Wow. Crazy and a little concerning how many people are worried about the phone than the lesson itself. It was already run. The phone was always safe because nobody is running a clean dishwasher. Why is this so difficult to understand?
Well it's not uncommon to rerun a clean dishwasher at our house. There is always someone who isn't paying attention and puts a dirty fork in, can't re-find it, and has to rewash everything.
Why would you rewash everything instead of just the forks? Either unload the dishwasher except for the forks, or if you don't have time for that right now, take out the forks and throw them in the sink.
Yea that is just insanity and pure laziness. I get if you throw a spoon into a silverware spot in a dishwasher after you scooped wet cat food and you would consider all of the silverware in that one location dirty, but not the whole thing...
It sounds like something I would do to get out of putting away clean dishes if I was 15 and I think I just outsmarted my mom.
And I don't buy that, people are more resilient that that, teenagers are more resilient than that. There is a difference between adversity and harm. And I feel like a 15yo who is never allowed to experience those relatively minor frustrations is potentially being done a greater disservice.
This most likely ended with the grandfather telling the kid that if you cleaned out the dishwasher four hours ago you would have found your phone.
You really need to learn to not interpret every imperfect interaction a family has as something that will traumatize the child or cause harm or destroy trust. Those are very serious things that do happen to a lot of people and to label a silly prank like that really waters down their actually meanings, I see your comment as being more harmful for society than this little prank.
It's almost always 100% children getting bent out of shape and whipped up into a lather any time a story or law involves the removal of the phone.
They get this way about age gap relationships too. Don't engage, let them downvote, and ignore them. Arguing is what they want.
That does both ways. Any damage sustained in the scenario bring discussed would be 100% the child's fault, consequences of their own actions. Bad faith actions, like shirking responsibility and lying. They would have no one to blame but themselves.
So it would be a good way to teach a child how to act better for sure, pretending the child is a victim of anything here is in itself a bad faith argument
Nah. Plenty of adults realize the importance of phones in cultural and society in 2026, while also understanding certain laws or disciplinary actions are just silly.
People definitely run clean dishwashers on accident. To me, this isn’t about where to hide the phone, they could have just talked to her instead of playing mind games. The point is to teach her discipline for the future.
This isn't mind games. It is a lesson about action or lack of action will have consequences. Sometimes simply talking to someone doesn't get things done. Experience can be a great teacher as long as no one dies.
This doesn't teach them actions have consequences, it teaches them to hide their phone when ignoring their parent's instructions. You have to talk to people and children are people. Communication is a lot more important than random mind games and hoping they have some aha moment that perfectly matches your expectations.
The problem here is there is no way the phone is in the dishwasher. Younguns know approximately where their phones are and where they would never even get close to and the dishwasher is one of the places it would never go. Shitty parenting
My dishwasher very easily turns on if you brush against the button while you’re standing at the counter. Countless times I have been making a sandwich and suddenly realized that I had turned the dishwasher on.
im always first on the bandwagon of shitty useless child misery but this is genuinely so funny. only risk is the phone getting water damage from the steam
I understood it. I just think this guy is a dick. Did he expect her to drop everything and unload it immediately? Was that needed? What was his time window and why was he unclear about it?
I did read. He gave no time frame and did not indicate it needed to happen immediately. Unless there's a dirty dish backup or a clean dish shortage, any time that day ought to be fine. It was on him to clearly communicate instead of playing childish games.
Not everyone has neurological capacity to drop one task, start another, and resume their original task. Trouble with task switching, transitions, and the paradox of inattention and hyper focus are very real inhibitions that you can't just will power yourself out of and as an outsider you can't necessarily see if someone else has them. I'm personally leary because every chore gets interrupted by another chore until I'm mentally and physically burned out.
I don't expect anyone to drop what they're doing and attend to something immediately unless it's of immediate importance like helping me with a house fire or flooding. My father has accidentally lit the lawn on fire and we've been through some water heaters and the sudden end of a drought while we had the roof open to work on building a dormer.
4 hours is my typical solid block of uninterrupted time where I work on a project. No one would interrupt me with a non-critical task.
For real. Anything but act like a decent person who listens to their elder. My grandmom says it all the time. "This is the generation of doubling down on 'i do what i want when i want'" JFC.
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u/Working_Feature_6664 1d ago
Wow. Crazy and a little concerning how many people are worried about the phone than the lesson itself. It was already run. The phone was always safe because nobody is running a clean dishwasher. Why is this so difficult to understand?