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If the PP who went "full rebellion" lost a door, I would venture to guess that was not her parents [i]first [/i]response. She certainly ignored many other efforts to get her attention before they did that. And if nothing else was getting through, then yes, off comes the door.[/quote]

I can't imagine any circumstance where it would ever be appropriate to take someone's door as a response for not picking something up off the floor. You save that for the big stuff. Picking socks up off the floor is not big stuff, even if it's two socks a day every day for years. Plus there isn't even any logical connection between not picking something up off the floor in the living room and getting your bedroom door taken away.[/quote]

I was the poster that went full rebellion. It was because my parents went overboard with piddling shit such as socks on the floor. If you have a good kid that is being a jerk (not picking up socks) and your response is full fledged war (taking off the door for said socks), well then you you are building up a HUGE case for rebellion. [/quote]

I used to think my parents were nit-picky. I'm wondering if this PP has children or teenagers. There are truly a million tiny things that I could let go and I do let 999,999 of them go, so when I ask my kids to pick up their socks and insist they do it, "Right now!" it's because I already picked up their dishes, their garbage, their backpacks, their other socks, their hair items etc etc etc etc etc. It's the tip of the iceburg. Now that I'm a parent, I have so much sympathy for how much crap my parents had to deal with. [/quote]

I do this too with my kids. So I understand. It's the last straw. But a blow-up about the millionth tiny thing is still a blow-up about a tiny thing.[/quote]

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