This morning, Caroline and I went to church because she wanted to wear her new dress. I made a deal with Jack this summer that we would go to church two weekends and stay home two weekends. Today was to be our first Sunday at home, but Caroline got a new Sunday dress so she and I went to show off her new dress. Jack left home about 9 am and went to play at the twins house (that's what we affectionately call them). They have been out of town for a week, which I have to say has been nice because Jack has been around more.
Well, when I got home from church, I was supposed to pick up Jason and Jack so we could go to lunch. I sent Caroline down to go get Jack, and when he came home he was a completely different child than he was this week. I learned that Jack and the twins had played a video game and I can only surmise that it was a T or M (Teen or Mature) game. Those games are usually geared more for children that (theoretically speaking) can handle it. Jack was so mean and disrespectful it was awful.
Jason and I decided to enact a different kind of grounding. We decided that since it was the last week of summer vacation, it wouldn't be totally fair to ground him in the truest sesnse of the term. So our ground rules for the grounding would be that he could play with the twins (or anyone for that matter) as long as it was at our house or in the front yard. You see the two other children he plays with also have gaming systems and their parents let them play T or M games. The little boy who lives next door often doesn't go to bed until 2 or 3 in the morning, so there's not much supervision over there.
So as a result of the new age grounding, I've got four boys over at my house on top of the two kids I've already got. Two of them are playing in the toy room with Jack's Xbox 360, one is watching Monster's Inc that Jason put in, and the rest are playing Mario and Sonic Olympics on the Wii. I can't complain because I basically asked for it.
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"Little Man" down the street gets snippy QUICK! He is one of those starring in his own movie with the rest of us being the support cast."The Twins" are pretty aggressive toward one another outside. Did you see them yell at one another and then go WWF on one another! WOW!! Jack and the rest of the boys were just looking at them.
This is why it is so tough to be a parent. 99.9 percent of the discipline punishes you as much as the kids. I can understand why parents let kids get away with so much stuff because it's tough to actually parent, in the active-verb sense. I don't respect those parents, particularly, but I get it. So, I'm really proud of you guys for sucking it up and, in a productive way, showing the kids that there are consequences when they make decisions. And, that's pretty creative and well-balanced thinking on the punishment for this one (even if it means everyone's at Jack's house)!
well, i always like to entertain at home because then i don't have to leave the house:) okay, so, what the...these parents are not responsible. they should be paying you to look after their kids and give them a better environment than they are in!
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