Comments on: Friday Happy Hour: Creative Punishments

By: Bobbi S

Bobbi S — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:45:00 +0000

I was a stubborn little kid and when I would act up my mom used to make me stand in a corner, hands behind my back, on tip toes, nose to the wall. After awhile it would start to hurt BAD and I would stop mouthing off (for the day at least). Needless to say my calves are extra strong now.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:22:04 +0000

I would like to see info on Ani DiFranco or Alanis Morrissette.

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:30:04 +0000

One of the best punishments I’ve heard of was given out to my friend’s younger brother. He was a bit of a troublemaker in high school so every time he’d get in trouble his parents would make him cut his hair. His hair was his “thing” in high school. He had very curly hair and HATED it to be short.

By: johnschaffer

johnschaffer — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:57:59 +0000

In the child care facility I managed, we used to have a couple that worked really well. Some thought it was odd, but it was effective and respectable.

1. Save the holes from you paper puncher and put them in a Dixie cup. When a behavior needed modified, offer the choice of doing the recommended action or the choice of “Picking up Dots”. Picking up Dots; pouring the Dixie cup of paper holes onto an area of the floor where the child then proceeds to pick them up one at a time and put it back in the cup. If at any point they pick up more than one at a time, pour the cup out and start over.

2. Circles. Pick a sheet of paper, that is appropriate for the level of “punishment” and draw a circle in the corner of the sheet. The child must fill the sheet of paper with circles of the same size or smaller WITHOUT looping (must be individual circles).

This was very effective, and after a period of time, most of the children that commonly needed behavior modification, only needed the choices presented to them in order to get the desired behavioral results.

:-)

By: Janice

Janice — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:36:52 +0000

My two brothers and I were raised on a sailboat and we were each punished by having to go sit out in the dingy at the end of a 25 foot line, while under way. No book, no shade, no food, no drink.

By: Janice

Janice — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:33:26 +0000

My two brothers and I were raised on a sailboat and we were punished by being sent to sit in the dingy at the end of a 25 foot line, while under way. No book, no shade, no food, no drink. Sort of like being sent to your room.

By: Janice

Janice — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:30:19 +0000

My two brothers and I were raised on a sailboat and we were each punished by having to sit out in the dingy, at the end of a 25 foot line, for an hour or so while under way. No book, no shade, no food, no drink. Sort of like being sent to your room.

By: sam

sam — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:02:52 +0000

mine’s similar to celeste’s. when we were at the supermarket (or at any other place out in public), and my brothers and i started whining, my mom would whine back at us. without warning, she’d launch into a rant about all the stuff that was bothering HER in the same tone that we had just been using. ‘waaa! i don’t even wanna be buying grooocerieesss right now! but i need to feeeeed my faaaamilyyy! and my kids are making us have to stay here even loooongerrrr cuz they’re whiiiininng! waaaa!’ the results were twofold: it was surprising enough to shut us up for a minute, and by mocking us she’d teach us a lesson, showing us how stupid we looked to everyone else.

By: Hypatia

Hypatia — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:19:02 +0000

This isn’t a parent thing but I had a teacher in high school who had a kid in our class who wandered into class about 15 minutes late (out of a 1 hour class). The classroom was on the 2nd floor and the window opened out onto the roof so the teacher had the kid take a chair out the window and sit out on the roof while he conducted class.

Another time he told all of us he’d be quizzing us on the capitals of the countries in Europe, and when the day came he went down the rows and asked each person for the capital of one of the countries. Two kids didn’t know theirs and hadn’t studied so he had them stand at the front of the classroom with their arms out to their sides and he started stacking books on their hands. He made them hold their arms out like that while he went through another row, and at the end of each row he’d turn and ask the kids another country. When they got it wrong he’d add another book and continue until they finally got one right.

By: ugly steve

ugly steve — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:33:44 +0000

#2. planet express all the way.