Another question to the parents out there reading this: what do you tell your kids when they are being nasty and say thinks like "Mom's house is so much better than yours" and "everything there is so much better than here" and "I wish I would be there right now and not in this horrible place"?
That's a tricky thing. Two reasons for that kind of behavior: Either you are coming down on them in ways she doesn't, or some sort of parental alienation. If it is alienation, better get a grasp on that real quick-like.
There are moments in this life when you are so confident in the rightness of your actions, that not even for a second do you consider the option that you might be wrong.
