It’s important to treat and respect everyone equally regardless of being the owner or staff. In this story a teen girl’s behaviour towards the maid was wrong and her father decided to discipline her. Read the whole story and let us know if you agree with the father. My M46 daughter (16) is a high school junior!

I noticed recently that she’s been behaving in a bad manner, constantly commenting on other people’s looks, and 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, and “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 erupted and labeled our housemaid a liar, claiming she had never called her that. That was the final straw. My daughter came to me days later, stating she couldn’t find her iPhone after searching everywhere. She asked me to call her phone number, which I did. My wife and I were taken aback when we discovered the iPhone ringing inside our housemaid’s bag.

I confronted her right away, and she denied it, crying that she had never touched the phone and had no idea how it got there. When I noticed my daughter continually calling her thief, I urged her to stop and go to her room. I was furious when I observed my daughter place her phone into our housemaid’s bag on the indoor camera before resuming the quarrel.

I apologized to the housemaid and told her she could take the rest of the day off. When I showed the movie to my daughter, she was speechless. I told her it was immoral and just disrespectful to jeopardize that poor woman’s livelihood over a trivial party she couldn’t attend. I informed her she was grounded and would have to sleep in the backyard (she is a germaphobe), but she begged me not to have her sleep in the dirt.

Insects and a high temperature I refused to discuss it, threatening to sleep for two nights. My wife thought I should be gentle with her, but I told her that calling someone dirty and accusing them of stealing was not acceptable, and that it was the absolute worst. I then carried out my punishment. What are your thoughts? Did I go too far?