Journal #5: 21st Century Punishment

Punishment has gone from whippings in the early days of America to spankings, from spankings to grounding, and now the taking of electronic devices. Today, parents take away cell phones, iPods, computers, televisions, facebook, twitter, and other privileges as punishment. But what is considered a fair punishment in the 21st century?
For me, I think a fair punishment is based on the child and his or her likes. The following examples demonstrate what I mean by that.
Say a boy really likes playing video games and playing on his PS2. The boy, named Tim, lied to his parents about cleaning his room. He said that he cleaned everything up and that is was as clean as a whistle. However, when his parents stepped into his room, they realized that it was not as clean as a whistle. There were clothes thrown everywhere and most of his toys and things stuffed under the bed and in the closet. He only said his room was clean, because he wanted to play with his PS2 and video games. He could only do this if he cleaned his room, but no one likes to clean their room including Tim. His parents punished him. How?
Since Tim likes to play with his video games, PS2, or game boy, I would take away those things. Whatever is dear to him, take away for an extended period of time. Then he will learn that in order to keep those things, he should not lie or do anything wrong. The same applies to a girl.
If Cecilia talks back to her parents and gives them attitude, and she is told countless times not to, then she should be punished. If Cecilia really likes her cell phone, and texts all the time, I would take her cell phone away. Then she might realize that she should not sass her parents and that her phone will not be taken away if she does not talk back to them.
In this century, technology is a major part of people's lives. Taking technology away from them is a fair punishment in my opinion for those who like technology. The punishment should be based on what the child is dear with. Whatever they like, take it away, and hopefully they will learn not to do that wrong thing again.