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Teen gets grounded, starts Facebook group to get ungrounded, group membes tell her to stay grounded will do you good.
The Facebook group "1000 to get tess ungrounded" has now crossed the 1000 mark. The story so far. A teen goes out to a party gets drunk and misses her 11:30 deadline by an hour. Get's punished by her parents and is grounded for 5 weeks. Tess Chapman a starts a Facebook group to help her get ungrounded.
This is what she had to say on her group homepage
My son was grounded for a similar first offense years ago. I'll never regret that I reacted so seriously. He "towed the line" thereafter, got straight A's in high school and college and just opened his first restaurant. I think the fact that he knew I was adamant that he avoid the alcohol trap that he succeeded.
ReplyDelete100% with you on that. Parents correct their children because they want to see them make something of themselves.
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