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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Really? You would let your kid talk to you that way? OP- screen would be gone for at least 2 weeks. I may make them stay in this weekend as well.[/quote]

I didn't say I would "let" them - I said I would understand their feelings and correct the way they expressed them.

Both of my kids spoke to me this way exactly once during their teen years without the imposition of any draconian consequences.  They didn't speak to teachers, employers, etc. this way and they didn't regularly speak to me this way.  If they did, the consequences would have been different. They are now fully functioning young adults who happened to have called their parents a bad name one time in the past.[/quote]

I agree with this poster with one caveat. I would make it damn clear to the kid that they just used their ONE and ONLY 'pass' on this where we talk about how this is not acceptable, how its on them to find a way to put anger off them but not onto others, and what real world consequences a could be if you run your mouth off to people you know/love as well as people you don't.

After then. I drop the hammer on privileges. [/quote]

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