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She suggested that they play video games in the living room instead when lunch was over, and then her sister got involved.
“My sister was annoyed at me over this and told me that a 10-year-old didn’t need that kind of privacy and I was just training him to be rude and inconsiderate,” she explained.
Her sister argued that her own son didn’t need a lock on his bedroom, so her son didn’t need one either.
Unbeknownst to her sister, her nieces and nephews are the exact reason her son even needs a lock at all, but she didn’t bring that up.
Instead, she maintained that she and her husband stood by their decision to allow their son to have a lock and that was it.
Her sister tried another tactic and started pushing her son to allow his cousins in his rooms.
“My son isn’t good at confrontation as I said he’s quiet and he was clearly feeling uncomfortable so I told my sister to lay off and if her kids needed to play so much there was no reason to hang around after lunch as it wasn’t fair to make them sit there bored,” she said.
Her sister didn’t like that, so she stormed out of her house with her kids right behind her. Her sister complained to their parents, and she’s been accusing her of being “rude” for letting her son have the lock.
Her sister also thinks she’s setting her son up to be selfish for not forcing him to share everything he owns with his cousins.
She has always ensured that her son gets permission from his cousins to play with their toys when they go to her sister’s house, yet her kids never treat her son and his belongings with the same level of respect.
“Our parents are taking my sister’s side, stating that family shares things and besides having his cousins round to play will help make my son less shy and how he doesn’t need privacy that young,” she continued.
