Should I Be Allowed To Keep My Tv While In Punishment ?

[bigbecky]

as you all know I have been sentenced to 3 weekends imprisonment by my parents for sneaking out to a party, I am only on punishment at weekends because I go to school, this coming weekend I will be locked in my room again, my parents let me keep my pc and tv last time, now they have said I will lose ALL forms of entertainment, I am going to go mad I will be bored out of my head, all I am asking is PLEASE PLEASE can I keep my tv, my parents said no ( SCHOOL BOOKS ONLY )
surly losing my freedom is punishment enough and I should be allowed to keep my tv do you agree ?

[wolf63]

no

[jackthehat]

No.

Please ask them to take away your internet connection, too.

[fiction-factory]

What we think is irrelevant. it's a matter for your family. I support your parents though

[emmie]

you should be locked in the stocks, if you can't behave.

[Neveracrossword]

I definitely don't agree. What difference would it make if I did, thought? Would your parents change things because of AB?

[woofgang]

this is just funny now

[cashier]

No, they should take everything they can away. Read a book, learn to spell, learn to write proper sentences.

[Cloverjo]

If we all said Yes do you think that would change your parents' minds?
It doesn't matter what we think, or what you think. You're being a pain so you're being punished. Get through it and behave better in future.

[mallyh]

if you don 't like the punishment don't do the crimes .you sound like a right little charmer .your poor parents .

[elliemay1]

You would be better paying attention to your school work than posting inane qns on AB

[Mamyalynne]

No surly.

[kvalidir]

No, stop being such an entitled and horrific little goblin. You live in someone else's house and expect to please yourself. I've suggested before you move out if you don't like it, yet here you are, try ( badly) to circumvent the rules.
Take this as a life lesson which could prove useful. soemthing bad is happening to you, so what good can come of it. You have schoolbooks, so read them, be ahead of everyone else when you go back, then you can maximise the free time you do get in the future because you already know what you should be studying. It's called making the best of a bad situation and all of the really really successful people I have ever met know exactly how to do this. And stop whining. I don't care.

[andy-hughes]

Personally I would let you keep your TV, but I am not your parents, and have no concept of what your behaviour is like, and whether or not this sanction is justified.

If you are looking for sympathy and / or backing to argue your case, you are unlikely to find it by appealing to a bunch of adults, many of whom have or have had adolsecent offspring, and are likely to side with your parents.

[spathiphyllum]

I think we need to stop humouring this plead for attention why are you asking us if you can keep your TV? is your parent an answerbank member?

[Kathyan]

If I were you BB I would stop asking questions on here because you are not going to get the answers that you want. You just want us to agree with you and we're not going to do that. You sound like a spoilt brat who wants her own way all the time and if she doesn't get it, stamps her feet until she does. Well, at last, your parents have had enough and the tables have turned and now you have to take your punishment for behaving like the spoilt brat that you are. Change your ways missy or things will get worse, much, much worse!

[spathiphyllum]

Lets humour it why not...

Have you tried talking to your parents like adults, and trying to come to a compromise? Such as, i'll stay in my room, you can have the internet but can i keep the TV for DVDs or something?

Respectful adults will happily reach a compromise.

[bigbecky]

BIG BECKY UPDATE,
my parents lock me in my room because I sneak out when grounded ( I don't do groundings ) even prisoners get tvs in prison, my punishment is hard enough I am having my freedom taken away and being locked up ( WHICH I HATE )
I will not be able to cope with the boredom, so I think I should be allowed tv ?

[cashier]

Why should her parents be respectful to BB, she hasn't shown them any respect?

[spathiphyllum]

"I will not be able to cope with the boredom, so I think I should be allowed tv?"


OK.

[andy-hughes]

Becky - // BIG BECKY UPDATE,
my parents lock me in my room because I sneak out when grounded ( I don't do groundings ) //

You're not getting this are you?

Of course you don't 'do groundings' - it would hardly be a punishment if you did would it!


// even prisoners get tvs in prison, my punishment is hard enough I am having my freedom taken away and being locked up ( WHICH I HATE ) //

Prisoners get TV because they are in prison, which is somewhat different from being 'grounded', and if you think about that for a minute, you can work out the differences for yourself.

// I will not be able to cope with the boredom, so I think I should be allowed tv ? //

But it's not about what you think is it? You don't make the rules, something you seem to fail to grasp.

A punishment is designed to make you think about your behaviour, and avoid doing the same thing again.

If you can't cope with the boredom (and you can, don't be melodramatic) then learn your lesson and behave yourself, including respecting your parents' punishments, so they don't have to escalate them until you learn.

Home and family is a microcosm of the real world. Here you get to make all your mistakes and be punished by people who love you and care about you (hard to believe though that is, it's true - they don't like punishing you, it's not fun for them either) and it's better to learn here and now than out in the wide world, where punishments are a lot less gentle than losing your TV!

Think about what is going on, why, and your part in it.

Take your punishment and learn from it.