Who invented the concept of taking privileges in parenting, and where did the philosophy originate?

It couldn't have been B. F. Skinner? I wouldn't be surprised.

It almost seems odd how this exact phrasing has spread around the country, almost universally meaning taking away a gift.

Perhaps it simultaneously acts as an aversive and sends the message that minors don't truly own anything (even as a gift), or that even the owner of a play house or movie house can confiscate anything of yours at will?

Perhaps it sends the message that the person who pays the fifty cents a year to keep a Nintendo DS Lite charged gets to control it at the end of the day?