Certainly nothing like that. Certainly it functions well, as punishments go.

But if she's not going to be fully deprived of company, she doesn't need to be fully deprived of useful work with said company, either.

"It's Avery's birthday tomorrow. I haven't got a present, but I was going to bake something. Cupcakes, maybe. It'd be awful lonely if I was just doing them myself, though."