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How to handle inconsistent discipline across two homes

My co-parent never follows through on consequences so our 10-year-old has learned to manipulate the inconsistency and now plays us against each other constantly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When parents cannot align on boundaries, children often fill the void with their own attempts at control, creating chaos no one intended.

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