Journal 5

Teenage punishments now involve the computer, cell phones, social networking sites, and the television compared to punishments that were giving to our parents which included house phone privileges and not being allowed to hang out with friends. The world of technology is changing quickly around us and the punishments are now all centered around technology. I believe that taking away kids technology is a fair punishment for them and that these punishments also take away their ability to talk with their friends. In my house punishment really does not affect me, but my sister on the hand gets in trouble a lot more. Unlike me it is really easy to take things away from her because she is more attached to her phone and ipod than I am. She also usually gets her stuff taken away because she refuses to use the cases that protect the items that she has. I am not attached at the hip with my phone or technological devices the only thing that would work for punishment for me is if my dvd player or cable box got taken away because the only way I can get to sleep is with either a movie on or criminal minds. I would die if that got taken away and I would lose a ton of sleep and be really angry. The punishments have had to change because the everyday the world is changing and technology is changing and the people in it are different. The world is not the same place that it used to be. There are new laws written everyday and new technology coming out that influence how a person acts and behaves. We are influenced by the environment around us and this causes some of our behaviors which lead to the typical punishments of technology being taken away. Punishments are varied among households and also how the parents of the teenagers were disciplined usually affects how they will discipline their own children and the cycle continues.