the father is absolutely right, except how he punished her. i am not sure shoot her computer was good idea, he could ran over the computer withe car or tractor, or let a pig sit on it.
i can image any person's childhood didn't have chords in he or her life. the father like any parent would give the most simplest chores in the world, i had to do them in my house, most of the tfs members did when they were younger. i even feed the chicken, give hay and clean out the horse's stalls, and plow the fields, before i went to school. i got up every morning at 2 am, because my parents had to take me a farmer's house, we live in the city, it took my parents an hour to get me to the farmer. around 4 am, i started my chords and i had to 8 am to finished them, and i went to school and the school's bus picked up at the farmer's house. also i had a crushed the farmer's daughter, his daughter's name was dorothy, get it?
seriously, the reason why, a child has chords is teach the child: responsibility. without responsibility in a person's life, the person have no direction into adulthood, the person will never grown up to able function in the real world. right on, daddy-o!