Journal #5

Some parents take away cell phones, make their kids delete their facebooks, ground them from things like online games and the computer. Before we had so many technological things parents would legitemiditley ground their child by making them stay home and stay in their rooms, not allowing them to go out with their friends. I do not really know how I feel about the punishment of children. It is actually a grey area. There is not a black and white way of how you should punish your child. It actually really depends on what the child did. If they did something absolutley horrible and awful such as trap their little brothers in an oven and turn the oven on. If a person did something that bad then yes, they should be grounded from a phone, the computer, the tv, their friends, and everything else that they enjoy doing because trapping a younger sibling in an oven is not ok! Believe me this actually happens. I was watching the show super nanny on oxygen tv, channel fifty eight, and a boy who was thirteen years old, obviously old enough to know better than to do this to his sibling. The thirteen year old actually did this to his younger brother, who was a young little guy. He was only about four. Shockingly enough the parents did not even punish the thirteen year old. This would probably be why he thought it was okay to stick his younger brother in the drawer under the oven and turn the oven on. He thought it was okay because his parents never had taken anything away from him before, so he had nothing to be afraid of. If I knew I was going to lose my phone, facebook, computer, television and all the other technological things that I enjoy, then I would never do some of the things that would get that taken away from me. Some parents are just over the edge with taking this stuff away however. If the kid gets a little lippy or misses their curfew by one minute then the parents go crazy and ground their kid from everything. Now that is just a little excessive.