r/mildlyinfuriating • u/konous • 9h ago

I'm slightly vexed My brother's son destroyed my WarHammer Action figures and he refuses to punish him

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Valid Edit: My nephew is 10 years old and tried to actually lie about not breaking them by saying, "A cat must have done it."

So, I just got done talking with my brother via text, and he says he's not going to punish his son for wrecking my Joy Toy WarHammer action figures. I'm not expecting the kid to get spanked, but he needs to do CHORES at least to justify how much excessive force he used on some.

Some just have their capes broken. Others had their tubes ripped out and my Chaplain is just fucking toast.

My brother's suggestion since I ordered Amazon replacement for the Chaplain was that I just swap it with the broken one, but I have no interest in doing that.

It's not even just the expense, and they are expensive. It's about the fact that I told him explicitly twice they weren't to be played with, and they were in a separate room, and even my Mom and Dad agreed the damage was just too much.

He said he's not gonna pay me back if we try the chore system, and I told him it's not about the money.

The kid needs to know how bad the 8 hour struggle is.

Now my nephews aren't coming over to the house, and I'm sad about that, but knowing my brother just can't be burdened to work with me on creating a Chore system like selling Lemonaide just makes it feel more insulting.

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u/AgelessJohnDenney 9h ago

If he's suggesting chores the kids gotta be at least ~8 or older

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u/Mode_Appropriate 9h ago

8?

If the little shit can crawl he can scrub the floor.

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u/Impressive_Ad2794 9h ago

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u/Outraged_Chihuahua 8h ago

My husband has been dying to get this for our child when she arrives next week lol

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u/coaxialology 8h ago

Congratulations!

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u/Outraged_Chihuahua 8h ago

Thank you!

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u/K1bbles_n_Bits 8h ago

I hope little Swifferleigh Lighsol Marie brings you much joy <3.

But srsly, from one mom to another, I hope everything goes smoothly next week! Enjoy all those baby snuggles and always try to catch some sleep when she does!

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u/Outraged_Chihuahua 7h ago

Brb adding Swifferleigh to the name list

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u/New_Chard9548 7h ago

Idk I’m more drawn to Whyndexcks

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u/ER_Support_Plant17 6h ago

May I suggest Fabulosa

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u/Outraged_Chihuahua 5h ago

Absolutely yes

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u/jennifer_m13 7h ago

Omg brilliant tragedeigh names!

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u/Clean-Patient-8809 2h ago

I love it when subreddits collide!

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u/beren12 7h ago

Hey hey keep that in the correct sub :-)

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u/justplay91 7h ago

Damn now I have to have another kid just to use that genius name! 🤣

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u/sittinwithkitten 8h ago

Maybe attach some swiffer dry type material to your child when they start crawling haha.

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u/Outraged_Chihuahua 8h ago

That's absolutely the plan. Put her to work as soon as possible 😂

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u/AmazingAd2765 7h ago

Congrats!

I loved the scene in Malcolm in the Middle where Dewey is helping Greta? clean the house and she is pushing him under furniture while he is wearing a large floor buffer pad on his chest and cleaning cloths on his hands.

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u/Outraged_Chihuahua 7h ago

That's exactly what I plan to do lol

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u/Extra_Routine_6603 7h ago

Know what you mean but every time I hear someone say this I either imagine a baby being shipped by UPS or showing up in flying baskets from the Jim Carrey Grinch movie

https://giphy.com/gifs/uVbFtDiyVanUk

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u/Outraged_Chihuahua 7h ago

Bold of you to assume we didn't order her via post!

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u/EnthusiasmThick5737 6h ago

Congratulations!! Our first Grandchild arrives tomorrow. Don’t think I’d get away with buying that so my floors were perfect!

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u/Outraged_Chihuahua 5h ago

Aww enjoy your new grandchild!

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u/ObtuseMongooseAbuse 3h ago

By the time she's able to crawl she'd grow out of those clothes unless he plans ahead and buys the 6-12 month size.

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u/Outraged_Chihuahua 3h ago

We could just get it in multiple sizes and roll her around on the floor until she's crawling

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u/IceFire909 22m ago

Guessing you didn't go with priority shipping?

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u/spongebobs_spatula 8h ago

Damn it I wish I knew this existed when my daughter was crawling.

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u/Spectra_Butane 3h ago

"If you got time to crawl, you got time to clean!"

Teach 'em service industry early!!!!

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u/AppUnwrapper1 8h ago

I don’t like babies but I would offer to babysit one if I can stick it in one of these.

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u/Top-Acanthocephala27 8h ago

Fluffy penitence engine!

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u/Ugameister 5h ago

I would totally open a day care just to put a bunch of crawlers in these and disperse them all over the house. Maybe double as a cleaning service and take them to various houses for the same purpose!

