You decide:

The dishes, garbage and dirty laundry would pile up for days when Cat and Harlan Barnard's teenage children refused to do their chores. So the Barnards went on strike, moving out of their house and into a domed tent set up in their front driveway. The parents refuse to cook, clean or drive for their children — Benjamin, 17, and Kit, 12 — until they shape up.

Which sounds exactly 180 degrees out of what I personally think should have been done. Disobedient kids are not going to be "punished" by leaving them in a rent-free, fully furnished house, no matter how dirty it gets. Any college student will tell you that. Even more outrageous:

Benjamin [the oldest boy] returned from school on Wednesday to find a dozen reporters in his parents' front lawn. He refused to say anything to them and went into the house followed by his mother, who tried to console him.

Nope. To me, this is dumb and sends the wrong signal. The kids are being punished. Consoling them just confuses the issue.

I hope my kid will have enough discipline and respect for themselves and others to ensure some sort of extreme punishment is never required. However, I do know that I'm quite cold and heartless enough that, were something like this to be necessary, it wouldn't be me sleeping on the lawn.