Spare the rod, spoil the child

[Chad32]

Honestly I don't know how to get my nieces to actually do something without getting rough with them, though that's probably more a sign that I don't relly know how to deal with unruly children. They won't go sit in a corner, and if I take their stuff they just keep whining to get it back. Like when one niece kept dropping her tablet on the ground because her hands were full of other stuff. I took the tablet and told her she would have to choose to hold the stuffed cat or the tablet. Instead she just kept whining to get the tablet back until my mom told me to return it. In her defense, though, they were actually about to leave the house and the niece was allowed to take the tablet to the car.

I bring the fun when I come over, as they say, so when I'm trying to be serious they don't take me seriously.