Blog #5 21st Century Punishment

I think that a fair twenty-first century punishment is taking away the things that kids need and focus on the most. Kids focus on facebook a lot and now they are also focusing on twitter. Taking away facebook and twitter for awhile is a big punishment to kids and young adults because that is a main way they talk with their friends and keep up with what their friends are doing. Another punishment is taking away cell phones too. The cell phones are a main part of kids lives, especially teenagers. When teens do not have their cell phones, it causes a lot of issues. They become very mad and rebel against their parents. Without their cell phones they cannot talk to their friends and access their twitter and facebook also. I would not really know what a twenty-first century punishment is because I do not get in trouble all that much. I know that if my parents took away my technology I would be very mad. Also my parents do threaten to take away my car at times. If they were to actually take my car away, I would have to ride the bus to school, and I would not be able to do anything extra outside of school. It would also suck because then my parents have to come pick me up from poms everyday. Even though they have threatened it, they have never actually done it. I think that grounding teens does not really do much anymore because they still have some freedoms. I think the most effective way of punishing kids and teens is to take away what they enjoy the most. For teens, take away her freedoms and their communication with friends. For kids, take away their extra activities, like the wii and the x-box. If you take away what they enjoy the most, they will most likely not screw up again because they do not want their things taken away again.