The Bert Show.

Bert Show listener Lisa, how are you today?

I'm good. How are you?

Good. You have us all intrigued already because I kind of pre-promoted what you were going

to talk about a couple of minutes ago and we're already starting to fight about it.

Yep. Oh, no. So go ahead. Tell everybody else what's going on with you and your sister.

Okay, I have an older sister. She has three kids. She's a great mom.

And this past weekend, the two older ones had to go to a soccer tournament and she

left the youngest one with me.

He's my son's age, or she's sorry, she's my son's age, five.

And the whole day she was just acting up, she was being very rude. She was using

bad language. And my son was copying her example as kids do. And he just, you know, they're

good friends. They play all the time. But she was just a tear this whole, the whole day. And, you know, they're good friends. They play all the time, but she was just a terror this whole, the whole day.

And, you know, my son knows that when he acts like that, he gets spanking and that's

just the way that it works in our house.

And I'm, of course, never hitting him hard.

It's usually, he's more afraid of the actual act than the act itself, the threat of it, which is why it works.

And so I spanked my niece and her behavior completely changed.

And she acted toward me with more respect.

She was no longer influencing my son, and then they played nicely for the rest of the day, and it was really nice. But when my sister came to pick her up that evening, I told her, you know, your daughter was acting up, and, you know, I had to spank her.

She had never seen her act like this before, and as much as this.

And so I just went ahead and did it.

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