Punish your child painfully by taking away their devices, so that they learn.

Jessie Liew SP
4 min readMay 29, 2023

Today, I am going to debunk a myth that you should punish your child and let them learn the lesson painfully by taking away their screen / electronic devices.

In this digital era, it seems we can’t separate our children from electronic devices and the Internet.

They are using the screen / Internet to do their school work, to study, to communicate and socialize with their friends, and for entertainment.

A study by Common Sense Media found that 72% of teens feel the need to respond to notifications immediately, and 59% of parents say their teens are addicted to their mobile devices.

These are some of the challenges parents face today in this digital era.

One of the mistakes parents made in their child’s screen time is they punish their child by taking away their electronic devices or removing the screen time amount.

This is done from a belief that their children will learn from this punishment.

This is also done from the place to correct their child’s behavior.

When you nag and nag and they refuse to put away their devices, you started to take…

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Jessie Liew SP

I help parents to empower their children to use the screen/Internet responsibly and stay safe online. Join my free FB group http://bit.ly/FBGRPDPC