He Forced His Son To Go To School The Day After Staying Up Late And Secretly Watching Netflix, But His Wife Thinks That Was Too Harsh Of A Consequence

This man and his wife currently have a son, who is almost twelve-years-old and currently attending sixth grade.
And even though his son is reportedly a good kid, he claims that his son is also “like all twelve years olds” and enjoys testing boundaries.
Anyway, a few days ago, he woke up in the middle of the night and noticed that the family iPad was missing. It was normally kept on top of a desk in the living room.
So, he decided to check if any of his children had the device in their rooms.
He first went into his son’s room and found him watching a Netflix movie on the iPad. Now, his son did not hear him enter the room since he had been wearing headphones at the time.
This meant that his son was pretty surprised to see him, and he told his kid to get to bed– especially because it was already around 2:00 a.m.
Well, the following morning rolled around, and he had to wake his son up at 6:00 a.m. for school. And even though his child was up late the night before, he still woke his son up at the normal time.
But, immediately after waking up, his son started complaining about being too tired to go to school. He refused to put up with that, though.
“I told him that was too bad, and his consequence for staying up late was having to go to school,” he recalled.

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Anyway, his son ended up going to school as usual. Right after his son arrived home, though, he immediately went to bed. Now, his wife had been working all night and had missed all of what had happened. So, by the time she got home, she was concerned and asked if their son was sick.
He told his wife that their son definitely was not sick, though, and told her about how he had been up all night. Shockingly, though, his wife completely disagreed with how he handled the situation. In fact, she called him a total jerk for making their kid go to school, knowing that he was tired. She also claimed that they could have punished their son in a different way.
Honestly, though, he still believes that natural consequences are the most effective punishments– especially because they often work with his kids.
“I do the majority of the day-to-day parenting since my wife works a lot, and I know this works for all three of them,” he said.
Regardless, his wife is still insisting that he should have just allowed his son to stay home. Plus, she claims that by not doing that, he is going to ruin their son’s sleep schedule.
So now, with his wife pretty angry at him, he has been left wondering if forcing his son to go to school following a really late night was the best way to handle the situation or not.
Do you think his son knew what he was doing by sneaking the iPad into his bedroom and staying up late to watch a movie? Do you believe that by forcing his son to go to school, he was teaching his kid a valuable lesson? Or do you think his wife’s approach would have been better? What would you have done?
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