Parenting Your Teenager: 6 Tips for Effective Discipline and Consequences – [Parenting Ideas] Related. Related simply means related to the behavior. If a child violates curfew, making him stay late at school or mow the lawn is not related. The temporary loss of the privilege of going out is related. Respectful. We need to avoid two things here: The first is humiliating the teen-ager; the second is inconveniencing the adult. Reasonable. “You are grounded for life and will never see the light of day again’’ is unreasonable. `”Your behavior and choices have caused you to lose the privilege of going out tomorrow night’’ is reasonable…
