Previously on Project Papapalooza:
Hey dads – Adrian here.
My cousin has three kids: 11 year-old twins and a seven year old girl. They’re lovely kids, super smart and well behaved. However, they sometimes inevitably misbehave.
However a few weeks back we were together in the park and the kids got lost in play and went too far away from us parents, away from the boundaries that we had established earlier.
As a result was we had to spend over half an hour searching for them, then we were late for lunch and a series of unfortunate events that followed.
So my cousin put his stern face and said to his children: “okay kids, you’re grounded for three days without screens!”.
And I was half impressed, half shocked: three days without screens? How do you do that?
He stared at me and said:
”Here’s the trick: they can’t do phones or tablets, but they can still watch TV.”
”Why would you do that?” I wondered.
”Because I want to punish them without punishing myself”.
So is punishment effective?
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