This 32-year-old man has a 36-year-old sister who has three kids. Ten months ago, she welcomed twins, and she already had a son– who is 5-years-old.
So, over the weekend, he and his mom decided to go with his sister and his older nephew to the park to hang out.
But, he claimed that his nephew has been having a rough time with other kids at daycare because, apparently, the other children just don’t want to play with him.
“I’ve been commiserating and feeling bad for my nephew,” he said, “But things came to a head this weekend.”
It all began when they were on the playground, and his nephew was playing in the jungle gym. Eventually, some time passed by, and it was nearly time to head home.
At that point, his sister was busy feeding her twins, and his nephew refused to listen to him or his mom. Instead, his nephew just kept demanding “mom,” his sister.
“There is nothing wrong with this,” he noted, “But when we told my nephew she was busy, he ended up screaming and getting mad.”
Again, he realizes that his nephew is only 5-years-old, so he understood the outburst and wasn’t going to hold the kid to the same standard as an adult.
Nonetheless, his nephew’s anger didn’t subside. Instead, his nephew just wound up spitting at his mom– his nephew’s grandmother– and actually hitting her in the eye.
Now, he acknowledged that the whole thing could have just been an accident.
“So I was trying to tell him that it’s not okay to spit at people as it hurt his grandma’s feelings to have that happen,” he recalled.
Well, his sister was not okay with him disciplining his nephew and ran over to scream at him. His sister also accused him of making his nephew “feel guilty” and tanking his nephew’s self-esteem.
He still didn’t back down, though, and flat-out told his sister that his nephew needed to understand boundaries. Plus, he claimed that his nephew needed to learn that actions have consequences and can sometimes hurt people who love him.
Regardless, his sister didn’t care about any of that and truly believed he was out of line.
“And she told me I don’t have an opinion because I don’t have children,” he vented.
So now, in the wake of their argument, his sister is refusing to talk to him, and he’s been left wondering if saying that his nephew needed to be disciplined was really over the line or not.
Do you agree that children need to be reprimanded, especially after hurting someone else? Is it his place to discipline his nephew as an uncle? Or do you agree with his sister that he was out of line? What would you have done?
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