Punishment

There are some things I don't understand about punishments. I have never said that they didn't work, but they sometimes don't make much sense. For instance, the classic "You don't get any dessert tonight." after you took a cookie before dinner. I never understood how that was supposed to teach me not to take a cookie before dinner, I still had eaten the cookie, and not having one after dinner just meant that I wasn't going to get a second cookie.

It just seems illogical to punish me with going without something I already had. Sure a lot of kids see this as going without, but I have always seen it as something that just didn't add up. But that doesn't mean I never learned my lesson when it came to other types of punishments. The classic "go to your room and think about what you've done!" always got to me. I am a very emotional person and when I am told to think about what I've done, all that I can think of doing is to sit in a corner and think about how I am a terrible person and that I should just go die in a hole.

So in short, I have told a lot about myself and a lot about bull crap punishments.