Do you remember when your teenage children used to walk a few feet away from you on the same street as if being so close to you might damage their reputation? Well, it’s a very common behavior in this delicate phase of growing up, one wants more independence and one strives to get away from one’s parents. That’s why a father decided to punishing his 17-year-old son “with his presence”after discovering that the latter was not behaving well in school.
Raising children is always a very personal subject, although parents can find many commonalities in their respective stories. The father in this story, Bradley Howard, certainly found an original way to punish his son, who was showing bad behavior at school. Time and time again, the 17-year-old’s teachers had phoned to report that “the boy was talking too much in class“. Faced with this series of warnings, father Brad thought of all the solutions, including banning his son from using his cell phone, but then settled on a solution that might actually work.
“For some reason I was like, ‘Hey, if we get another call like this, I’m going to show up at school and sit next to you in class,’ Father Brad said. , by exploiting one of the greatest fears of adolescents: to be seen in the company of their parent.
It didn’t take long for another phone call to come in and Dad Brad had to show up for school. Although it wasn’t something he really wanted to do, he knew he had to surprise his son somehow.
“Friday is my only day off, so my wife wakes me up and says, ‘Brad, it’s time for you to go to school. I was like, ‘oh no, what did I do? says Brad. There you go, it’s done: father Brad sat down next to his son in class, even before the young man realized he was there. “I hadn’t even noticed it until I was saying hello to all my friends, but then I was really shocked,” the teenager said. Of course, all the classmates had a good laugh, and the young man must have realized that he necessarily had to change his attitude. The physics teacher thanked the father for the “lesson” given to his son, but also added that he hoped such a thing would never happen again.
What do you think, has this father found a good way to teach his son a lesson?
