Journal 5

All of the 21st century punishments I think are unfair. Over the course of my life I have been punished many times. I have been spanked especially when I was younger, now I just get my phone taken away or my car if I did something really bad. Just recently I was disrespectful to my mom and I had gotten my phone taken away. I got it taken away for at least a week. I think a fair punishment in the 21st century is just going upstairs into your room and having a 10 minute calm down session. I do not think that it is necessary to take away somebodies phone or even there car for that sake. I think that it is a bad enough punishment to just go upstairs and chill inside while you calm down before you do anything else. I think that parents worry too much about the punishment and my punishment would make it a lot easier for them to punish their child. Parents should not just take away something without having an explanation. My parents do that all the time, they punish me and do not give me an explanation. I guess in their view this blog would be different, but my view is basically like a timeout. It's not exactly like a timeout because you are just having time for yourself. You are not getting punished it's just getting used to yourself. Especially when a teenager gets angry they can say anything and that anything could make you cry or feal bad. Mostly, a teenager will not want to go to their room and take a rest. That is the only thing that could go wrong with this punishment. With teenagers they do not want to go up to their room and sit and do nothing. Especially coming from me because I do not like going on to my room and doing nothing. Again coming from my view this blog was very one-sided it was my view on a fair punishment, but it would definately be different if a parent would of written this not a student like me. I think that ten minutes of down time is a fair punishment.