@meso @creamqueen @anemone @mia @teratology if your kid is disagreeable, I pity you.

one of my sisters tried that style, and wouldn't you know it for her only kid she ended up with a live wire. they were completely helpless to impose any discipline on him, because they would never lay down the law. He would hit, he would bite, he would take other kids toys and break them. he would be awake at 2am, having gotten his mother's phone out of her purse and playing it when he wasn't supposed to NEGOTIATING for five more minutes on a phone that he SHOULD ABSOLUTELY NOT HAVE HAD ACCESS tO.

I had to say out loud (I have a habit unfortunately) "why is this even a question?" Like just take it away and put him to bed, this is unacceptable!

dunno what's gonna happen to him, but he spends a lot of time with his cousins and they were raised pretty well, so they're rubbing off on him. He behaves when he's around them, because they will just stop playing with him if he gets mean. A group of five to seven year olds was able to do what his parents were helpless to.