Hi my name is Jessica I'm 15 and was caught shoplifting. My mother took me back to the store where I shoplifted from and made turn myself in. She then grounded me in front of them and asked them what they thought I should be punished from. A few of the girls said that I should not be allowed to have t.v., go out, have friends over. My mother asked me how long I thought I should be grounded and I said a week. She then asked the store employees and they said at least a month. My mother grounded said she thought two months so in the end I got three months and 1 week she also stated to the store employees that I was going to have a very hard time sitting for a few days. Nothing happened she was just embarrassing me. I was already embarrassed getting caught and then my mother making me go back in front of the store employees and tell them what I was grounded from everything and even more embarrassed that she asked what they thought I should be grounded from and for how long. She said since it was there store I stold from they should have a say I how I was punished. Is this fair???? or should I have been grounded from something else!!!???