Sentences
By carolscash
@carolscash (9492)
United States
January 10, 2012 9:28pm CST
Well, I am watching two teen boys this week for a friend of ours. They are 13 and 14 and do not have the best parental figures in the world. The 14 year old doesn't seem to want to follow rules and isn't always made too. Yesterday he didn't come home from school on the bus like he was supposed to, so I searched for him and found him and made him come home. He thought that he should still get to go to a ball game, but I would not let him. He was so mad! Then for punishment I made him write sentences that said " I will not disobey my parental authority". He said sentences, am I five. My response was if you act like it, I will treat you like it.
Have you ever made your kids write sentences for doing something wrong? My kids have both done it and my oldest done a lot of them.
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4 responses
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
11 Jan 12
I haven't had that issue where I had to make any kids write things as a form of punishment. I have a very young child of my own but other kids I've cared for and taught I have never had to do that. I'm pretty scare personality wise so kids tend to listen right away but teens tend to be a bit more disobent then your kids. I have always taken something that they liked away for a time depending on what they did depends on when they get back. Maybe in the future I'll use it if something else doesn't work. But agree if a child even a teen that is under someone's authority they should listen and obey and if they don't they should be treated the way they act.
@carolscash (9492)
• United States
11 Jan 12
I took something away too. I took his ability to go and do whatever he thinks is appropriate away. He knows I mean business now. I won't play his games with him. I am strict about stuff and I expect him to listen and obey.
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
11 Jan 12
Wow...sounds like you have your hands full.
I don't remember making my children write sentences but I remember doing it when I was little and in school. That was the thing for teachers back then.
I think it is a good way to reinforce an idea...a discipline. I don't know why I haven't made my children write sentences before now that I think about it. I might have to remember that if my 13 year old breaks any rules
@carolscash (9492)
• United States
11 Jan 12
I do have my hands full, but I think that I got my point across to not mess with me this week. He apologized to me and said that he was being stupid. I really care about these boys and they don't really have a parental authority, but they know now that I will hunt them down and I wish punish them.
@kalav56 (11464)
• India
11 Jan 12
Never. I had never done anything of the sort when I was a kid; similarly there was no question of meting out this to my child. I would say a firm "no' kindly in a "no nonsense" tone and this practice started even before he was two or so. So, there was no need to enforce anything. He would just fall in line .
@carolscash (9492)
• United States
11 Jan 12
It is great that he obeys like that. However, these kids do not have good role models and so they really don't know what it is like to be punished. He was so mad,but I did get an apology and he did tell me that he was being stupid.
@tinker_bel (297)
• Philippines
11 Jan 12
hi there!
i havent tried it yet however i have seen it in school. back in grade school one of our classmate didnt make his assignment so our teacher ask him to write i will make my assignment a hundred times on the board.
anyway i also heard that some are asking the kids to write that they would never do something bad again by their parents.
i think this is a great way to punish kids because it doesnt only help them remember their wrong doings but it also help their writing skills :)
@carolscash (9492)
• United States
11 Jan 12
I don't know about the writing skills as my oldest probably wrote more sentences that you can imagine, but she still has horrible handwriting. However, it makes them think about what they did.
