So we had our first of several family Christmas gatherings yesterday with my immediate family. My brother and myself are both kidless and plan to keep it that way, but our sister has got 3 little boys 6,4, and 8 months. They had conception issues and whatnot so the kids were a great blessing for them, but they are fairly spoiled and get most anything they want with very little discipline. They can be polite when they want to be, but often times they are super rude and will NOT listen to anyone besides their parents. Well anyway, yesterday I got them each some gifts, my girlfriend got them some too, and they had to be reminded to say thank you at which point all they did was look at us for a second and take off. Whatever, it happens sometimes. Well my dad goes and buys these twerps a $2000 snowmobile and gives it to them. Anybody familiar with a Yamaha Sno-Scoot knows these things are a death trap for even a responsible kid much less one who only looks around to see who's watching instead of where he's going. These things go 40 mph and get there in a hurry. So the older one is tearing around the yard wide open and paying zero attention where he's going, so my dad tapes a block of wood behind the throttle to slow it down to 20 or so and the kid lost his mind. Went on a total rampage about how it's not fair and it's not fast enough, etc. Tore my parents' house apart with his tantrum, screaming his head off, so I just asked if he thought Grandpa should take it back to the store since it's too slow, and my sister comes unglued. Called me every name in the book and gave me the whole "when you have kids you can discipline them how you want to but you will never talk to my kids that way" bit, over a simple question. Well fast forward an hour his tantrum is over and I'm still pissed but okay, the little bastard has the audacity to have another fit that he didn't get enough presents. If that were my kid I'd light all his gifts on fire, but their response was that there will be more at the other Grandma's and more again when Santa comes, etc. I had to leave the room. Maybe I'm nuts because I don't have kids of my own, but that seems just plain rude and I kind of want to punch him in his rude little face. My girlfriend is super passive and LOVES kids, but when we got in the car to leave she lost her crap about this too, so I'm not alone. What do y'all parents think about it?