- Brought home a report card in which the highest grade was a B, which was in PE, and the core classes weren't up to her fullest potential.
- Didn't attend her sister's recital.
- Slept through church, when her sister played the voluntary to close two services. And the pièce de résistance...
- Got kicked out of the church youth group last night.
The repercussions?
- No cell phone
- No computer access (all passwords were changed last night) except for schoolwork which will be proctored by Yours Truly
- No walking home from school with friends
- If she stays after school with a teacher, she brings a note from the teacher.
For how long?
- Until the next progress report showing improvement in her grades, or
- Until the next report card showing improvement in her grades, or
- Until her rude behavior towards parental units changes, or
- Until her 21st birthday.
Whichever comes first.
As I told the youth minister last night after he called me to pick her up, I could really use one of his Mint Juleps.
Oh my. Is this a new phase? Remember I don't get to experience these moments of parental joy.
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I was surly for three weeks when I was fourteen. At the end of the third week my parents, who by then were sick of me, told me I had one more week to change my attitude or they'd change it for me. What? Throwing down a gauntlet to a moody teenager? Sooooo...at the end of the fourth week when my attitude hadn't changed, they sure enough kept to their word. Mother held me down and Daddy whipped me with a belt. The first time EVER in my LIFE. It was like shock treatment. I sure hated to give in but I did... I'm not suggesting this AT ALL, you just triggered a memory.
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