While every parent will have to deal with some bad behavior from time to time, some will encounter their child doing something that genuinely scares them.
And sometimes it's not because the child is about to injure themselves or showing signs that they'll be on a most wanted list later in life, but because they start treating people in a way we tend to associate with the worst adults.
Whether this was influenced by another family member or the child's peers, most parents will want to nip their child's cruelty at the bud.
But as we'll see in one story of a mom dealing with her apparently spoiled daughter, any punishments dealing with this behavior aren't always done with the righteous confidence that it might seem like they are to the child in question.