@mom.outofoffice/InstagramWhen it comes to raising teens, a lot has changed, but I think one big thing has stayed the same for generations: the punishments. When I was a teen in the early 2000s, when my mom was a teen in the 1970s, when my grandmother was a teen in the 1940s, cutting your teen off from what they loved the most — their social life — was always a good punishment. Two weeks grounded? A literal tragedy when you’re 16. No AOL for a week? You might as well just send me off to space because I’m never going to recover from the FOMO. And now, we just take away our kids’ phones complete...
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