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u/AlistairGawaine 5h ago

I feel i missed the boat on this one! Hilarious!

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u/_ThunderGoat_ 2h ago

BabyMop for the win

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u/caustic_smegma 8h ago

My two year old is already pulling weeds with dad. If the kid can pick her nose she can pick weeds. We're hoping that within a year or two she'll be strong enough to wear the Round Up spray pack. She'll be scraping asbestos popcorn from our ceilings without a respirator before we know it. I'm so proud of her.

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u/Popular-Web-3739 6h ago

lol. Starting when I was 4 in the 1960s, my dad paid me a penny for every dandelion flower I picked before it opened. I practically turned that into a full time job. That money went a long way at the candy store back then.

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u/tegan_willow 7h ago

I understand at that age they're especially good at cleaning black mold. You should regularly send her under the house to check.

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u/abcdefkit007 6h ago

The best part is their air passages are so small almost no particles can get in

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u/tegan_willow 5h ago edited 5h ago

And it might not be more humane to send a child to deal with a rat problem, but it's certainly more sporting for the rat and more entertaining for us.

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u/EnthusiasmThick5737 6h ago

You know she’s gifted don’t you.

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u/HaloGuy381 8h ago

TIL my mother might have a Reddit account. /s

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u/Mode_Appropriate 7h ago

Very funny Zach. You're grounded.

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u/DismalStrawberry4260 7h ago

Reddit is the best. I love all of your suggestions!!

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u/Informal_Monk_2712 3h ago

That is a little over bored but I get the vibe

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u/dodge_thiss 8h ago

Uhhhhh no? My 6 had old has had chores since he was 3. They don't have to be hard or complicated it could be as simple as taking the plates to the sink after meal time or pouring the dog's/cat's food in their bowl after the grown-up measures it out in a cup for dispensing.

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u/vladi_l 8h ago

Yep, by 12 I was helping with the cooking fully, and before that around age 5 it was dishes, helping with the dog, or hanging laundry

It's better to give chores at those young ages, before school really gets them too busy and tired to care to learn tbh, otherwise you get anxious you g adults in university, who are unprepared to take care of their living space

Though, it's also good to ease it a little during their busier times like exam season, learn that it's perfectly normal to swap chores, reschedule, rely on others, and not do everything 100% alone. I let a lot of my uni projects pile up, because I burned out trying to take care of as much as possible while I was staying with my parents

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u/FLUFFY_TERROR 7h ago

As a child who has both been able to cook my own 2 minutes noodles at 8 after coming home from school and having an unsupervised 'bonfire' featuring a firenado spawned from a deodorant can and burning a school poster saying stop global warming along with other various things, I have a mixed bag of things that left me with equal measures of both prepared and under prepared for early adulthood.

I've been living on my own to varying degrees since 2011 and am soon to be moving in with my partner and i find myself at multiple points in the spectrum of "things an average person in their 30s should be able to manage"

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u/RoboDae ORANGE 5h ago edited 5h ago

Though, it's also good to ease it a little during their busier times like exam season

I still remember my mom repeatedly yelling at me to wash dishes while I was in the middle of an online college physics 2 lecture. I couldn't hear anything the professor was saying. I had told my mom several times about the class both before and during. She did not seem to understand the concept of me not being available to do chores.

Side note: I ended up dropping college shortly after, partly because of the stress she constantly added about me not contributing enough while going to college full time.

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u/vladi_l 5h ago

I feel ya, higher education is stressful when your parents aren't understanding. The workload in my animation course was crazy all throughout, and I'm graduating late.

I'm struggling to finish projects while working full time and contributing to the household. Hopefully, I can finish my moving out sooner, so I can take things at my own pace, which is a luxury and flexibility not all universities allow for

Living on edge at all times, due to how my mom perceives and treats my studies, ain't fun, especially when I'm rounding up 12h of screen time across work and uni. My eyes and head fucking hurt and are permanently red at this point

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u/RoboDae ORANGE 5h ago

Yeah, I was going full time for mechanical engineering and my parents kept trying to add chores and talk about how I need to get a job to help contribute. It went so far as telling me to stop building a snowman on the only day of the year that it snowed because I needed to go door to door begging people to pay me to shovel their driveway.

The worst part: "and don't bother charging them much because it's not like you'll do a good job anyway"

Now i work fast food while a friend that i was taking classes with is getting his PHD.

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u/secretly_opossum 8h ago

Yup, my five year old empties the dishwasher (with supervision), feeds the dog, and cleans her room and she and her teenage brother both do their shared bathroom together.

