Journal #5

I am not really sure what a good punishment would be for today's society.  I am never punished by my parents. They mostly just talk to me about what I have done wrong or sometimes they yell at me if it was really bad.  I remember one time when I was actually spanked.  It was a Sunday morning and my family was at church.  After church I was supposed to go to Sunday School in the classroom.  On my way to the classroom I saw my cousin and he asked me if I wanted to go sit in "Big Church" with him.  Of course I wanted to, so I went ahead and went to church again with him. Little did I know that church lasted one hour and Sunday school lasts for only thirty minutes.  My parents went to pick me up from Sunday school and the teacher told them that I wasn't even there today.  They absolutely freaked out! They had no clue where I was and my parents went ahead and sent out a search party consisting of my grandparents, my mom, my dad, and my sister.  After looking around the church building for around half an hour, I found them as soon as I got out of church.  They were so mad at me! If I recall correctly, that is the only time that my parents have ever physically punished me.  I have never had my phone taken away (knock on wood). I think that taking my phone away would be a good punishment for me because I do use it a lot.  I don't think that my parents would ever take my computer away because I use it for school a lot. I think that they would be crazy if they made me miss homework assignments just because they were punishing me for something that I have done.  I know that a punishment that wouldn't do me any good would be to ground me from the television.  I never watch television at home anyway during the school week especially while i am involved in a school sport.  I have to spend most of my spare time doing homework.