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Somehow came across this old thread...

Update: My sister continues to be a narcissistic enabler...

Last Christmas, she was out Houston way with her son. He is a weird kid. I mean really weird. And she is the massive enabler of all his bad behavior.

Dinner at my house including my elderly parents. He wants to go play with his phone or tablet or whatever. He starts to slide down his chair, ever so slowly, under the table and then crawls/tries to crawl away. He is 12. Not 3 or 4, but 12 and doing wacky stuff like this. I nicely asked him to stay until we all finished dinner. My sister scolded me, pretty much told me to mind my own business and just be "The Fun Uncle".

A few months before, they visited my older sister. Whatever they were having for dinner the kid was not going to eat. So my oldest sister's husband made him a homemade pizza. He said, verbatim, "I'm not going to eat that. It's poison." - If only.....

Last week, she calls me up with a "Math Problem" as she is trying to teach her kid basically long division (have I mentioned he's 12 and a freaking genius?"). It is "percentages", and she can't figure out how she dropped the decimal. After telling me I'm teaching it wrong and using "engineering tricks", I pretty much had it, and told her so. "Don't you want to help your nephew? I THOUGHT you'd be interested in his schooling."

Really? Not really.

She turns 57 next month. Kid turns 13 in July. Only 5 more years to adulthood...I'll update the thread again, then....