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Pacman does not even have kids yet.
I just said example about if I have kids in near future.
Pacman does not even have kids yet.
Yes, I do grounding punishments, such as not playing outdoors with friends, or having friends over, or not having to play with their video games. Depends on how bad it is, When my son got a bad grade on his report card, I would grounded him for one week, and if it happens again he would be grounded for another week and even discuss the bad grade with him, and why he went from A to C, if he needed help with anything he could have asked me, and even discuss how education was important and that should be his first priority than his friends or any other activities. He's very smart but getting a bit lazy with his school work, because he seems to chooses his friends and been spending so much time with his friends and not doing much with his school work, I cut that so he could improve better, and only spend weekends with his friends so that he could do better in school.
My youngest son has been talking in class twice, but I don't grounded him over that, I just talked to him about it, and how important education is for him, and he should not be talking in class, should focus his attention on his teacher and his school work, and talking is later when it is allowed. I even told him if it happens again, Don't make me come to your class, sit and watch you like a hawk, I know I got through him good on that one, I could see his face looks frighten. :Ohno: Lol!!!
QUOTE=RebelGirl;717878]I would like a feedback whether you believe in grounding your child or children or not?
Hi. I have two children. They are too young for to be grounded, but when they reach the reasonable age to be grounded, we will ground them if the need arise, depending on how severe the situation is, as to what the child did to deserve punishment. For now, we are still doing time outs, which is still working for both our children.
If your kid fought in school, would you ground him/her? If your kid talks back, makes bad grades, disobey you , etc, would you ground him/her? How long do you ground him/her for?
It all depends on the situation and the severity of it.
If you don't believe in grounding, how do you punish your child for wrong doing? I'm just really curious. I've never been grounded before and my boyfriend has. My boyfriend has the military punishment since his step-dad was in the army. So he was pretty strict. I grew up almost never getting in trouble. I have talked in class, made a couple of bad grades, fought with another student and so on, but never once been grounded.
I'm not from a military family, but I have been grounded a few times, usually for breaking curfew, not getting back home on time & stuff like that. I did not get grounded for talking back to a teacher'cause my Mom knew that the teacherdealt with that herself/himself like giving me a markdown on my grade or dentention. As for bad grades, my Mom also never grounded me for that. My grades are my responsibilities, she would just talk to me and tell me that she's disappointed but hoped I'd do better from that point on and stuff. She knew I was like her, never really liking school & w/ being absent alot due to various reasons, it wasn't always easy to get good grades, esp in one certain class that I had always struggled with. I also have fought with classmates at school but they weren't physical, they were simple arguments between friends & boyfriends. So, no, I don't get grounded for that, at all. :]
Now, my boyfriend and I have an issue whether to ground my daughter for talking in class but yet she made the A-B honor roll. That's one of the reason i didn't ground her but to talk to her about not talking in class and wait til the teacher gives permission for the kids to talk in class. My boyfriend thinks the opposite. He thinks we should ground her for like 2 days to make her realize its not funny and its serious. I kinda agree with him but I feel bad.
Honestly, I wouldn't ground my children for simply talking in class, especially if they are making A's and B's! Kids has a tendency to talk a lot, that's perfectly normal! Now, if they were talking back to the teacher, then that's a different story! Depending on what the child said, the child might get grounded for probably a day & I'd demand that my child apologize to the teacher by writing a apology letter! And, I'll know if my child brought it to the teacher or not since I will check w/ my child's teacher! :]
I would be happy to hear from your side and tell me how you punish your child. I'm not speaking of spanking.. only on how to punish and in what way.
Let me know what you guys decided to do. Good luck!
-DeafMama78
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Don't make me come to your class, sit and watch you like a hawk, I know I got through him good on that one, I could see his face looks frighten. :Ohno: Lol!!!
deafmama78[COLOR="Purple" said:Hi. I have two children. They are too young for to be grounded, but when they reach the reasonable age to be grounded, we will ground them if the need arise, depending on how severe the situation is, as to what the child did to deserve punishment. For now, we are still doing time outs, which is still working for both our children.[/COLOR]
I do believe grounding kids. But, the love and communication must involve. The kids i have, when i discipline my kids to go to their room, give different time frame. when things calm down, i sit down and talk with them, Why? Bec i love them and show for their sense of love and how parents should show love toward them. I do not believe by timidating them, like you stupid or you dont know nothing and etc. Also, when my oldest one was like 5 yrs old kindergarten, my hearing friend who is most gossipper of all came to me said I should punish her good for talking bad language, i was puzzled if my girl ever said that and secondly I told that woman she has no authority to tell me to punish my kids. So I had a talk with my daughter if she said that, she thought nothing is wrong, so I told her, it is not good to talk like that, it is a bad words. She cried and felt really bad, I told her, I'm not going to punish you, bec you dont know what that means and she said many kids at her school said that and I better tell them not to say that. I told her, well, dont punish them or etc, it is their parents responsibility to take care of it and I also told her, probably they learned from their parents. That's how I handle my kids.
RebelGirl, grounding won't work on me.
Show your children love and interesting in them. Praise them when good, use form of discipline when bad. Is it work hard to teach your children to respect?
Well, if you teach your kids very early age, it wont be hard. If later in life, will be hard. It is based on home enviroments.