<p>guilt guilt</p>
<p>AlinHappyLand - You're me. </p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>no punishment</p>
<p>generally i don't get it too bad...but when i get them ****ed, they'll find some way to embarass me in front of my friends. They kno i can't stand those awkward moments with parents/peeps..gah</p>
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If I did something serious like get suspended or sneak out of the house, they would ship me off to Nigeria so that I can go to boarding school there where the teachers can still beat their students-this has already happened to some friends.
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<p>Sounds like that Tranquility Bay place or whatever it's called. They kidnap you in the middle of the night, put you on the first plane to Jamaica, and then they do weird things to you there. Probably some kind of scam to cheat frustrated parents out of their money.</p>
<p>I know its late but</p>
<p>runpunk, its 'somebody's gonna get a hurt real baddd!' Russel Peters</p>
<p>Asian parents, don't really do much unless I get anything below an A-
watch crazy asian mother on youtube and laugh your a** off</p>
<p>They'll kick me out whenever I do anything illegal at home. Other than that, I bear the real consequences for my actions.</p>
<p>it depends on what i do really. if i do something really stupid, then they'll just tell me that i've done something stupid, and that i need to correct me. i don't really get "punished" anymore.</p>
<p>no allowance for me for a month! because some idiot broke my glasses and iddn't pay so my parents deducted it from my allowance :(</p>
<p>My parents take away money.</p>
<p>they can't.
they realize they don't have control over me anymore. lol</p>
<p>they don't do anything, really. ever.. i've never been grounded. i never have to clean my room or whatever. every now and then, when i say something snotty or whatever, my mom will disconnect the internet and take the moden away. but that's just when she's mad at me personally.</p>
<p>it's great because i can joke w/ my mom and stuff. she's really laid back and this.. laissez fair policy has really worked out... i'm very, very responsible and mature, and i do things on my own that other parents make their kids do. i fend for myself and i'm really self-motivated, because i haven't had someone who ordered and chauffered me around a la helicopter.</p>
<p>They used to confiscate my stuff. When I was little, they took away toys, my sticker collection, etc. Sometimes they would ground me, but they never followed through with it. I'd get back my TV or internet privileges back the next day or two, but they might keep my stuff for longer.</p>
<p>Nowadays, I just get the yelling and snippy behavior for a couple of days afterward. Occasionally, they use the we're-so-disappointed-but-we-hope-you-get-the-best-out-of-life-anyway card, which makes me feel terrible.</p>
<p>In any case, I'm amazed at and envious of the couple of people who said they're never punished by their parents. My entire family's stubborn, so we all get fired up easily. It doesn't help that my dad's really peculiar about some things. (Today, he yelled at me for using the wrong bowl. We have these two bowls that have the same pattern, except one's just slightly chipped, and I used that one - my mother's - instead of my own, the unchipped one.)</p>
<p>forty lashes</p>
<p>Wow... I was going to post a description of my parents and their interesting policies... but Demeter did it for me. My parents act the EXACT SAME WAY! They even get extremely annoyed by seemingly unimportant things... like the chipped bowl issue that Demeter described. Reading that post was like reading a page from my diary... except I've never kept a diary (excluding 2nd grade, when I went through a Harriet the Spy phase and observed all of my friends =D)... but you know what I mean. I hope.</p>
<p>Hmm...honestly, I've never really been punished. I don't give them any reason to. Respect comes first in our house. I respect my parents for the work they do to give me and my sister a good life and a good education, and in turn, they respect me for the work that I do (school and around the house). They work all the time, so I guess we just value the little time that we do all get to hang out as a family. They're involved in my life, but I try not to give them too much information...I don't want them to worry when they have other stuff on their minds, and the system works. Everyone does their part and I still manage to have a social life and it's pretty good :)</p>