C.,
I have had this with my sister's 3 out of her 4 children. The they are liars, cheaters,and just plain bad children. I come from a large family I have 9 other siblings.
I see my sisters and their children almost every Saturday. We trade off on whos house is next. These children were so mean that they would purposely hurt the other children no matter what the age of the child was, they would purposly try to hurt my dog and my cats.
Me and my other sisters (not including the Mom of the terrible children) finally sat down and told her that if she did not control, disciple and direct her children to behave that she was going to no longer be at the houses on the weekends or family gatherings.
It was not right that she could yell at ours for doing something or to come run to the parents and tattle on the other children, but when it came time for her to be reprimanded she would just let it all slide.
There are so many things that her 2 boys have done and i dont ahve enough time or most likely space to email it with.
But we were serious and she was removed from the family gathers for several months. Then she had called one of the sisters (never me cause I am the mouthy one and will tell her things that she will not like). Asking to be allowed to be part of the family gatherings.
WE all told her the day she came back that we would not tolerate her children in the behavior they are and if they did not change and if she did not reprimand them not to even come over.
To end she has done better but when they come to my house and they do wrong (not all children are angels or bad) I do not alow them to get away with anything. something they do wrong and it needs to be address then and there I take care of it. If it is something that i will take them to their mom and have her deal with it fine.
last week we were at her house and her youngest son was whipping this "laser" toy at a little girl and of course no one say this but me and I screamed his name to get his attention and his father told me to quit screaming. I proceeded to the nephew removed the laser from him made sure the girl was ok and told him that he was bad. he kept screaming that i can not take his toy away. Bologna I did and I put it up so high that no child can reach it.
Tell your family member ours got so out of hand that months went by before my one sister finally realized that her children were monsters.
J.
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