Can you believe how ridiculous some adults act when they have to face the consequences for their bad choices?

Take Paris Hilton's recent brush with the law. She was pulled over a while back for reckless driving and sentenced to 36 months of probation, alcohol education and $1,500 in fines. Do you think she learned her lesson? Nope - she continues to drive even though her license was suspended, and finally ends up in jail.

She literally screams at the judge's recent decision to keep her in jail (she must think she's above the law because after all she's a hot celebrity) after the sheriff unlawfully released her a few days ago due to some "unknown medical conditions".

Pretty ridiculous if you ask me. Well, she's finally getting a good dose of reality behind bars.

Now I admit that I don't know anything about her childhood or the kind of parents that raised her, but I do know for certain that I don't want any of my kids to turn out that way! I want them to learn at an early age that there are consequences in life for the choices they make.

I feel it's my job as a dad to raise kids who are prepared for the realities of every day living, which means letting them experience the consequences for the choices they make.

I'm not talking about letting them do something that would cause them any lasting or physical damage. If a car is coming and they continue to walk out into the street, I'm not going to let them "experience reality". I'm going to yell at them to get out of the street!

But if one of my kids decides to be disrespectful to me or their mother, then they get to experience the consequence for that choice. For my oldest daughter that meant losing the privilege of a sleep-over last night with one of her best friends. After the third warning within the span of about 20 minutes over an issue involving an argument she was having with her sister, it was time for her to experience the consequences of her disrespectfulness.

If she doesn't learn this now while she's young and the consequences are minimal, then she might venture into the workplace someday as an adult and lose her job after being disrespectful to her boss. That's a much more painful consequences, and one that I hope she won't have to experience because she will already have learned that lesson as a child.