Most unusual punishment your parents used?

[lorrir]

I had a house full of teenagers during the summer. None of them drove and we lived miles from anywhere. I felt that idle hands would find trouble so I made them each pick up a bucket of rocks each day.

We lived in a new home in an old pasture settting. We had 4 acres of rocks. Every day each one of the kids (3) had to show me their rock pile.

Later I learned they just picked up the same bucket of rocks and moved it. (like I said idle hands find trouble)

I once threw a box of frozen vegetables at my daughters who were fighting over a swimsuit on a day we were expecting a huge dinner party. To this day they joke, "don't piss mom off she'll throw a box of vegetables at you".

God help all Moms.

 

[Nupine]

My older sister was very, very lazy. She would lay in bed with tons of fleece on all day if she could. She couldn't care less about getting her license to drive, hanging out with friends, or anything usual teens do. So when she was asked a question and wouldn't answer [it could be any question at all, she was very strange with this] mom would make her walk up and down the stairs like 50 times, to her this was like a months worth of work.

 

[eggsrcool]

Sat at the bottom of the stairs for an hour, with nothing to do

 

[calicokat]

Nothing too creative happed to me, but we've made up a few good ones for our kids.

If they slammed a door, we'd make them come back & open and close it "nicely" 20 times

ALso, when they were little, they wouldn't keep their toys picked up in thier room. I'd made bins for each thing like LEGOS, Barbies, Dress up clothes, etc. It was the simplest system ever. We'd cleaned up together lots and lots to reinforce what goes where, but if I turned my back - they'd totally trash that room in one after noon. We told them that if they couldn't take care of their stuff, they'd lose it.

Sure enough - one day they woke up and had NO TOYS WHATSOEVER! I'd come in during the night and trash bagged everything (THey are VERY heavy sleepers, LOL) THey were told that they had to keep their beds made - that's all they had. If they did that for a week, they could have 2 toys back Pick up and put those away when your done playing each day & your bed made for another week, you can have 2 more. My son picked his LEGOs and wooden trains first, DD picked her baby dolls and dress ups.

A friend of mine would take one toy away as a punishment for misbehaving. What's funny is, in order to be sure she got that kid's favorite at the time, she'd ask said child what their favorite toy was --- and the silly gooses would answer, truthfully!!

Another friend flipped the breaker in her teen daughter's room as a punishment for big infractions! Drove the girl crazy, no hair dryer, cd player, etc. LOL!

 

[PlymouthRocker]

A friend of mine would stop doing her high school kids' laundry as their punishment. When that didn't work, then she would turn off the water to the washing machine and padlock the spigot. She'd put the date of unlocking the spigot on the fridge to count down the days, and if they continued their rebellion, she'd add more days. She wouldn't drive them to the laundromat or pay for their washers and dryers.

 

[Camelot Farms]

Calico....my folks used the 'open and close it' 20 times thing on us and if we stomped or ran in the house we would have to WALK back and forth 20 or 30 times.

My kids are sooo lucky! lol

Back in the 'old days' my Great Grandparents used to punish my grandmother and her brothers by making them kneel on popcorn kernals. Can you imagine?

Once again....my kids are soooo lucky.

 

[Melissakins]

My folks would make us run around the house so many times if we were being bad. Wore you out

We didn't have a TV for a long time so that one wouldn't work, but after we DID get a TV, they'd allow us only 8 hours of TV a WEEK, they didn't care how we'd use that time, but it was done to try to teach us that bickering over who had control over the remote would result in quite limited time of watching TV.

If we didn't clean our rooms, my mom too would remove our toys. Same with laundry. Leave your clothes out, they'd go away

You had to pay to get them back.

As a young 20 something, my parents decided to let me stay out as long as I wanted to, but I couldn't sleep the next day, no naps, no snoozes, nothing...Ugh..that taught me a lesson..well, sort of.....

Oh and there was no wait til Dad gets home, Mom doled out punishments as they were needed.

I'll never forget this and never did it again....we were on our way to the library one afternoon - I'm an AVID reader, so this was a huge thing, to get new books. My mom said, don't take your seatbelts off until the car is parked and turned off. HAH I knew better

We pulled into the parking lot, off comes my seatbelt. She said, is that your seatbelt I heard? I said Yes. She said what did I tell you? I mumbled, to not take our seatbelts off til the car was parked. What did you do? She asked? Took it off I replied....what did I say would happen? That we'd go home....she put the car in reverse and we went home. I NEVER did that again.

I work with a lot of, 'wait til your dad gets home folks' and folks who say NO to their kids but the kids do it anyway and they keep saying no, but no actions follow the "threats". I just think of what my mom said and how effective that one time worked......

 

[raroo]

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LOL!

That's a good one!

 

[Lady_Cluck]

When my brother or I would throw a temper tantrum and not calm down, my parents would put us in the bath tub and turn the cold shower on. Boy did that work. From then on, all they had to very calmly say was, "If you don't cool down, you'll get a cold shower." Only happened to me ONCE that I recall! I behaved from then on!

 

[MaggieRae]

Um... When I was 4, I got grounded from Lion King for 3 days when I accidentally scared the cat off the patio (2 stories up). He was fine, but it took us 4 days to catch him. After that I had nothing to do with the cat till' we moved to a house with a ground floor.

I've also had the 'no pleasure reading' treatment.

My parents make me drive home from the lake one minute for every time my rooster crowed that morning. I really hate driving, but I need the practice so I can get my license.