YDI for breeding. =)

Tell that bitch to shut up or you won't ever let him leave the house again, much less go on some dumb ass boy scout retreat. Kids act like retarded monkeys because you parents let them! Discipline your child or stop whining and deal with the tantrums (and no, telling mikey he's grounded is not the kind of discipline I'm talking about)

Now you can ground him for being a crybaby.

I'm not so fussed by the punishment as by the reason it was given. Do you mean 'smartass' as in he was cheeky and corrected/ annoyed you? Or... I fail to see any other way that the term could mean a bad thing. If he was cheeky, that hardly deserves being so harsh. A little bit of disrespect for your elders is always healthy- he won't get walked all over by his boss, wife, or pissy people like you if he knows when to stand his ground. But then it sounds like you just got annoyed and felt like a fail 'cause he was probably right, so upped the punishment :p

Hahahah. I do the fake cry to annoy my family and also work mates somedays. I know how painful it must be though. I wanna slap people/children that do it for real.

Decepticon - I am in complete agreement!!!

of course white people are far better off because ur devils. u should be proud 

I agree that a child needs to be grounded for certain offenses, but to take away his Scouting trip is wrong. I think the Scouts are a great organization that will greatly benefit him. Choose a different weekend to ground him and let him go to camp.

put him to work! Make him organize his room, scrub the bathroom floors or exercises so he doesn't have time to cry. If he whines more, tell him you will pile on the workload until he shuts his mouth.

It's great that you grounded your kid for doing something wrong, but maybe from now on your punishments need to be more specific Instead of just "And you can't go out for a week" maybe "And you have to do _____" or even "you are grounded for a week and for every minute you cry I take a computer game off you (for a month?) . And if you run out of computer games, for every minute of uncontrolled screaming (subject to your ruling) you will confiscate the computer/tv/phone for a day. So if he cries for half an hour he goes a month with no media. Find your kid's currency, and use it. Good that you found the camp was a currency of his (that you can bargain with) but maybe would have been more effective as a deterrent rather than a punishment, making the camp sound like a reward for good boys, etc OH and i just thought of something evil: Tape him throwing a tantrum and "accidentally" play it in front of all his friends AHAHAHAHHAHAHAH next camp/birthday/every event/school. THEN at his 21st. THEN at his wedding. (I'm kidding, don't do that)