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Originally Posted by MysticCat
I agree as well. Terrible parenting in my view.
We've always taken the view that the punishment should fit the crime. The "crime" is failing to check in. Grounding seems to fit much better for that. Meanwhile Dad says he wants to teach respect. I fail to see how public embarrassment teaches respect.
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I agree.
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Originally Posted by Munchkin03
If you see the comments, the father has chimed in. He misquotes Bernie Mac, uses all sorts of cliches, and doesn't know the difference between "know" and "no." Not only did he have a great big parenting FAIL, he sounds like a blooming idiot.
I liked his explanation as to why he just didn't ground the kid/take away his electronics: after all the time it would take to remove the TV, Playstation, etc., and ground him for a week, it wouldn't be worth it. What does this kid have, a man cave?  |
Meh, my kids have that stuff too and most kids that age have that stuff now. My coworker was smart with this stuff. She just took all the power cords to things when she was grounding her kids. You don't have to move everything out, you just have to make them not function. When her kids were doing things on the Internet when grounded, she took the power cord to the cable modem to work with her. Problem solved.
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