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Parents, you all know that your child never came with a guidebook when you took them home from the hospital's maternity ward. Unfortunately, we don't all magically know how to be a good parent or what to do when our kid inevitably acts up. But at a certain point, we must trust that our parenting days are behind us, leaving the disciplinary actions of yore behind us in an attempt to let our kid be an adult. By the time they're 30, they're definitely not a kid anymore and don't reap any benefits from being grounded.
That's just fanning the flames of a soon-to-be-burnt family bridge.
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30-year-old woman gets “grounded” by her stepdad while visiting her parents for the weekend, but she refuses his authority and cuts her family visit short instead: ‘He told me to ’watch my attitude''
The worst thing a parent can do to their teenage child is take away their freedom with a good ol' fashioned grounding. Effectively clipping their wings, grounding a kid can make them feel like a chastised baby, not the fledgling, independent adult they imagined themselves to be. However, at a certain age, grounding your kid doesn't make much sense and might only foster a rebellious nature in their soul. What age is that, you might ask?
Well, grounding your 30-year-old adult daughter is definitely past the cut-off of acceptability, especially for a stepparent. Hence, the rebellion in this next story.
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