I love it! I hadn’t thought of some of them, but #1 gets used often!

You do understand that in some ways these are all just creating a reason to have a potentially permanent split from your teen! As a fifty plus yr old that has no children at home anymore these “punishments” may look good to you, BUT, if you talk to the homeless teens in any big city that are on drugs and selling themselves, most came from regular homes. You can easily create a situation in the home, by being a total jerk, that makes a reasonably rebellious teen into a runaway. PLEASE DO NOT DO ANYTHING YOU WILL REGRET LATER ! These “comments” by Steve may be amusing, they are not all actionable, the porn should be deleted, the use of the internet restricted, but please use caution and do not go overboard. If your teen is out of control get council from a professional, don’t just escalate ! Remember a teen brain is in the midst of “rewiring”, don’t cause them to wire themselves out of your life.

I personally like the idea of going into your child’s World of Warcraft account control and setting the parental controls to block usage for certain periods of time.

I am positive you could set it to block 24/7 periods of time.

The Parental Controls have their own password, so it is secure as long as you do not allow yourself to use your known passwords.

It’s along the lines of blocking the IP in the router.

Funny article, but back in real life, No.

Read Proverbs, in the bible. God gave you those kids and can help you raise them, if you’ll listen and learn. Of course, concepts from other books of the bible are very useful, but absorbing them requires a considerable investment in time and humility.

If that’s still not enough, read “Dare to Discipline” by Dr. Dobson. While that book is targeted to younger kids, the concepts (for those with agile minds) can be re-worked to apply to teenagers, also.

BTW, the reason the discipline above is guaranteed NOT to have any lasting impact is because it has the effect of petty vindictiveness, not loving correction and instruction.

In other words, you’re liable to make your children angrier rather than thoughtful.

Have an even simplier solution that will solve the problem with any teenager…don’t have kids in the first place. As long as you have yourself “fixed” or never get married or have a girlfriend/boyfriend…this is a non-issue.

Dogs & cats will love you no matter what & will never cause the issues even a toddler will cause you. Plus…they won’t need a PC or an IPod. Problem solved & you get peace of mind.

Ok, some of that stuff is just plain evil. Setting limitations and boundaries is one thing, but being malicious like that is just wrong. I have raised two teens, and making them your friends is far better an approach than making them your enemies.

Absolutely AWFUL suggestions! Punishments that work are immediate and short whereas these types of punishments are just massively stupid and destructive! These sound like the ideas of the idiot who throws away his child’s legos rather than simply confiscating them for awhile. I’ve seen this - the child doesn’t learn - he just learns to hate and do without. A child who respects his parents will probably hold their values when they’re not around. The child of an idiot like the author here will rebel against his warden in every way he can and exclude him from his life. Look elsewhere for parenting advice.

I love them! I searched creative punishments because I love to be creative. I have warned my son that he need not turn this in to a battle. i love him and he is a great kid. But I am NO JOKE. He should not dismiss me. I dont have tons of rules and none of my expectations are unreasonable. If we have a failure to communicate, I just have to try harder to get my point across. His most recent flirtation with irresponsibilty got him a 500 word paper on what it means to “be cool”, An analysis of virtues, translation of a list of virtues into Spanish, and a powerpoint presentation based on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. And while all of that was being worked on I changed his MySpace password and together we changed his MySpace headline to say “GROUNDED” Make rules you can enforce and make sure the punishments are felt! GO PARENTS!!

As much as I like the punishments listed, there are too many other places for my fiance’s teen to go where she can still abuse the heck out of whatever she wants. I don’t want to give up on her, but she has a “I don’t care”, “I’m not listening to either of you”, and “I am going to do whatever I want and there is nothing you can do about it” attitude. So any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,

JD

that is the stupidest thing i ever heard of in my life! (no offense) my parents would never do that to me (then again, me and my parents get along real good…..never fight……im kind of a goody two-shoes). i do whatever i want. you would have quite an a**hole to do that to your kid. kids already have it pretty hard these days..believe me! and lots of kids are already depressed..its true……if you do that to them they will only not listen to you even more! they will hate you! personally…to settle out issues with your kids…i think you should all calmly talk to each other and maybe ask them if anything is bothering them or what the reason is why theyre doing whatever theyre doing. theres a reason for everything afterall! Talk calmly to them and figure a solution that will not only make you happy but them happy as well. Instead of doing cruel things that only will hurt them and you (because they will hate you for this and this will make your relationship worse)…..talk to them and settle out your differences. This way you will (hopefully) improve your relationship between you and your child………+ you wont do anything you may regret ! cause doing these 10 punishments to them is basicially bullying. Remember they are ready under alot of stress and peer pressure. life is extremely hard for teenagers..not easy

What are you kidding? Funny as a joke but in real life? Thats not discipline that’s bullying and any kid that’s subjected to it has every right to hack into YOUR account and add porn so your wife finds it!

