After 18 Years, Dad Returned His Son’s Gameboy Advance He Had Confiscated As Punishment
Parents have an important role in the life of every child. They are in charge of taking care of the children, educating them, but at the same time, parents need to provide “structure” by establishing some ground rules, using discipline, and setting limits.
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The “structure” role helps children learn responsible behavior, become self-sufficient, and learn from their mistakes. But every parent should always keep in mind that the balance between the “nurture” role and the “structure” role is the ultimate goal for healthy parenting.
It seems like parents have become very creative when it comes to punishing children for not fulfilling their tasks. Parents are trying to find different ways for disciplining children that will make them learn something from those punishments.
Every action has its reaction, and one father followed this exact rule when he took away his son's Gameboy Advance (GBA) as a form of punishment. However, there is one interesting catch in this story, he forgot where he hid the GBA, and during 18 years, it sat lost in the ether of clutter.
That made this Reddit user, under the name u/cbelt3, turn to the internet community and share his funny story on one of the most liked subreddits among the Redditors called r/TIFU, which means, “Today I Fu*ked Up”. His post very quickly became popular, and he got more than 94.7k upvotes.
To find out the whole story just scroll down and enjoy. Let's dive in!
A headline of the story that has attracted a great deal of attention.
As a form of punishment for not doing his homework, dad decided to confiscate son’s GBA.
"Obviously not everywhere..."
The man explained that he had suffered a traumatic brain injury several years ago, which made him forget things.
GBA was found in the pocket of a coat from the 1930s.
Even after they packed everything up in the house for a move, GBA was nowhere to be found. But after 18 years it was found, and the best thing is that it worked!
"Family has further proof that I’m an idiot", said the narrator.
1. One Reddit user simply couldn’t escape the sense of nostalgia.
2. The dad reveled that he had bought the new GBA as a replacement.
3. "Cockroaches, Nokia phones, Gameboys. Name anything else that would survive a nuclear holocaust".
4. Hearing this story, one Redditor remembered that his parents also had hid his GBA.
5. There’s an interesting story behind the Viennese trench coat from the ‘30s, too.
6. This story put a smile on this Redditor’s face.
7. A similar story happened here.
8. “This was a great short read.”
9. An awesome gamer grandma to the rescue…
10. We are all amazed.
11. Dad stories are the best.
12. Great story.
13. This story has a happy ending, too.
14. Always look inside the couch.
15. Lol, this happens quite a lot.
16. A warning to parents:
17. Famous George Carlin routine.
We have heard of many different types of punishment, but this one which took 18 years is a whole new level. All jokes aside, it was not on purpose.
As we can see, because of the traumatic brain injury, u/cbelt3 was prone to forgetting things. But luckily, he had found the GBA even after 18 years, and finding a long-lost GBA can improve anyone’s day for sure.
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