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Originally posted by FATPad
I don't know...
The issue for me isn't even what she did. It's that she told him what she was going to allow for her punishment. He said you're grounded, she said you can't do that.
Personally, that wouldn't go over here at all.
As kids get older the boundaries change. That is definitely true. They can get away with stuff at the age of 15 they couldn't at age 5.
But when an established boundary is crossed, the punishment is whatever the person paying the bills decides is the punishment. Letting some kid tell you what their punishment will be is not a good precedent to be setting.
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I agree. I obviously misread the first post in the beginning. I didn't realise that it was teh daughter bitching back at her mother about the chosen punishment. Grounding would not be my choice of punishment for a normally well behaved 17 year old girl but if she gave me shit for whatever punishment I might choose to levy then she'd KNOW she'd done wrong. I very rarely talked back to my parents and when I did, they made me wish I hadn't. I'd take the same line with my own kids.