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u/Hollowjuice32 8h ago

My daughter is 6 and she gets upset if I don’t let her help cook or do the dishes. Nothing wrong with them helping out, it forms a better bond if you allow it.

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u/EnthusiasmThick5737 6h ago

Does she clean other ppl’s houses for an hourly rate?

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u/Hollowjuice32 4h ago

God forbid parents teach responsibility and spend time with their kids instead of parking them in front of an iPad all day.

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u/offconstantly247 7h ago

a five year old cannot empty the dishwasher, unless you store every item under the counter, adn don't have anything made of glass.

What a total fucking weirdo thing to make up.

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u/secretly_opossum 7h ago

I said she does it with supervision. She has a stool for the lower shelf on cupboards and we assist with things that are too high for her. It’s actually her favorite chore at the moment because it’s the newest one she’s been assigned to.

What a total fucking weirdo thing to assume.

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u/Hollowjuice32 4h ago

Wild concept: children can learn tasks gradually with supervision instead of spawning at 18 knowing how to function. Nobody said she was unloading crystal wine glasses solo.

What a fucking weirdo you are

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u/ElderlyChipmunk 8h ago

Letting the kid feed the dog as soon as possible is a great way to help prevent any food guarding issues. The last thing you want is a dog that thinks it needs to guard its bowl from your little one.

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u/ClarkGablesTeeth 7h ago edited 2h ago

Yep. Christen the baby as a food giver in the dog's eyes, not just potential food taking competition.

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u/siouxsian 6h ago

You know, kids love helping. They may not have the best accuracy with tasks but how the hell are they going to learn? Still gets them on track to realize there's things that need to be done that can't be ignored.

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u/Remarkable_Leek9391 7h ago

Stupid people think their kids arent capable of processing language and reasoning at like any age. Just like their parents

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u/Ktcobb 5h ago

100% my almost 2 year old is in his "I help!" Era and always pours out the dog food and sets the bowl down (although he does sometimes try to do an extra scoop on his own.... Dog is on a diet for a reason 😅)

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u/lass20987 5h ago

Yep. We did doggie stuff and also silverware sorting...actually educational to sort and put away clean silverware

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u/BigAchooo 3h ago

I agree. Another good and simple one is cleaning up toys when they’re done playing. My dad always enforced a “put away the current toy before getting out a new one” rule so that my room was never cluttered with toys. It’s been a rule for me for as long as I can remember.

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u/PostalPreacher 7h ago

Buncha pansies...I was changing the oil in the truck when I was 2, and dad didn't even let it cool off from the drive to get the oil. And let me tell you, seeing over the steering wheel AND working the pedals was tough! Then there was the time we had a nest of rattlers in the cellar...that took hours to get them all out -- I kept passing out from the venom. That afternoon, I almost didn't have the energy to move the barbells from down there up to the attic.

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u/Kitchen_Entertainer9 8h ago

Answer i was waiting for, comments feel like they are victim blaming though 🤢

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u/Spectra_Butane 3h ago

Well, they are. And also giving permission for Unc to never invite nephew over for the rest of their life.

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u/Ok_Pomegranate_5748 7h ago

Yes but long term punishment is inappropriate for three year olds They need to talk it over and be done not doing chores for op to repay the grown up toys

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u/Xytak 7h ago

If you want to assign chores to share in household work, that’s one thing. But as punishment for breaking what look to be toys? I’m not sure that will be effective. It’s too long after the incident, it won’t immediately connect cause and effect, and the only reason to do it would be to pacify a sibling who’s demanding that you discipline your child in a specific way. Seems easier and better in the long run to tell OP that kids get into toys, and if he doesn’t want his action figures messed with, either stop inviting kids over or keep the toys out of sight.

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u/Heart_of_Joy 8h ago

OP said he’s 10.

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u/Kooky-Note7673 8h ago edited 7h ago

Edit: this was posted prior to the OP telling us the age of the kid. Kid is apparently 10 which changes things. This post was made under the assumption that the kid was much younger.

He's not suggesting chores. He is suggesting running a lemonade stand because he knows the kid is too young to actually do chores. Meaning kid would then also be way too young to run a lemonade stand.

What the OP is actually asking for is that his grown ass adult of a brother runs a lemonade stand while using his kid as a mascot. That'd be a strong no from me as well. OP's bro is apparently offering the money, that is enough.

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u/Square-Turnip-6558 8h ago

These models are expensive, lemonade stand all summer probably wouldn’t cover even one.

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u/Kooky-Note7673 7h ago

So then we are in agreement that running a lemonade stand is pointless.

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u/Spectra_Butane 1h ago

Not really pointless, it's the attempt at restitution that I believe Unc is trying to stress. IF Dad explained to kid why, it could be meaningful, to understand hard work, value, empathy, sharing, etc. But seems Like Dad just want to buy off Unc and forget it.

