What kinds of trouble are the kids up to these days?

I have run into a bit of a problem while doing some rewriting of my "Pamela & Richard" serial to bring everything in line with the LSF site rules. My difficulty is twofold. First, I like to come up with creative reasons for the spankings I write, as opposed to using "cliche" misdeeds that have been done to death. Second, I'm now finding myself somewhat hampered by the fact that the majority of my fictional spankees are in their minority. I have not been a teenager for almost 30 years now. I know what kinds of trouble my peers and I got up to when we were teenagers, but I stopped being a teenager in 1986. Then there's the fact that I don't spend a lot of time around teenagers if I can help it. I guess I am ... "out of touch" ... with what the kids are up to these days. I have also remained unmarried and have fathered no children, so I have no experience with raising teenagers. I have two teenaged nieces (they will be 14 and 17 in May), but this isn't exactly the kind of question you ask your sister. "Hey, sis, I'm writing a story about spanking a teenage girl. Tell me what kinds of trouble K and N get up to. I need some ideas." (Although, for the record, my sister is aware of my spanking fetish.)

So. Those of you who are closer to your teenage years than I am, and those of you with recent/current child-raising experience, or those who generally have more contact with modern teenagers than I do ...

What kinds of trouble do today's teens get into that would be worthy of a spanking?

Your age and life story are pretty close to my own but I do watch a lot of TV and movies. As far as unique to the 21st century teen troubles go, it seems they mostly have to do with technology. They get into online trouble. Cyberbullying, identity theft, getting involved in ill-advised online relationships, computer hacking, sexting or sending racy selfies, driving while texting or talking on cellphone. Plenty of causes there for a spanking!

Going over their phone's limit (minutes or data) comes to mind. Illegal downloads (movies, songs, etc) could lead to a parental type screaming about possible fines and jail time - even if the kid isn't caught there are enough court cases to make parents worry. Streaming and other websites can lead to viruses, trojans, etc. Checking out online porn, or the wrong type of online porn. The class lie of "I'm studying at friend's house" could lead to trouble with they show up in social media streams partying - it doesn't have to be them being stupid enough to post, a friend might post and the parents see it from there.

Getting caught because someone else posted something could also apply to drinking, skipping school, making with someone who is dating someone else, and doing the other stupid things that teenagers always do. When it comes to smoking, it sometimes that tobacco is often treated worse that weed - there was a great episode of House MD when someone could tell his parents about drinking, sleeping around, partying, drug use, etc - but had to hide any hint of tobacco use because his parents were strict anti-smokers.

Or posting something that causes real but unintended harm - say a parent talking politics and losing his job because his boss disagrees with his views. Or post that shows something very embarrassing for a family member.

Just remember that when it comes to online things, there are countless tools that good parents can use to track their kid's online activity - including parental controls and some really great (and legal) spyware. A parent that makes an effort could easily watch every online activity but only "accidentally stumble" across the major things - a bit like how the British broke the Enigma machine but worked hard so that the Germans didn't know they had done it.

I can't recommend that you watch shows targeted at teens, because from what little I've seen they are mostly unrealistic. Today's teen shows are mostly vampires, other worldly stuff, superheroes, etc. As for teen shows on Disney, they seem just as implausible and are aim at tweens. Then again, the Brandy Bunch and Partridge Family weren't documentaries so maybe nothing has changed there.

The problem with plausible modern mischief is that little of it leads to spanking. Spanking as a parenting tool is rapidly become as archaic as the long bow is to ranged combat... which has me wondering if the SCA will one day feature spanking as something that used to exist...

Hey Rikspanks,
Why don't you try "growing up" ? There are lots of us "older ladies" who get up to enough mischief to earn a spanking! There are so many people on this site who enjoy reading about more mature ladies (as in not teenagers as well as older) so maybe you could try your hand(lol)
at a different age group? Just a suggestion!

Another thing that I try sometimes, (with varying degrees of success) is to leave out the specifics of the misdeed entirely! You can simply specify that there has been a misdeed. That leaves you free to focus on the emotions and reactions of the spanker/spankee as well as describing the spanking itself and its aftermath.

Elorac
"There are lots of us "older ladies" who get up to enough mischief to earn a spanking! There are so many people on this site who enjoy reading about more mature ladies (as in not teenagers as well as older) so maybe you could try your hand(lol)
at a different age group? Just a suggestion!"
What can I say? Everybody's "kink" is different, and I happen to have a thing for parental/teacher types of corporal punishment. But if you look at the stories I've posted here, three of my seven standalone stories feature spankees who are 18+, including one story ("Who's the Boss?") where the narrator is 33 years old and spanking his 44-year-old boss. While the story itself is completely fictional, the two main characters are me and my then-boss. My god that woman had a remarkably spankable ass! She's 59 now, and still looks just as spankable. I still see her from time to time, when I stop by that diner where I worked for her, and her elderly parents are currently my "customers" at the retirement home where I cook, and I see her when she comes to visit. In the story where the spankee is 19, ("On Being Faithful") it's implied that her older, non-teenaged sister, the narrator's fiance, is also accustomed to being spanked.

I do have some ideas for parental spanking of older daughters. One idea involves a college sophomore or junior (20-21 years old) coming back home for the summer, only to discover that her father is aware of, and has seen, the adult videos she participated in, which ended up on the Internet. Her father's coworkers are also aware, leading to much embarrassment for the father ...

Although I like the high-tech mischief that others have suggested I also believe that variations on the classic situations are always going to be in style. Some things never change and that certainly holds true for the behavior of the average teenage girl. They are notorious for lying, being sneaky, self-centeredness, sexualizing their clothing and make-up, general family rule breaking and cheating. Pretty much anything that will keep them out of trouble or promote their own goals is fair game for deceptive behavior. Don't even get me started on mean girls. More specifically you have your curfew breakers, your name forgers, your chore slackers, your school ditchers, your back-talkers (including middle-finger displayers), your car takers, those who play pranks on younger siblings, those who are never where they claim to be, the crank callers, the purse thieves, the single parent relationship breakers, the teen tantrums, so on and so on. As a final note, yes I am fully aware that teen-age boys can also be guilty of any of these breaches of acceptable deportment but frankly I don't care.

So why don't you simply set your stories in 1986?