wow, 9 days and she's ready to go postal...that's like a new record for the USPS I sympathize...or empa- oh whatever
It's really rude to scream at your children when guests are in the house. That's like no sense of propriety. I mean say all you want about reinforcement and how it has to be done when the child does something you want to prevent, but shit, tell them that you'll speak to them later about it. They aren't animals that don't have a sense of timeliness. You can't hit a dog a hour after they do something, that's not gonna reinforce shit, a child can understand what he did wrong. I dunno, I'm not a psychologist, but damn.
...ok, the kid deserved it he could hurt someone. He did...I dunno...blah