Grounding

My biggest advice for this is think before you ground. When you ground a child you ground yourself.

When you ground a child think about the time period, what is happening during that time period and if you can stick to it.

When Jaimie was 13 I grounded her for 6 weeks and it was the hardest 6 weeks of my life. At the time I had a shop and spent alot of time there, it was also the school holidays so I had a very unhappy child with me for 6 weeks (the friend she got in trouble with was given alot more punishments but after 3 weeks the parents caved in).

6 WEEKS - Don't do it. Really truly 1 week maximum learn from my mistake.

When Chloe was 13 (something about that age) I grounded her for two days so much better.