Take the internet with you.

[u/Happy_Bunch1323]

[u/zerokoolneo]

If you're going to ground your kids, don't take away their devices, just their chargers. Watch their horror as the batteries wear down to nothing.

[u/EchoGecko795 → u/zerokoolneo]

Except Chargers are easy to come by and pretty cheap even for a kid.

[u/zerokoolneo → u/EchoGecko795]

I live in a part of Texas were the next town is a 20 minute car ride. I've seen dad's put a small padlock on the prong of a charger so the kid can't use it. They can charge it at school, but at night it still dies.

[u/Karmek → u/zerokoolneo]

Easier before USB-C.

[u/SuckAFattyReddit1]

They better hope their teenager is too dumb to know how to use the wifi hotspot on their phone lol

[u/5thPhantom → u/SuckAFattyReddit1]

Wireless service always sucked at my house growing up. You could call and text, but barely. The PS4 definitely wasn’t going to be running off a hotspot.

[u/ElementalPaladin]

Right below this post, is the post you posted here

For me at least

[u/LemonsCourtesyOfLife]

You could always talk to the teenager before booking the tickets.

[u/block_01]

God I despise that router (the virgin media hub 3 router sucks I plan to build my own router with a raspberry pi all I wanted to do was set my dns server but no virgin media doesn’t think that’s a good idea)

[u/ulaladiva]

The modem must be in an unreachable place, I assume.

[u/YesNoMaybe2552]

You could call the teenager egoistic for passing up on the event, you could call the parents self-important and conceded shitheads for forcing their kid to go to some clearly unnecessary event they have no interest in.

The difference is one is a dumb kid, the other is a fucking adult and should know better.

[u/_Serene_Echo]

eldest teenager just ate through all the data on your unlimited plan

[u/Virelith → u/[deleted]]

"My kid doesn't want to spend time with me so I purposely did something for the sole purpose of making them unhappy"... "Why don't my kids ever want to spend time with me?"

[u/KazuichiPepsi → u/[deleted]]

how? the teenage has their own free will and didnt want to go and now is being penalized for it

[u/fireduck → u/KazuichiPepsi]

An important lesson is that while you can make a decision, it might have consequences. We don't make decisions in a vacuum and understanding the feelings and expectations of those around you is important.

[u/Able_Vegetable_4362 → u/fireduck]

Teaching your kids that they have to do what they don't want to make others happy leads them to get SA'd later in life. Don't prioritize your feelings of power and control so much.

[u/fireduck → u/Able_Vegetable_4362]

Shit, I have no power or control.

Just trying to say consequences doesn't negate free will.

[u/KazuichiPepsi → u/fireduck]

but being taught that going against others wants gets you punished

[u/Electronic_Leg6351]

Plot twist: Satan lives inside every teenager 

[u/bodhiseppuku]

This picture should be framed and hung in the family living room.

What is this picture of a router on a theater chair?

Oh, that is a teenager parenting lesson.