Reply #50: When my daughter got suspended from school

[reyd reid reed]

I added my own punishment because I didn't want the suspension to be more like a long weekend. I got her up in the mornings and put her to work. Cleaning bathrooms, sorting laundry, washing the kitchen floor...all the stuff that I generally do at some point during the day.

She was glad to go back to school.

In the end, you have to deal with it in a manner that you feel is approrpiate. She's lucky she didn't get ticketed for underage drinking...I don't know about where you live, but here it's a mandatory court appearance, community service, alcohol education classes, fines...lots of fun stuff.

And make sure she's aware of ALL the possible consequences, if you haven't already. Legal, familial and physical.