Parents Resort to "Digital" Grounding Now As A Disciplinary Tool

In our digital age, even parents have adopted high tech art of family discipline-by snatching cellphones, blocking Facebook pages, pulling the plug on PlayStation.

Even grounding children, in the day and age, has gone digital, it seems. Parents have now adopted the high tech art of family discipline -by snatching cellphones, blocking Facebook pages, pulling the plug on PlayStation.

When Lantha Carley’s high-schooler got a midterm grade report that contained letters of the alphabet that were not A, B or C, she decreed there would be no more Facebook until he delivered a report card with better grades.

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"He lived with no lasting damage," the Washington Post quoted Carley as saying.

"It’s a modern version of grounding," said Richard Weissbourd, a Harvard psychologist and author of ’The parents we mean to be.’

"It’s like taking away a weekend or a couple of weekends. It’s a deprivation of social connections in the same way," he added.

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In a report earlier this year that captured part of the trend, 62 percent of parents said they had taken away a cellphone as punishment, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Parents "know how important and vital it is to their teens’ existence," said the report’s co-author Amanda Lenhart.

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"They were getting them where it hurt," she added.

Source-ANI

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