Calico
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Has anyone ever understood this? Have you ever been made to pick your own punishment as a child by an adult?
I remember being in 8th grade and my resource room teacher talked to me about a behavior I did and asked me what should happen to me.
Why do adults sometimes make kids pick their own punishments for something they did wrong? What is the logic behind it? Wouldn't the kid just pick the easiest Punishment or something they feel that isn't a punishment?
For in case anyone is curious what I picked, I picked lunch detention and it didn't really matter since you eat in the classroom with the teacher and how was that even a punishment was beyond me. Now as an adult it dawned on me that it's a punishment because it keeps you from socializing with your friends and peers and I didn't really care for that as a child and I had troubles fitting in anyway and it wasn't something I was good at anyway so this was barely even a consequence for me. Plus I didn't care for the playground. So I had picked the easiest punishment.
I remember being in 8th grade and my resource room teacher talked to me about a behavior I did and asked me what should happen to me.
Why do adults sometimes make kids pick their own punishments for something they did wrong? What is the logic behind it? Wouldn't the kid just pick the easiest Punishment or something they feel that isn't a punishment?
For in case anyone is curious what I picked, I picked lunch detention and it didn't really matter since you eat in the classroom with the teacher and how was that even a punishment was beyond me. Now as an adult it dawned on me that it's a punishment because it keeps you from socializing with your friends and peers and I didn't really care for that as a child and I had troubles fitting in anyway and it wasn't something I was good at anyway so this was barely even a consequence for me. Plus I didn't care for the playground. So I had picked the easiest punishment.