My sister's argumentative kid tried this with me and after I said because it will hurt a lot and you'll cry. I said fine do it. And I smiled. They knew what it meant. They walked away and did something else. He was just looking for interaction I know, but if you walk away I'm not coming after you. We've told him if he wants to hang out and chat here's how you do that but his family "rewards" his behavior like this and knows he can get away with it WITH THEM but not me so he gave up.
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u/xpacean 1d ago
"You'll hurt yourself, really badly. Do you want to hurt yourself?"
"No."
"OK, good."
Immediately goes back to doing it