M0nica
How do you punish parents? You deliberately slowdown everything you are doing when you are aware there is a deadline for going somewhere - like school, or to visit grandparents. You do it with slowness and subtly, cutting your breakfast into very small pieces and then carefully eating it piece by piece and that can take a very long time. Sent to tidy your bedroom, you start by very slowly and very carefully rearranging the dolls house. No point in waiting for a story to end, as soon as you speak it starts up again. There is no limit to a child's inventiveness, when they really put their mind to it.
Well the breakfast is easy. They eat it or go without (with an alternative of sticking it in a box if they are going in a car.) They won't starve. If they are going out they go as they are if they aren't ready. Including school in pyjamas. Bedroom is an area where some flexibility can be allowed with sanctions or the withdrawal of treats if it isn't tidy but no time frame. You listen to one story and then stop them. If they won't stop you walk away. But return with the discipline when they are quiet (it's a good idea to interrupt something they enjoy doing). Adults need to be inventive as well.
That is only punishing parents if the parents choose to regard it as such otherwise it's pretty standard behaviour
