Believe me, I know kids can be little hellions, - and I have no doubt Alec Baldwin's little girl is a handful. But, so as to demonstrate absurdity by being absurd, the rhetorical questions I would pose is this, "should a parent act childish as a method of inducing maturity in their child?" Would that tactic "straighten out" the daughter in question?
The answer to that questions reveals Alec Baldwin to be a stupid idiot.
-BT