I think the hardest thing to do and where a lot of parents fail, is not following thru on the punishment they enact. My neighbors would "ground" their kids or take away the computer, but then if it conflicted with something the parents wanted to do, they would suspend it or find some other excuse of not following thru. Both kids smoked weed, the boy snuck in my house and store money...was huffing inhalants. The hardest thing is to say "no" and stick to it.
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