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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think what BIL did initially was fine. Then you escalated. Then they escalated. Why did you cry?![/quote]

OP here. I did not cry. My kids did.  What did I do to escalate?[/quote]

Sorry - I misread about the crying for you. You escalated by intervening and running out of the room with her when he was handling it. [/quote]

PP, I think you are the one adding the touch of drama here, making it sound like OP sprinted out of the room in anguish. Of course OP removed the child from the room. BIL - while right about getting the child off the sofa arm - had at that point lost control of his temper and his behavior and was about to get physical with a  4yo. Leaving the room so everyone could settle down was the only reasonable option. BIL himself seemed to have recognized that he handled himself badly. Why can't you, PP?

OP, you handled it correctly. Ideally you would have been the one on the scene to tell your child "no" first, but you did what you could with the situation. I would have been furious too. We don't manhandle our kids, and we sure as hell don't manhandle anyone else's. It's possible to be firm with our acting like a domineering a$$hole.[/quote]

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