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« on: December 23, 2017, 02:58:35 PM »
So the Christmas holiday is upon us. Anyone have any crazy family in town? Or going out to visit any? Have any crazy left-wing or right-wing or Illuminati-wing relatives to verbally spar with?
If any of you recall stories of my brother-in-law, he and his family are staying with us for the holidays this year. He has gotten mildly better at controlling his sons, but it’s still a lot of them throwing and trashing shit, his wife trying to do something about, but she’s mostly unable due to years of him undermining her authority and not taking any action to control the kids. He also passed the buck to me when my wife and her sister left to run errands. So I give the kids hard “no” answers when they try to grab shit they shouldn’t of try to eat 90 snacks on my floor... and then listen to them whine to him in the other room about me.
My oldest daughter did make me laugh though. My wife was decorating cookies with the kids, and naturally his kids were being messy. No big deal because some messiness is to be expected. My wife did have chastise their oldest when he started licking his fingers and touching the cookies. Brother-in-Law was his kid was a little upset by being told “no” and said, “It’s ok. Sometimes it’s hard to remember all the rules.”
To which my daughter flatly replied, “No it isn’t.” It was a proud moment to see my first grade daughter call out a full grown man’s weak parenting.