would you do this?

mummy2girls wrote: ok i feel bad doing this but we felt she needed to learn her lesson the hard way.... At 7pm we put Jenna and Breanna to bed and then I had to leave to go out. When she first goes to bed we let her play in her room, watch a movie, etc for hgalf hour then we go in there and tell her its bedtime. Well marcus did that and then came back down stairs. It was quiet in there so he just assumed she was asleep. WRONG she decided to not listen and still watch tv And the smart liuttle bugger put headphones into the tv so marcus could not hear it on. I finally got home at 1100pm. Marcus went to check on her and i just did some last minutes things before i headed to bed. He comes downstairs and says..YOUVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!! I said what he says.... She is still awake and watching tv. I said NO WAY! Well it was 1130pm by the time she fell asleep and had to be up at 630am for school. We sent her in to school, we didnt think she should be able to sleep in for that as this was her choice to do this. We think she should go through the day feeling the way she does to teach her a lesson... I called the school and talked to her teacher and told her what happened. and that if she is really struggling that Marcus will pick her up as he works literally behind her school. I still feel bad for doing this. I just feel she should feel the consequence of her decision the hard way. This is the very first time she has ever done this. She always goes to bed after the half hour of winding down in her room with no problems... UGH!!!!!

Am i bad for doing this??

PrairieMom replied: no. absolutely not. I would have sent her to school anyway, and that TV would be g-o-n-e.

boyohboyohboy replied: Goodbye tv and I would also add that I would have reminded my husband that he needed to check physically on our kid...but I have to remind him of that anyway, he is way trusting...

luvbug00 replied: Mya did this a few nights in a row and I took her tv for a month. I would at this point. Take away the tv for one night. And make her do a full day of school, if she says she's tired remind her of why.

Kelly replied: I think that is a perfect idea. I am all for natural consequences.

MommyToAshley replied:
I agree... I would have sent her to school and the TV in the bedroom would be gone.

moped replied: Nope, you totally did the right thing sending her!

Jack did a similar thing with his ds once, and i caught him playing it after i shut the door....he got that taken away in the blink of an eye!

my2monkeyboys replied: I agree with everyone else... school and no tv.

mummy2girls replied:
we disconnected everything from the tv. She cant get cable in her room at all just a vcr is hooked up for her to watch a movie once in a while. so we just disconnected the vcr and she cant watch it now....

mummy2girls replied:
yes i have to admit my first reaction to this was... didnt you check on her?

but she has always gotten into bed after the first time we go up and say half hour is up get into bed. She always does so it was surprise she did this...LOL.

mummy2girls replied:
tv is still in there but nothing si attached or hooked up for her to use it. We took it away for a few days. will return back again and then give her one more chance. if she does it again then goodbye everything.

Me i would of double checked to be honest buts he needs to know that she cant do that.

mckayleesmom replied: Mckaylee and Russell do this every once in a blue moon. They don't have a tv in their room, but they will fiddle fart around and not stay in their beds....I always tell them "you can stay up as late as it takes, but you will be sorry in the morning"....The next day they go to bed on time. Definantly make her go to school...and I definantly wouldn't pick her tushy up. Mckaylee has stayed up way later then that before and I still made her go to school.


On days like that I make a huge deal about how I can't wait till the bus picks them up because I can go back to sleep and they can't... Drives them nuts.


Also...I usually get them in bed at 8 and it usually takes till about 8:30 for them to fall asleep...so I point out the numbers on the clock. If it gets to 8:30 or past....they get upset because they know they will be tired in the morning.

kimberley replied: i agree with Tara. we don't allow tv's in bedrooms.

coasterqueen replied: Ok, I'm losing some info here or not reading.....did he physically go upstairs and turn off her tv after her allotted time and she got back up and turned it on? If so, then yes you did the right thing.

In our house we use timers on the tv. So they know when tv shuts off it's time to go to bed. My kids are too lazy to get up out of bed to turn the tv back on so we've never had this instance with that. BUT we have forgotten to turn the timer on and went back there at 10/11 or so to check on them and found them watching tv still and IMO that's our fault, not theirs, so the only price Kylie paid that time was being sleepy at school.

My kids are only in their bedrooms for bedtime or nap time and they get 1/2 hour to watch tv before bed, otherwise they aren't watching it in there.

A&A'smommy replied: Alyssa has done that too and she ended up being grounded from the tv AND computer. You totally did the right thing and I wouldn't feel bad at all!!!

mummy2girls replied:
Yes after the half hour of winding down, he went upstairs and then turned it off, told her to get into bed and left the room. the little bugger got back up, put earphones in the tv and watched till 11pm. because marcus heard silence he just figured she was asllep. Me personally i would of went back up again just to make sure...

coasterqueen replied:
Ah, I see. Yeah, she should have been punished. Now, Marcus....honestly I wouldn't have checked again, especially if my DD's didn't have a record of doing that. So be easy on Marcus.

CantWait replied:
This exactly

Mommy2Isabella replied: Our big kids share a room, and they used to have a TV with DVD player hooked up, the first and last time they decided they made the rules they lost the TV for good. It was about a year ago.

I might be more harsh than most though!

I think you did the right thing for your family, you certainly shouldn't feel bad for asserting some discipline.

mummy2girls replied:
oh i was ...LOL I didnt even say it to him. I just thought it. And i can see why he didnt check on her too because liek i said she always goes to sleep and never gets back up...