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Something's nagged me for a while about an episode of Amphibia S3A.

In "Thai Feud," Sprig gets into all sorts of hijinks trying to get closer to Oum. But despite all the trouble he causes, his behaviour surprisingly didn't bother me, mainly because it's...y'know, still acknowledged as wrong. What did bother me was...Oum.

Throughout the first half of the episode, Oum is tempted to tell off Sprig for his antics, but instead puts the blame on Anne. Telling her to "knock off" what Sprig's doing or "I'm doubling your chores." When Sprig asks why, Anne explains that Oum never yells at a guest, only family.

...I'm sorry, but am I missing something when I think that's blatantly not okay and in need of correcting?

You do not force your child to bear the consequences of somebody else's misbehaviour. It's. Not. Fair. And Anne is visibly unhappy with this rule, yet given that she makes no effort to change Oum's mind, it's clear her mom has always stubbornly refused to budge on this.

Why does the episode end with Sprig and Ned apologizing for their actions, but not Oum as well? Because it's not the focus of the episode? Maybe, but I really think Oum should have been called out on this "never reprimand a guest" rule. She means well and is trying to be a polite host, but she's mistreating her daughter in the process and that is not okay.

This wouldn't have bothered me at all if Oum had been made to apologize to Anne and change her behaviour. And no, chewing out Sprig at the end because she now considers him family doesn't rectify the problem - she still hasn't dropped that unfair rule or apologized to Anne.

And now that I've gotten all that off my chest...am I right to feel this way? Is there something else Oum means by acting this way that's flying over my head? Maybe I'm just being too sensitive? I mean, even the smallest suspicion of kids being mistreated tends to set me off, so am I just not thinking straight? How would you explain Oum's behaviour?

You're in the wrong here.

This is admittedly going to differ person from person but the normal social grace is that the person who invites someone over also takes responsibility for them. I mean, just imagine if during a hangout session, you're twelve, and your friend breaks a plate on purpose. Who should get punished... And who can your parent even punish in the first place?

Oum is not Sprig's mother, despite that being kind of what Sprig wants. She has no right to yell at him. She has no right to punish him. She has no power in that relationship besides banning him from her house and that's not an option here. Now yes, it's complicated by the whole situation they're under but these are essentially the rules that Oum is playing by. They're actually just like the rules Hop Pop is worried about abusing because when dinner is over, who does the dishes? Sure as hell not the guest because that's not their responsibility.

All of this means though that yes, especially since Anne willingly does this from go, the responsibility for their behavior falls to Anne. If Sprig, or Polly for that matter (Hop Pop is a whole kettle of monkeys due to age), acts up then the person who will get punished is Anne. Hop Pop is actually the one who needs to be stepping in for this but he's not around right now and at least at that time, he has not given permission to Oum to discipline his grandson.

Also like... increasing chores and what not is not that bad? Those are just normal punishments? The way you describe your reaction I think is a VERY real problem with online discourse around parents right now. Any way of disciplining their children, even to teach them lessons, is seen as abuse. Camilla from TOH is held up as the perfect parent because she asks nothing of Luz and enables all of her behavior, bad or not. That's A: not a good parent and B: not a real parent. Oum on the other hand is very real and honestly very compassionate, she's also just stuck in the very difficult role of BEING A PARENT.

So yeah, especially with how flagrantly Sprig does things that are wrong to do in that episode, I don't think Oum needed to apologize to Sprig. I hope Sprig apologized to Anne at some point, which I believe comes with him admitting to why he's doing all of this, but Oum isn't in the wrong. Maybe she's a little harsh but also Amphibia plays with a lot of exaggeration in order to keep up its pace so if she's a little harsh, that's fine. It makes it punchier and the point gets across faster that way.

But it doesn't make what she did a problem. It's just reflective of life. See you next tale.

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