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[quote=Anonymous]This thread is crazy, and I suspect largely filled with the responses from parents of younger children.

OP, you certainly have every right to have taken the phone, and your daughter was being fairly awful.  BUT (and it is a big but).

1. You set her up.  
You didn't react when this was small.  My words when I don't want my son using his phone at a family event are straightforward.  "Kiddo, please put your phone away now. Tell whoever you need to go and put it away. You can check in later."   Usually he does it, but there was some training to get us there.

You stayed pissed all day and then after all evidence suggests you were fine with her behavior, you dropped the atomic bomb of punishments, without even letting her bow out of the conversation she was in.

2.  What's your goal?  
Teens are tough and they are generally crazy. You aren't going to get a perfectly behaved child that respects you every minute.  If that's the goal I suggest you head to parenting class now.

Anything that you do that results in serious out-of-proportion yelling and drama was probably mishandled and will backfire.

You got obedience, but you will most certainly pay for this.

3.  Hard earned lesson by me: solve any given problem when it is small or WATCH OUT.[/quote]

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