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[quote=Anonymous]OP- there’s a balance you have to strike here that has a lot to do with who you and your kid are. I’m not in favor of the “take phone away as punishment” default to everything. Then they get it back and what have they learned?  I AM in favor of kids experiencing a sense of shame when they’ve done something s#&tty.  I got called out for passing a note to a friend in eighth grade where I said something mean about another friend, the teacher intercepted the note and kept me after class. I still remember how terrible that felt and she was absolutely right to hold me accountable for what I said and what I did. In your case, taking the phone away may make sense since this was phone specific activity and the picture thing is really problematic. But you can’t punish a kid just for being a jerk, teenagers are jerks to each other. So I think what you need is to have, a truly serious conversation with your kid and really expressed disappointment in how they’ve conducted themselves. They need to feel bad about this. Whether or not you decide to “punish” I think as much less important.[/quote]

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