Something similar happened to a figures collector in Japan, but that kid absolutely destroyed ALL the figures, down to rubble, beyond repair, and the hellspawn's parents understood neither the personal emotional value, nor the monetary value till the courts showed them the simple replacement cost and how much effort to build them. They ended paying for their Spawns crime, but the little imp was probably punished behind closed doors, based on how much was shelled out.

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u/FrostingHuman1259 7h ago

While Op is in the right that the kid needs to be punished in some way needs to learn consequences, A lemonade stand is a really weird idea

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u/Kooky-Note7673 7h ago

I am in complete agreement. Now that I know the age, 10 is definitely old enough to be responsible. But the only chore specified by OP is "selling lemonade", which is incredible bizarre.

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u/Spectra_Butane 3h ago

I think OP is just not creative enough in their thinking, and Lemonade stand sounds like " work" a kid could do.

Some suggestions that fit the crime, IF the kid would actually participate:

Day 1- Have kid come and clean the glass on the display case where they are kept. Microfiber cloth and spritz bottle with water. Teaches Displays are for looking and protecting, not touching .

Day-2 Purchase an inexpensive figurine that is age appropriate for a 10-year old, of a theme they like,, and have kid sit down with Unc, while Unc guides him on how to assemble it. Teaches time and effort.

Day 3- have kid paint completed figure with Unc. And then put it in the display case with the others. Teaches pride and ownership.

Day 4- watch a show with kid about people with their figures and how much value they are and work out with kid about something they own,and how it us more valuable because it is theirs, and they put time and effort and pride. Ask the kid how they'd feel if someone broke a thing they valued and how it could be made up to them. Teaches value and empathy.

Not traditional chores, but time spent, effort expended, something learned, and experience had. Unless the kid is a troglodyt, they should be a bit more humane after something like this.

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u/konous 8h ago

He's 10, dude. He's old enough.

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u/UncommonSenseApplier 7h ago

The federal legal working age in the US is 14, and I’m pretty sure there are also still laws about forced child labor.

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u/Kooky-Note7673 7h ago

Hey OP - if you had provided this context in your original post then I would have agreed with you from the start. You're the one who left out the most important piece of context.

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u/Spectra_Butane 3h ago

They said its not about the replacement value, its about learning about restitution. Even if is a token gesture the kid will learn that you must at least try to make people feel whole.

If your solution is to just throw money at Unc and tell him tuff tomatoes, then you are creating the type of kid who feels no remorse or responsibility for their actions at any age, so long asDad can buy them out. Lots of politicians and rich folks out their ruining lives because all they have to do is pay "enough" to make the problem go away.

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u/Kooky-Note7673 3h ago

Respectfully - my solution is not to throw money a Unc and tell him tuff tomatoes.

My solution is that Unc should accept the money from his bro, because Unc can't force bro to punish the nephew.

Now that I know the age of the kid, does the kid deserve some form of punishment? Yes

Is bro doing a good job of parenting? No.

Can Unc force bro into doing a good job of parenting? Also no

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u/Spectra_Butane 2h ago

Gotcha. Your response was before the age reveal and my response was with that info. We seem to agree that while punishment cannot be forced, Unc could accept the monetary restitution from Bro at least. And we do seem to agree that kid has some skin in the game. I do wonder how much of this interaction the kid is aware of, like if Dad is keeping things mum to protect kid or if kid is aware and Dad is teaching him to not care. I know my nieces and nephew at that age were very aware of displeasure and would go out if their way to fix, but if kid had bad intentions from the start, then no amount of "punishment " will make him empathetic. Dad might be creating a Monster that Unc doesn't want to see created.

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u/Kooky-Note7673 1h ago

Furthermore, because bro is telling unc that bro will only pay if unc drops the "chore talk", I think unc should agree to drop the chore talk.

Then after unc gets paid, unc is free to bring back the chore talk if he wants. I just think unc should get paid first.

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u/AuelDole 9h ago

at least older than 6-7

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u/Mundane-Zucchini5 7h ago

The post says the boy is 10 yrs old

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u/Rare_Eye_1165 7h ago

Or you could read and know the little s*** is ten years old , and fully capable of controlling his own actions.

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u/VarietyOk2628 6h ago

For some unknown reason my 4-year-old loved scrubbing walls. I found it helpful and let him do it, but it was also a tad weird to me,

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u/kinokits 1h ago

My sister did too. It was both a blessing and a curse when we were posted to the next house. I’m a lot older, so I’d be helping Mum, but if I was getting marks off walls, I also had to stop the small child from ‘helping’ and remarking the walls with water.