Brigham's Parenting Skills

The other night Brigham was tossing things off of his bunk bed onto
Jacob. He had been doing the same thing earlier to his cousin Sam.
Holly had just about had it with him and slammed hiis sword down on
the bed rail and told him he needed to stop it. Brigham's finger was
right near where she had hit with the sword and he started screaming
that she had hit his finger. I walked into the room just as this was
happening and Brigham started crying that we were a "bad mommy and
daddy".

I told him that if he didn't start obeying his mom I was going to call
the kid police. This resulted in more tears and accusations of
incompetent parenting. He said that I shouldn't do those things
because they make him sad. Here is how the conversation went:

G: Well what should I do to punish you then?

B: I don't know.

G: What would you do if you had a little boy who didn't obey?

B: My little boy would obey me.

G: Then why don't you obey me?

B: Because you haven't taught me to. I would teach my boy to obey.

He then started telling me how much his finger hurt - he just couldn't
remember which one. He kept looking at all of his fingers and said,
"It hurts really bad - I just can't feel it".