Host kicks out brother and his 4 and 6-year-olds after the kids destroy the home office and garden, and the parents refuse to enforce any consequences for their children’s behavior

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• AITJ for kicking my brother and his kids out after his son destroyed my home office and he refused to do anything about it

  
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• What makes it a sitcom gone wrong is the parents’ approach to discipline. They do not yell they do not enforce boundaries they just sit the kid down and ask what feelings led to that choice. It sounds like something you hear in a therapy novella not an actual parenting plan.  

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• Then the kids start treating the house like a daycare with no supervisors. The daughter spills juice all over the desk soaked papers dried sugar on the keyboard. The son goes outside and treats the garden like a demolition project piling up a neat little heap of herbs that took months to grow. The sliding glass door gets chipped thanks to a toy truck fired at full speed. The cat is cornered tail‑yanked chased around like a living stress ball. Every time the host looks at the brother expecting him to say something it is just emotional archaeology instead of basic control.  

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• By day two the host is sick of watching destruction get greeted with group therapy. The cat is hiding furniture is stained glass is chipped garden is ruined and the brother is lecturing about feelings instead of consequences. The moment the host finally lays down a rule about the office and the cat the brother flips and says it is not his place to parent. That is the line where niceness turns into a practical eviction.  

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• The choice is obvious. The house is a rental not a lab for experimental parenting. The host gives them a simple ultimatum leave tonight in a hotel or drive home. The brother calls it controlling and says they are choosing furniture over family.  

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• Of course they are not wrong here. They are just the person who finally said that some boundaries are not about being cold they are about basic sanity.

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