Parents: "children should be taught that actions have consequences"
Okay, let them stay up till 5 in the morning and feel like shit for the next day, eat a bag of candy in one go and have a huge stomach ache, go out without an umbrella and catch a cold, watch a violent movie and get scared?
Parents: "actually, we mean screaming and beating the crap out of them when they try to do these things"
"Okay, let them stay up till 5 in the morning and feel like shit for the next day,"
It's funny you mention this one because I think I remember one on Reddit where the parent caught the kid watching a movie past their bedtime or something, and proceeded to force the kid to stay up literally all night watching movies with the parent and then go to school on zero sleep.
Many parents just take the idea of "Natural Consequences" to mean "Be creative and think of sadistic ways of punishing your children that are sufficiently connected to what they did to give you plausible deniability."
