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September 14, 2012 05:04 pm GMT

Strategies for Parents: Using Tech as Consequence


When I was a mostly responsible but occasionally rebellious teenager and resisted household chores or weekend curfews, my Mother would sometimes pull out of her pocket the most dreaded of confrontational sentences. Her eyes would crinkle, her voice would lower to an icy whisper, and she would say, do what I am asking, or the punishment will be (fill in the blank here with your favorite threat.) I knew she was serious. It would usually stop me dead in my tracks.

Now that we live in the age of constantly connected teens, is the new threat at the end of the sentence above some form of technology banishment? Is the consequence of taking away a phone, game controller or comput…
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