anyone remember that short lived tv series "the slap"?
When I saw it, I kept thinking, not only would that kid have gotten slapped, a few of my elder aunts and my grandmother would have reached across the table and slapped the parents. lol.
My brothers and sister all have permission to discipline my kids if they act like park apes. I trust them. had my nephew acted that way he would still have gotten a gift hte next year because I would have snatched him up by his collar immediately and taught him the proper response.
As my mother would say, "now you can listen to your elders and get some manners or I can take a 2X4 and knock some manners into you but either way by the end of day you will have learn how to be polite"