Journal #5

When you say "fair punishment," it almost seems like an oxymoron.   Getting punished never seems fair to the child, because they do not feel like they did anything wrong.  The 21st century consists a lot of online media, online games, and cell phones.  These things make children and teenagers become attached to inanimate objects, which is never a good thing.  In the video, the women never really stated what the punishment really was but said that you should fit the punishment to the crime.  These crimes can be anywhere from back talking and fighting to cheating and stealing.  When I was younger, if I got in trouble I was sent to my room.  Now a days kids have TVs, computers, cell phones, and electronic games all in their room.  Sending a child to their room when they had all these electronics in their room would hardly be a punishment.  What you want to do is instead of sending them to their room, you should take away their electronics.  Taking away these devices will make the child have withdrawals and make them see that if they do the same crime, they will have to live through the "pain" again.  

My mom and dad feel that if we need punished, they will take away the things that we are closet to.  For my brother and youngest sister, it would be the computer.  They are both constantly on the computer playing online games.  It is almost like they do not have a life outside of the computer.  My punishment would be to take away my cell phone.  I love my cell phone and I would say I am attached to it because I do not like to let it leave my sight.  I am not happy that I am that attached to my phone because that means I am focusing more on that than more important things.  

My version of a "fair punishment" would be to take away the cell phones, computers, and gaming systems.  Children and teenagers need to see that their is life outside of technology.