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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 15 year got into trouble for pretty much the first time since Kindergarten.  I think the last time I needed to "punish" him I put him in time out on the living room couch for 5 minutes since he was 5 years old.  But this offense warrants something a little more than 15 minutes on the couch.

So, I'm curious what "grounding" looks like in your house.  What specifically do you disallow or take away?  If you're out of the house for part of the time, how do you enforce it?  How does it end (e.g. you're grounded for 2 weeks, or you're grounded until you . . . )?

Thanks!

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DD got into pretty serious trouble, including a suspension from school, in October.  She was restricted to home for the rest of the year, with minimal exceptions made to allow her to spend time with friends that we knew and trusted not to engage in the type of activities that got DD grounded.  In addition, we reset all of her social media passwords so she had to ask to go online, which we only allowed in our presence and to ask classmates homework questions, etc.  She was also only allowed to use her cell phone in our presence, and we checked her texts regularly.  When we weren't around, neither was her phone.

There was a lot of whining and drama, but it was effective.[/quote]

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