# How should I punish this misbehavior? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077 "2020-03-08T01:50:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/21 "2020-03-08T05:15:55Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > In relation to your home, is the offended neighbor adjacent or downstairs? Perhaps your daughter has dreams of becoming a concert violinist? Or learning to tap dance? > > It’s never too early to pursue your dreams. No. The Skaldette needs to explore the possibility of becoming the female Neil Peart. Especially if the neighbor lives directly under her room. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/22 "2020-03-08T05:45:41Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > On the board, I typically use dictation on the iPhone or iPad. > > What is the character that is appearing? VoiceOver does not indicate anything. It’s that generic symbol that’s used when the system can’t show the symbol you used. Maybe for an emoji? There’s one after the last word “Thoughts?” in the OP and one after “Easter” and one after “their big sister” in option #1. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/23 "2020-03-08T05:50:42Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > No. The Skaldette needs to explore the possibility of becoming the female Neil Peart. Especially if the neighbor lives directly under her room. Our immediate downstairs neighbors are my work wife and her actual wife, so I don’t think that would be wise. especially not since she, the work wife, has my emergency key and has taken the full Skaldian evil course. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/24 "2020-03-08T05:59:41Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > It’s that generic symbol that’s used when the system can’t show the symbol you used. Maybe for an emoji? There’s one after the last word “Thoughts?” in the OP and one after “Easter” and one after “their big sister” in option #1. I don’t do emoji’s more involved then the very old-fashioned colon plus dash plus parenthesis for a smile or frown. VoiceOver won’t read them when other posters use them, so frankly I see no point. No point for me, that is. I’m not complaining; it would be ridiculous to expect board culture to change because of my specialized circumstance. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/25 "2020-03-08T07:19:30Z")
What a good and clever girl. I’d vote for #1 + riding lessons, if that’s something she wants. Two brothers will help spreading the news, and it should get back to the neighbour soonest, there is only four weeks to Easter. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/26 "2020-03-08T12:44:20Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I don’t do emoji’s more involved then the very old-fashioned colon plus dash You put a dash of colon in your posts? ::shocked face:: > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > No point for me, that is. I’m not complaining; it would be ridiculous to expect board culture to change because of my specialized circumstance. See, we can change for you. > [@Mikkel](#): > > there is only four weeks to Easter. Help her by starting the Easter bunny soup…or is that only for spurned lovers? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/27 "2020-03-09T13:35:05Z")
Have your daughter go over and apologize, and make sure she uses severl obscene words in every sentence? “Listen, you bitch, I’m so fucking sorry you took my shitty speech to be so goddamn offensive and it would send me to fucking hell for the rest of my life, what with me being a shitting foul month bastard.” See how long it takes your neighbor to get the drift of it. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/28 "2020-03-09T15:12:54Z")
I need to bookmark this post. It should be mandatory reading for all! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/29 "2020-03-09T16:27:59Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Have your daughter go over and apologize, and make sure she uses severl obscene words in every sentence? “Listen, you bitch, I’m so fucking sorry you took my shitty speech to be so goddamn offensive and it would send me to fucking hell for the rest of my life, what with me being a shitting foul month bastard.” See how long it takes your neighbor to get the drift of it. Even better to use a variation on Judge Roy Bean (Paul Newman)‘s apology to the marshals’ wives (who are all former hookers): > [@](#): > > I understand you have taken exception to my calling you whores. I’m sorry. I apologize. I ask you to note that I did not call you callous-ass strumpets, fornicatresses, or low-born gutter sluts. But I did say “whores.” No escaping that. And for that slip of the tongue, I apologize. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/30 "2020-03-09T16:47:35Z")
That brings to mind a scene from Alice Vachss’s book Sex Crimes where an obnoxious DA complains that someone referred to him as “that fucking DA.” Alice proceeds to say she never heard anyone refer to him as “that fucking DA or that Bastard of a DA or that queer boy DA” and used every derogatory term she could think of and added “DA.” Do the same, only use the word “neighbor.” ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/31 "2020-03-09T17:34:10Z")
No, no - buy her a donkey. Name the front end Balaam, and the back end after your neighbor. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/32 "2020-03-09T17:50:31Z")
Pony. And then start giving rides to all the kids except the neighbir’s. And create the world’s largest manure pile nearest their fence. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/33 "2020-03-09T18:16:27Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Even better to use a variation on Judge Roy Bean (Paul Newman)‘s apology to the marshals’ wives (who are all former hookers): Yeah, if the Sprout had done that, I’d make him go over an apologize for saying “shit” to a more or less innocent 7 year old who was just repeating what her mother said. Then he’d figure out a way to say it again, using slightly less vulgar language. I would never encourage him to ask “If God made my Dad blind because he did didn’t go to church, what did you do, to have God make you a stupid jerk?” But if he wanted to ask all by himself, he could go ahead. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/34 "2020-03-09T19:47:04Z")
As with not knowing the size or periodicity of her allowance, I don’t know what logistical issues would be raised by the acquisition of a pony. In any event, the pony idea feels fiscally problematic in terms of sustainability (I’m reminded of the fix Homer Simpson found himself in when he bought Lisa a pony), and the allowance-doubling strikes me as more parsimonious by far than the weekly outings. Therefore, of the suggestions offered, I would vote for the weekly movies-or-restaurant of her choosing. And the next time she earns such a punishment, you could make it movies AND a restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![txjim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f07891/32.png) [@txjim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txjim)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/35 "2020-03-09T21:35:49Z")
Punishment better take place soon or else your daughter might go spreading lies such as the earth is round. Or, even worse, that evolution is real. One shudders at the thought of what she is capable of. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/36 "2020-03-10T04:37:10Z")
Dang, this thread put a smile on my face. You a good Dad Skald! ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/37 "2020-03-11T12:49:48Z")
> [@Lacunae\_Matata](#): > > In relation to your home, is the offended neighbor adjacent or downstairs? Perhaps your daughter has dreams of becoming a concert violinist? Or learning to tap dance? > > It’s never too early to pursue your dreams. Trumpet, saxophone, drums! A band! ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/38 "2020-03-11T14:18:53Z")
I like one - completely ignores the other family, minimizes drama, and makes the Skaldette an object of admiration by her brothers. Would suggest allowing limited access to the winged monkeys as well, but you do you. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077/39 "2020-03-11T15:18:49Z")
What!? A board full of geeks and no mention of [Sheridan’s apology](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8vA0ANTUM0) for destroying a Centauri warship? Decades ago I lived in apartment complex and one of the other families there included a teenage daughter whose eyes had been blinded by too much O[sub]2[/sub] when she was born premature. They attended services at a church nearby and the preacher sermonized about the sins of the fathers being visited on the children, while looking right at them. Needless to say, they never went back. Full of Christ’s love that guy was. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-should-i-punish-this-misbehavior/849077.md?page=1)