Parents! What punishment have you dished out....

That would get you the "Meanest Paerent" award??
I bet you don't top this lady, I am applauding her all the way!!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080109/ap_on_fe_st/odd_car_ad;_ylt=AkqoBJrsVezggnOF7JVom1es0NUE

My brother in law and sister did something similar to his son - the 17 year old had gotten into an accident with his car. The other person involved gave him money to fix the car and instead of using the money for repairs, he spent it on an i-pod and other stuff. Then he lied about it and said the money had been stolen at school (after his parents strictly told him NOT to take that amount of money to school).
In response to the son's actions, my brother in law sold his car on e-bay. Now the kid has no car and no way to get to work. From what I understand, he's walking about 3 miles both ways in the winter to get to his afterschool job. Harsh lesson hopefully learned.....

It is a hard lesson, but hopefully they learn something. Lose your child or lose the car? Not a hard choice for us parents is it?

Nothing like that. My son's favorite toy from Christmas(a Ripstick) has been taken away for it laying in the way all the time.

I caught up with a girlfriend over the holidays and we talked about the time her young (now they are college grads!) children had slamming bedroom door anger fits at each other. She took the doors off their rooms. They had lost door privileges!

Yup, no doors to slam would solve that problem...quickly!

I've changed the password on the computer when the girls get snitty about getting off and doing homework/setting the table/folding their laundry/going to bed....
No email for a couple of days works wonders in the cooperation dept.
Also no tv leads to book reading - ever notice that?

When youngest DS was in HS and his grades slipped I would ground him from the PC for 6 weeks. (until progress reports were sent home) By the 2nd week he was running his fingers over the keyboard as he walked by, like caressing an old friend. LOL It usually made the next report card look like a miracle child had been born!

Yes I saw that story too. I'm with her 100%. My guys are still small so it's no tv or no toy or sitting alone in their room.

Really likes these ideas for punishment.. We have threatened to take the doors off but haven't had to do it yet.
Really not looking forward to the day when my kids are old enough to drive!

Question is - do I email or text them to tell them they're punished?

Haha no doubt.. Amazing how much technology has changed the types of punishments we received as kids.. My punishment as a kid was having to sit in my room and not being able to go out and play. For my kids its a punishment to make them get off of the computer/Nintendo and go outside..

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Oh no - fresh air!!!!!!!!!!!!

Raking leaves or shoveling show is serious punishment in my teenager's minds.
When I was a kid, we had to help with the yard work whether we wanted to or not. My kids want to get paid -
I don't think so!!!!

ROFL, this is to funny! *claps for the mom* Nice to see parents who actually enforce said punishments. :)

I've not had to be a mean mom yet, just starting, oh brother....

How old are yours, Tir?

14 mos and one on the way.

Congratulations! When are you due? Is the 14 mo. old a boy or girl? You may have mentioned it in the post about gardening with little ones but I forgot.

14 mo old is a girl. Not sure when due. Never keep good records on that, lol. Ultrasound Monday determines age. And who knows maybe it'll be twins, triplets or quads? bwahaha. Not hoping. :)

Best of luck! Should be fun having a newbie and a two year old!

Don't say it out loud Tir...I knew a girl, wanted 3 kids..she had one kid, then a year later another...when she went to have the third, she had triplets...there she was 24 years old with 5 kids under 3 years old...

My mom is the youngest of 15 - try to top that!! My grandmother deserved to go straight to heaven, no questions asked! She actually had 18 pregnancies. My grandfather died when my mom was only 4 (go figure - HE dies!), so she did lots of raising on her own.

I don't think I could have done that, unless it was a second offense, maybe.
I do have to say that I was a very lucky parent to have a well behaved, smart, disciplined son. That's why I stopped at one, because the next would have been a terror! Just kidding, I wanted more, it just didn't happen.

I had 5, my niece had 4 and found out she was expecting again. She turns to me and smiles, says.."Auntie, I going to have 5 just like you!" The joke ended up being on her.....she had twins, that ='s 6

Tiffany was the second child and the rebel. She always pushed the rules to the limits and sometimes broke them. During one of her 'dicipline' times, we offered her a choice. There was a basketball game she really wanted to go to and had already spent her own money for them. We offered her a choice of groundation(no game) or an old fashioned spanking. She was 14....she took the spanking and went to the game w/a sore bottom.

Stood for the game?

Well if you believe in dreams there has been a dream on both sides of the family of twin girls. No one's had them yet, lol. I came from a large family so didn't want one of those myself, fun times but hard to. My max was 4, until I got prego the second time, it's hard to mother AND be pregnant. Was easier going to work pregnant. So max is 3. :) We'll see.

Much harder having larger families today than even 20 years ago.

Yes and there is so much I'd like to be able to help my kids with that I just personally wouldn't be able to keep up with to many. I've seen and admired some large successful families but I'm not that good.

I say there are some people born to be mothers. The rest of us are just trying. And I'm in the latter batch. :)

And there are some people born never meant to be mothers, I'm one of those...knew I didn't want kids when I was 14.

That's interesting 3Gs. How many siblings do you have?

I have a younger brother. We are 3 years apart.

Yes Victor, she stood for the game! She never picked that punishment again.

I have no children myself, but one of the funniest stories I heard from a friend about discipline, if you want to call it that, was thus: Dave went crabbing with his son. While they were cleaning the crabs they had caught, Dave noticed that his fillet knife was missing. The knife had been passed to Dave from his dad and his father before. He asked his son what happened to the knife and his son feigned no knowledge of the missing knife. Later that evening during the crab dinner the subject came up again. Dave's wife gleaned the information from the son that he had thrown the knife in the bay. Dave was so infuriated, and bit scared of his own fury, he didn't say a word but marched into his son's bedroom, grabbed his son's sacred matchbox cars, opened the back door and did a heave ho into the lagoon. His son has led an exemplary lifestyle since.

Great story!

Well the lady made the evening news here!

Funny Celeste! I guess the story is making the rounds!

Yes it is making it's rounds. DD in Florida emailed it to me yesterday with the titile in the subject line "Thought you'd get a kick out of this!"

i'm with you, 3Gs.

I can't remember if I did any 'extreme parenting' or not, to be honest. I do know that the most difficult lesson I learned was sticking to what I had said! Consistency is not a one-time deal. *smile*

And, I have very responsible grown up daughters who are aware of more than just 'their worlds'.

(Now, having said that, I will find out that there's a warrant out for one or more of them! (Tee Hee!!)