I am way past that age, thus at this point I listen to friends and family having to punish their own kids.

But, since there are so many of you young whipper-snappers, the question still seems a good one:


Do you ever get grounded by your parents, and when you do, what sort of punishment do you usually receive? Sent to the corner? Locked in your room? All of your electronics taken away?


I grew up in a time when cell phones didn't exist and the best home gaming machines were an ATARI 2600 or Nintendo, punishing me wasn't at all the same impact as it would be for most of you. I was sent to my room or not allowed to play on the computer which, at that time, you are talking about having only games with almost no moving graphics like text games. I was only one the computer a few minutes on any given day anyway. I would sit in my room and just work on something else like a puzzle. Spankings were worse than being grounded and sent into solitude.

I was never "grounded" as a kid. Yeah, I'd get yelled at and get a night of television or something taken away, but my parents never tried to lock me in my room.

I agree with TJ. It was a bit more.... extreme in terms of taking away T.V. and whatnot, but I was never sent to stay in my room really. 

Never been grounded. Always got the belt, and also had video games taken away and no TV. Really didn't go out much when I was young. Wasn't much to do where I used to live.

Well when I was little we had no computers or games. So we were sent to our room. We couldn't sleep, read, or listen to music. We also could not eat the next meal. If we were really bad and got our dad upset he would throw one of our toys away.