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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  This is exactly how we grew up. She's always been more lax on rules and structure, but this week seems particularly bad.  I've always been more "together" than my sister  I do not have children.  We live 5 hours from them, but they will be moving to the west coast at the end of the month.

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Before other parents jump on you for daring to judge while having no children of your own, I'm going to support your reaction to the train wreck you've just experienced.

We recently had a single mom come by to visit. She describes her son as "all boy" and acts helpless whenever her child has a complete meltdown. Repeatedly.

I'm a single mom too, and have made it my personal mission to raise children who know how to behave. We each put in a good amount of effort to meet up regularly. I like her a lot. It's sad that I'll have to put an end to visits at my home. My kids talked about the behavior, which astonished them, after they were in bed. I told them it was because he's a baby at daycare, while they're in big kid school. They didn't really buy it because they'd never behaved like that at that age.

You'll get flack because how dare you have an opinion since you don't have children. Uh, it's valid. You've never suggested that it would be easy to raise children. You didn't even point to the children as the problem, but your cray cray sister.

I'm sorry that you had this disappointing experience. You just wanted to vent. But if you are interested in being a positive influence, you can always offer to take the kids off their hands for a few hours, here and there. Without ever commenting on your sister's methods, you could introduce them to different experiences, a different way of living. You could provide a sense of safety and be someone they can come to in the future with school, friend, family questions.
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