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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids are a work in progress. Sounds like you had a great day with your niece and then had one negative incident. For a 7yo, that sounds typical.

I guarantee your kids sometimes do things wrong. I know they do, because they are kids and all kids are still figuring it all out. When your kids do one wrong thing after doing great for hours, do you think “Wow, I guess it’s time to rethink my entire parenting approach because my kids are brats and I’m a failure— I should call my judgmental sister and have her tell me what to do.”

No? I’m guessing your sister doesn’t either.

Glad you are taking a break from your niece as you clearly are not in a place where you can deal with normal 7yo behavior.[/quote]

It’s equal parts hilarious and pathetic that you think haranguing an ADULT over an accident with a child in a public place when you are SEVEN YEARS OLD is “normal behavior.” LOL.[/quote]

I didn't say that yelling at the woman was "normal". I said it was pretty normal for a 7 yo to do well for most of the outing and then have one bad moment. When OP said "my sister is raising a bratty kid," I assumed she would describe a child who just constantly demands things from people and is ungrateful and rude. Instead, she described a lovely day at the part that ended with a single, deeply unfortunate, incident. For 7, that's pretty standard. It doesn't mean the child's behavior was acceptable, it means that kids this age rarely have perfect management of their behavior and emotions and that it is super, super common for a kid this age to do something upsetting like this on occasion.

A child who is mostly great but then occasionally awful is... normal. That's why kids don't head off to college at age 7. They are still learning and need tons of guidance. OP is acting like it's unreasonable for her niece to make a bad mistake and what I'm saying is that it's predictable. OP's response is the childish one to me, because OP is an adult and she's responding to this one bad incident by blaming her sister, indicting her young niece like she's irredeemable, and throwing a fit to strangers online. And OP is an adult. That's much more troubling to me.[/quote]

THIS. It's super concerning behavior for an adult to refuse to hang out with a 7 year old for having a bad day.[/quote]

Every single play date, dinner, and etc is a challenge with this kid. I had enough

SUPER![/quote][/quote]

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