Maz - I know exactly what you mean - when I read your consequence my stomach fell and I thought - wow she is a much stronger parent than me - I wouldn't have been game as I know the tantrums that would have ensued for weeks - but we have had to do similar at times. Something I found helped (don't know if it's the "right" thing to do as far as parenting rules but it works for us) is to say - yep it's gone but... you work it back up by doing this right and this right (we have to be specific - as you would understand) and we keep a chart and then I might take him somewhere equivilent or whatever the consequence removed was. I don't know - often I think I am teaching him he can do the wrong thing and make up for it but at the same time it seems to work with how our DS thinks and we haven't had any reprocussions (yet :-)

Hope the fall out isn't too bad