[Parker]

Raised by a single mother for the better part of my vulnerable years who never once laid a hand on me or my sisters. We were raised with follow through and consequences, If she handed out a punishment of grounding at 7:00 pm for three days we didn't get off grounding until 7:00 pm three days later and not one second early. We had chores as kids, cleaning your room every Saturday morning before T.V. or heading out to play etc. If we skipped it Mom went in a cleaned everything into garbage bags and believe me when she cleaned she cleaned. It only happened to one of my younger sisters once and the rest of us learned our lesson. She always followed through, even if that meant she had to in a way be punished herself.

I watch my sister raising my nieces with zero follow through, she takes the cell phones away for a week and a not even a day goes by and they have them back, what does that teach? I also see the parents divided where it comes discipline and rules, to me that just seems like a recipe for failure.