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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A woman whose son was suspended from school for roughhousing with a teacher punished him by making him wear a sign and pick up litter while walking five miles down a city street.
Travis Griffin earned the 10-day suspension from Creston High School after putting a teacher in a headlock while horsing around Thursday.
His mother, Veronica Griffin, wouldn't let him stay home and wanted to teach him a lesson. So she had the 15-year-old wear a sign on his back that read, "I made a bad choice in school now I'm living with it."
"He has to know when his actions are not appropriate that there could be consequences to those actions and those consequences could be humiliating," Veronica told WOOD-TV Friday.
That is fantastic! Good for her! I do notice how kids these days don't respect adults like we did when we were young. The computer is making kids grow up way to fast I think. I bet Travis learned a lesson!
When my daughter was in high school, she and a very good friend of hers were home alone for an hour or so while I had a doctor's appt. The other girls mother was home up the street in the same subdivision and they were both 15.
Anyway, they decided to make pancakes and pulled out my electric skillet. Ruined it with metal utensils. The other girl fessed up and said she did it. Offered to pay for the damage. But with her mom's permission I came up with a slightly more effective way of handling restitution.
I had been edging my very small yard with an old pair of scissors...told her that she was to do 2 hours out there edging in my place.
She's never used metal utensils on a non stick surface since. She is now 21 and a mom herself.
I discovered being creative with punishments for far better than the old standards. Liz
Good for this Mother, what punishment is it to tell a kid they aren't going to school and can stay at home and do what they want...
When my daughter is in trouble, I make sure she has plenty of things to fill her time...haven't done the cleaning up trash thing along the road but in high school it sounds like a good idea.
My mom and dad gave me 5 topics to choose from and I had to write an essay from rough draft to final copy, minimum 4 pages. The grounding was over when they passed it.
Then one time we decided to make her write, "I will think before I act" 500 times in longhand, NOT on the computer. Boy, was she mad at us. She lived tho.
Then there was the time she skipped school. I made her handwrite apology notes to EACH teacher and deliver them. She goes, but none of the will bother reading them! Told her I didn't care if they weren't read but she WAS writing them.
Btw, 3 of her 6 teachers called me to thank me for doing that. Liz
That is beautiful to hear people are still doing things this way....but it's way too few and far between..
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She is now 21 and a mom herself. 
