or break something that is costly like this. Let her know privileges are to be earned. She has to earn it back.

What exactly was he making her do I couldn't tell?

Forcing your daughter to destroy a perfectly good phone which was probably bought with your own money will surely make her respect her mother more, right. I wish insecure parents stopped calling their power trips "discipline". He also posted it publicly, so the whole world could see that a grown-a*s man has power over an 8-year-old kid. Pathetic.

my mother would do way worse than this if i got a toy for Christmas or my birthday. i would have it for that day and then it went into the trash. i didn't even do anything wrong so it was not a punishment for bad behavior. and when i did do something wrong it was the leather belt with the metal loops that connected the leather. when i got older i was the youngest. any time i did something she didn't like she would call everyone in the family to tell them what i did. they were all much older than me so i would hear it six times and what a loser i was.my mother was extremely cruel with her tactics.

Ppl need to stop abusing children all together. It's bullshït.

All she will learn from that is that her dad can be a cruel being to be around, who will sometimes act completely irrational, and hence that she can never predict what will happen. What exactly is the link between being disrespectful of the mother and having a phone? None what so ever, the phone is just a way to hurt her, as pain aparantly is his way of controlling her actions. This can only end in two ways, either he will break her down, so much that she will be an anxious wreck, who will never trust him or anybody else, will isolate herself out of fear, and cling on to him as he is the only human around, or, can we hope her sake, she will realise what a terrible person he is, and cut him out of her life, leaving him wandering what happened, when he is rotting in a retirement home. Your job as a parent is to help your child understand how the world works, and what consiquences their actions bring, not to introduce artifical consiquenses, like these designed in order to control them.

Children are usually emotionally attached to what they own. I was too emotionally attached to whatever I had, I'd take care of them like they were living things. This is no better than telling the child to take their pet's life. If someone had made me destroy something I owned this way, I would've never ever forgiven them... and I would've been scarred for life.

I am thinking that it was not a good idea in the first place to give such a young girl their own phone. Bad choice?

I would argue that emotional abuse is worse than physical abuse. If you tell someone you don't speak to your parents as an adult because they used to hit you, they generally are understanding. But if you tell them it waa because they emotionally abused you they'll say "but those are your parents. They're family!", "they were just raised in different times", or "I'm sure they love you"

Why does this kid have a phone in the first place???

..good discipline ...but too bad in filming it

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We only know one side of the story and apparently that's enough to pass judgement

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Dad is a hero!

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The people mad are the reason we're at an all time high for kids being disrespectful in school and feeling entitled wherever they go. Were living in a generation that instead of students accepting the world doesn't cater to them alone, they retaliate against teacher and start petitions to get them fired. That they're entitled to wear whatever they want to work. That the world is theirs. There's no respect with kids growing up, with their reasoning being they're not being respected.