The problem with millennials and post-millennials is they're too smart and likely to cir vent versus following orders.
30, 40, 50, 100 years ago... kids respect their parents' decision, accept their punishment, and acknowledge that they were wrong. This generation, on the other hand, is a completely different species... today's leftist, anti family value, rebellious kinder and elementary teachers have a lot to do with it... suspend your son from TV and friend Johnny for a week? Don't be surprised when he's downstairs watching HBO at 3 am, with or without Johnny. Or not at the house and all, but he shows up back from a fun night of playing with Johnny and the other neighborhood kids before your normal waking time, gets dressed for school and pretends to be a good boy. And when you harshen the punishment, he gets even more rebellious. By the time he's about 10 or 11 he has perfected many of his crafts, such as slipping a drowsy allergy pill in your morning coffee, or making you wonder "that's weird, I thought I had more cash on me" when you open your wallet one day. And by the time he's a teenager, you've completely lost him.
All of the "say no to drugs, say no to alcohol, cigarettes kill, stay abstinent" rhetoric you've preached since he was knee-high to a grasshopper, all that practical, reasonable gospel -- echoes snarlingly in his rapidly changing mind as the hate speech of an evil tyrant. And so he proceeds in his rebellion. He first experiments with ies, absences, marijuana, cigarettes, whiskey, and casual safe sex. He then moves on to tattoos, piercings, long-term truancy, cocaine, sex and more sex. Before the age of twenty-one he has dropped out of school, had one child with his ex and another baby on the way with his new girlfriend, and has been convicted and incarcerated for his first felony. You're officially a failure of a parent and have raised a riff-raff criminal thug rebellious of all order and standards with multiple children he cannot hope to support. As the father of this demon, all you can do is shoot yourself.