[grey_whiskers]

The single most effective way to discipline your children -- especially if they are teenagers, is not lectures, not grounding them, nor taking away their electronic devices or phones.

Threaten to sing in front of them. Or, in extreme cases, in front of their friends.

It NEVER fails.

Cheers!

[momtothree]

I have a friend whose daughter begged for a thong (because the other girls were wearing them). The pestering continued till the point that my Mom-friend said, “Here’s the deal. You can wear a thong ONLY if I wear one and I pick you up everyday. I’ll walk to your school wearing a top and thong only”. Needless to say, the girl re-thought her idea. I asked my Mom-friend what would have happened if the daughter said “deal”. She said “then all of her little friends would have seen me and my fat butt cheeks”. LOL!

[RandallFlagg]

Heh! I’ll have to remember that.

[Maceman]

I used to keep my then fifth grader in line by threatening to do the Moonwalk in the school lobby in front of her friends. (Note: I cannot do the Moonwalk at all).

But all I had to was put my right foot behind my left foot, and she would try to rush me out of the building. It seemed to be the only way I could get her away from her friends when I picked her up.