Have you ever gone to a friend's house for an evening, and felt like you were watching a video of "How to raise your child to be a brat?"?

Seriously….this kid, three years old, was still up when we left at midnight. He was kicking things, like the dog, throwing things, and they’d just ignore it until he did it about the 5th time. Then they’d threaten him with bed if he didn’t stop. Of course, as he got more and more tired he got more and more wound up…and they never just put him to bed. They did tell him several times that if he didn’t stop acting like a ‘brat’ they were going to Do Something….but never did. What is WRONG with some people? How can they not see what they’re doing?
And then, when the kid grows up and is a juvenile delinquent they’ll be the parents saying “I just don’t know what happened to him! He was such a sweet child!”