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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with the others that you need to address the behavior in the moment. By waiting, your kid felt like you suddenly got mad over nothing, and were penalizing her for whatever your issue was.

I'm wondering if you didn't address it in the moment because you thought it would cause a blow up then, and wanted to avoid that in front of other people? [/quote]

This. Obviously you get to set the rules and consequences as you wish for your minor child living in your home using a device you pay for, but personally I think it is unfair to anyone, children included, to hold them to standards that were never set/communicated in the first place or to retroactively enforce punishment for rules not known at the time of the infraction. If you didn't like her behavior at dinner, why not address it then? She probably assumed it was fine - in her shoes my teens would have. Getting belligerent and hysterical with you surely warrants some consequences, but if I were you I would reconsider how you handled this whole situation before next time something similar comes up.[/quote]

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