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Originally Posted by Firestormalpha
I take it your parents were never to big on discipline then?
Honestly the Mom paid for the car, laid down the rules. Obviously her son doesn't like it, but he was clearly raised in an environment where parental authority is enforced. Not nearly enough of that going on these days. And then parents want to blame the gov., schools, TV, and video games for their kids getting in trouble.
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<--- Age. I look forward to the point in my life where I can talk about how my parents "were" anything, as opposed to "are".
My parents are plenty strict, though I rarely do anything to warrant getting disciplined over. I'm all for parents enforcing rules; I've had too many friends screw up their lives already because their parents didn't care enough until it was too late.
However, as someone who is the same age as the boy in question, my opinion is that this kind of thing is WAY over the top. Barring some sort of history here, in which a large punishment is warranted, it seems like the parent in question has some serious issues. She's getting satisfaction and popularity out of publicly humiliating and heavily punishing her child. To me, thats not just discipline, thats escalation. I'd be driven more than ever to directly rebel against that sort of control if I were him.