My nieces have just told me they were sent to bed without dinner as a punishment (or tea if that’s your lingo!)
AIBU to think this is a cruel punishment akin to smacking your kids and even 10 years ago parents should have known better?
Or is it still used/fair at times “when necessary” - if a kid “deserved it”.
my husband said that’s whilst his parents didn’t do it, and we as parents haven’t done it - he didn’t think it was too big a deal.
YABU - once in a while it’s understandable
YANBU - not acceptable
(I can understand a kid being sent to their room before dinner time and everyone in too sour a mood to come together - but this was as a “punishment” - the mum used to sneak food to them without dad knowing. Unknown what the “crime” was, but let’s presume it was not punching teachers and setting fire to bus stops, but related to typical teenage girls being arseholes at times)