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What would you do?

My niece is 9 years old and addicted to her phone. She's staying over for the holidays and despite us telling her she needs to get up early she is sleeping later and later. (Mind when she does get up she only bullies her brother till his in tears)
3 days in a row we asked her to get up (The first day we had tickets at the cinema booked online and couldn't get a refund) and she deliberately slept through. Didn't get up today till 4pm!
Told her we weren't happy so she called her mum to get her asap. Her mum said she's coming. She finishes work at 11 and is driving 2:30hrs to get here to take her home.
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PinkMoon · 26-30, F
I'd let her fetch her undisciplined defiant child. She was always going to cry and get her mother to come because clearly her mother has yielded to her tantrums. That's why she is so defiant. She's used to getting her way. Her caregivers have enabled her negative behavior as opposed to shaming it. She doesn't recognize adults as authority figures,she sees them as people she can manipulate with her behavior in order to get her way. The older she grows the bolder her lies and manipulation will be. For your own safety don't host her again unless you have cameras in the house to disprove any claims she may make. She's already displaying vindictive and abusive behavior,she's not to be trusted. She needs some sort of therapy.
OverTheHill · 61-69, M
She is probably on her phone all night long. If she cannot respect your household, then it is just as well that she go back home. Sorry it couldn't have been a better time for you all.
RebelRaven · 51-55, F
A squirt bottle works well to get a kid like her up. That mum is in for a battle if she’s already like this. I care for teens like this, it’s challenging to say the least.
PinkMoon · 26-30, F
@RebelRaven I was thinking the same thing. When those teenage hormones hit she's going to be a nightmare.

 
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