ok my mom & dad enforced these stupid rules and said "we need to have peace in this house" and i'm 13 and if we disobeyed the rules then you get "time out'' :o anyways i got an hour of time out for some reason and at the end of my hour she walked in to tell me time my time is up but 5 minuts earliar i started reading a book and she caught me a nd added another hour and added another hour for "argueing" finally im done and do you think this is stupid tell me what i should do
2007-07-13 12:50:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
sounds like you are immature and the punishment fits the crime.
2007-07-13 13:02:27 · answer #1 · answered by Christina V 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
wow, i'm really sorry about your situation. your parents sound a little extreme, indeed. i'm not sure exactly what your'e doing to anger them...but even so, time out is such an ineffective way to teach children lessons. i wish parents would start communicating with their children more instead of just shutting them up and sticking them into corners whenever they need a break. i really think that some parents are just obsessed with punishing. some sort of power trip.
it's true that you're still pretty young and that obedience is still expected of you, but time out as a punishment is pretty..degrading, even for a kid. everyone deserves some dignity.
ignore what some people are telling you; they're ignorant in thinking that parents are 100% right all the time and that the kids just need to shut the hell up. people need to understand things from a young person's point of view too. they're living beings and they're entitled to feeling frustrated. just shutting kids up all the time will not solve any situation.
2007-07-13 17:55:33 · answer #2 · answered by findpolaris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I think it's a very ineffective and rather foolish way to deal with a 13 year old.
Clearly there is something going on at your house....why does she say there needs to be peace? Are you fighting with someone? Are there lots of kids? You are old enough to know when you are not behaving the way you should and your mom should not have to resort to such things to get you to do what YOU KNOW is right. You should be big enough to make good decisions.
Your mom sounds like she's either overwhelmed and doesn't really know what to do, or she really thinks this is working....she should really ask a professional for some help.
2007-07-13 13:08:23 · answer #3 · answered by lady_phoenix39 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah! I'm 11 (will be 12 on august 14 :P) and my mom knows time out wont work for us. She just says go to your room. (which is close enough but she just doesn't want to deal with us lol) And, my little brothers get time out rarely.. Time out barely works for my 4 year old brother, let alone the 5 year old.
I think you should try talking to your mom. Tell her your 13, and 3 hours of time out is ridiculous! You wanted to read 5 minutes before your time out ended, so what! Reading is good! And besides, time out doesn't work for any kids, usually at least.
I am not saying much different from these other peoplez probably but I think it's the only thing.. So yeahh..
Good luck!!
*~and~*
GOOD BYE TIME OUTS!!! =}
hehez :P
2007-07-13 13:18:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Im 14 and my mom used to the same things.
She would make me stick my nose in the corner just caz i would talk back to her.
Just let me tell u i learned when she planned to put me out side with my nose again the house. I knew that would be embarrassing so i stopped.
you could try talking to her though also.
2007-07-13 13:05:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think if you are a smart boy you will stop jerking your folks around and keep your mouth shut. Hopefully they mean business. My guess is you very well know what it was that you did.
2007-07-13 12:54:48 · answer #6 · answered by tjnstlouismo 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You got time out for reading a book? Yeah, that's stupid. We want our kids to read....don't we?
2007-07-13 13:04:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Talk to your mum. This is ridiculous. Explain to her that you are to old for this poop. But first, stop acting like a child. If shes treating you like one, its probably because your being one.
2007-07-13 12:59:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tell her that you're too freaking old for this bullcrap!!! The next time she mentions it...threaten her with with something like.. "If you continue to do this embarrassing punishment to me,Mom, im gonna kill myself!!!" Or you could become rebellious. I know that most teens nowadays would start a riot if their parents did something like this to them.Man...I feel for ya.
2007-07-13 13:04:09 · answer #9 · answered by Rocquii<3 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
that is stupid their being really unreasonable and your to old to have timeouts
2007-07-13 18:28:48 · answer #10 · answered by laurenjade11 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