Yes these are vile, disgusting ridiculous punishments. Of course there is not only the hate aspect of it all, but there are some of use out here, whom if you would have used that, would just up and kill you, you know? like murder? Believe me, I’ve tried. attempted to burn them to death three times, I thought the third time would have been a charm but apparently not. You should rethink your strategy, and deserve to be shot, stabbed, poisoned, burned, drawn and quartered, castrated, hung, and then finally ground into a salty, bloody pulp, under thousands of pounds of pressure, and to used as a puree, for a drink. For your sake I hope that isn’t your real name Steve. It could make for easy tracking and a perfect target.

These “parenting” techniques are highly suggested if you hope to have your child cut all ties with you when they reach the age of 18, if not sooner.

best of luck!

Wow, did someone actually quote the bible when it comes to parenting? You mean to say the same book which tells the niceties of selling your own daughter into sexual slavery and promotes stonings? I sincearly hope that this would never be used as a source for parenting help. Honestly the list is funny, and some of them a good idea, but most are just silly. Here’s an idea, hold kids responsible for their actions.

this is absurd and does not make any sense whatsoever

I would hate you if you were my parent.
Not respect.
Not even dislike.
Hate.

these are very very affective pushments i am a teen n i would stop misbehaving as soon as my parents did it 2 me not that i wont them 2 but they are surver and would definatly work

I think that a couple of the punishments are a little harsh, but I agree with some-the last one especially. I have a younger sister that I see going down the same path that I went on and I’m trying so hard to steer her from it. I actually suggested the last punishment “Take all their favorite clothes and donate them to the Salvation Army, leaving them only with uncool dress clothes”-but mainly for the purpose for her to clean up her wardrobe of all the shirts and skirts that are 3 sizes too small. I’m 20, married, and have a 13 month old baby-believe me, I wish my mom would have implemented certain punishments similar to these.

so i read the ways to discipline your children and i have a 13 year old brother. ou mother has tried all of those and nothing is working. and i mean NOTHING. she doesnt believe in spanking/hitting. he is always rude to her and we dont know what to do. anybody have any suggestions?

Spare the rod, spoil the child. It’s not your job to be your childs friend, it is your job to be their parent. Reward good behavior, punish bad behavior. Simple as that. BE CONSISTENT and FOLLOW THROUGH. An empty threat is useless. Here is an example of one disciplinary method I used with my teen (only had to do it once!):
My son decided to slam his bedroom door. I calmly walked into his room and explained that if he slammed ANY door again, that I would remove his bedroom door all together. I explained that this would eliminate all of his privacy and to seriously think about it. He decided to test me and slammed his door again. I simply and calmly acquired the hammer and screwdriver, removed the pins from the door hinges and took his door. It remained off until he demonstrated nothing but good behavior for a consecutive 2 weeks. Needless to say, he earned his door back and has never slammed a door again.
I have many creative and effective methods such as this that have not failed to yield the correct results.
I also reinforce good behavior from my son with “surprise” rewards. I do not allow him to expect something for every good deed he does, but rather, occassionally I will give him a “surprise” for having done so well.
I hope that this helps!

this is ridicuous. There are ways to punish your teen without ruining their life. A more acurate title for this webpage would be “Ways to make your teenager hate you.” REMEMBER: YOUR TEENAGER IS STILL LEARNING. GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO LEARN THEIR LESSON BEFORE YOU JUMP TO SUCH DRAMATIC PUNISHMENTS.

Steve,
First of all are you a parent?
If things that were important to you were taken or given away how would you react?
Imagine you are about to sit down and watch some sporting event final only to realize the T.V. no longer works. You discover your partner has eliminated access to the channel. How do you feel? How do you react? Does this work? Probably not.
Your suggestions show traits of a contoling person.
The only thing that you will achieve by carrying through these actions is more resistance and major disrespect of you as a person, in the eyes of your child. What I believe everyone in this world needs are courses on good communication skills and these should be taught throughout school just like a math or English class.
Remember the very important life saying, “treat others the way you wish to be treated.”

hey i thought that those ideas are mean and embarasment is NOT the way to go especially the take all there cool cloths to leave them with uncool cloths or change thier myspace tops to really dorky people then change thier password is mean and it should not be used on your teen and the delete all your contacts thing is stupid because the people that they call most often ya they have thier numbers memorized

The fact that so many parents think the ideas are awful must mean they will work. I am a parent of 3 teenagers. And just the threat alone of wiping out a saved game was enough for my son…I didnt have to do it. The other parents state that the teen will hate you for it, not learn from it, and we would not want to be treated that way. But think of how You(parent) are being treated when your teen is not where they say they are, not respecting household rules…The purpose of discipline is to change the negative behavior. Kids have to recognize that all those things are priviledges not rights. When you mis behave you lose priviledges. Since when do they have a ‘right’ to MySpace?