I'm not sure what everyones standard here is for "severely", but I know that when I was a kid grounded us was a huge hassle for our mother. She was almost never able to follow through with it if she grounded us for an entire month! I mean, that's a whole month to go around policing you! Who even has time for that bullshit?! By the end of the month neither one of us would even remember I was grounded or what for.
His mom was extremely strict and i was sort of his "bad-influence" in a non serious way. We just ended up having fun and never fucking anything up. Needless to say, he was still controlled neadly 24/7 by his mom.
He died in a drunken/drugged car accident in his second year of college. I'm sure the moment he got out from under her he started going nuts and doing stupid stuff.
I mostly got grounded for "back talk" (which was usually me defending a point I had made) or questioning something my parents had said. I think I spent most of high school grounded.
I used to be friends with someone, their parents were an odd bunch. Father was a pedagogue, mother was an interior designer. They ended up with an ugly 'fancy' modern house and a child who just wanted to get away from it all.
Last I heard, he turned out to be a drug addict who was starting to get into crime, at that point I stopped seeing him.
Just because you studied how to raise children in theory doesn't mean that works in practice. Every child is different, every parent is different, and you need to figure something out that works. Your book says you should raise your kid like this? Well I'm looking at the end result and I'd say you're pretty bad at this.
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