If you ground your kid for a week, follow through with it. Kids who know no consequences for their actions tell me that it feels like their parents don't care. The toughest thing for parents is to turn their kids in. I just applaud parents who call the authorities on their drunken kids or call them in as runaways if they know the kids are out partying. If they don't do that, they're enabling that behavior.
Kids hate it, but they get over it.
Tough love is far harder on the parent than on the kids. Gannett Co .