A five-year-old uses cuteness to obtain extra privileges from relatives and other adults despite parents and preschool teachers setting limits. Extended-family members and regular caregivers often cave, creating examples like giving an extra cookie despite a stated rule. Parents fear the child will learn to exploit adults' reluctance to say no. The appropriate corrective action is to address enabling adults directly and request consistent boundary enforcement. Adults, not the child, bear responsibility for stopping permissive behavior. A clear group communication can align family members and reduce reinforcement of attention-based rewards.
My husband and I aren't the sorts of parents who find it impossible to say "no" to our daughter, and most of her preschool teachers aren't either. But grandparents, aunts and uncles, older cousins who babysit, one of her substitute preschool teachers, and other adults she's regularly in contact with have a hard time saying no to her.
Absolutely bring it up with your relatives. You're right that talking to your daughter would only confirm overtly what she already knows instinctively-and would encourage her to deploy her superpower even more. Plus, it's not herfault you're in this situation, so it's not her responsibility to correct it.
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