So the plaintiff is John.
What is your complaint?
Okay, my complaint is she's got too many clothes.
(audience laughs)
She-- Too many clothes.
I need them for work.
My wife, yes.
I'll get to you in a second.
So, Christine is the defending
and you are married to him. She has too many clothes?
She has a whole,
she takes up the whole closet.
Yes.
Okay and I had to put a plant hanger
outside of the closet.
To hang up your clothes?
To hang up my clothes
and she took that over too.
Okay, now is it fair to say
you have what, one clothing closet in your bedroom?
It's a very large closet.
It was built for a woman by a woman.
And you think it's fair that you have most of the closet?
I need the closet.
He's a chef.
He has two chef jackets and chef pants
that he can put into a drawer.
Okay, so she has most of the clothing?
No, but what about all my jerseys?
He can fold them up
and put them in a drawer.
No I don't, I can't.
I have a little house--
How long have you been married?
23 years.
23 years?
In 23 years did you ever buy her some of that clothing?
All the time.
So you bought her the clothing,
so how can you complain?
Not all the time. (audience laughs)
Judgment for the defendant.
(audience applause)
Told ya I'd win.
Hi Megan, hi Maria.
So who is the plaintiff here? Me.
Are you mother-daughter?
Yep.
Oh Lord, I'm shutting my mouth on this one.
So Megan, what's the complaint?
So it's a never-ending debate
between my mom and I about parenting my three year old,
who just started preschool.
So, he's been getting into a little bit of trouble.
A lot.
(laughs)
Just a little bit of trouble.
A lot.
And I am trying to follow the same type routine
that they do at school, where as,
you know, it's a good choice, bad choice,
you know, they have to be real careful
with what they're doing.
Yes.
So, I'm trying to give him that same perspective
and it's not going over so well with my mom.
We're constantly fighting over it.
Okay, Mom?
It's not going over very well with me.
The reason for it is because he's a three year old.
Yes.
And you cannot sit a three year old down
and have a conversation with a three year old.
They need a little bit more of,
"Okay, listen.
"If you misbehave, I'm gonna take this away from you."
If you're consistent with that,
he's gonna realize that when he--
But he's three.
When he misbehaves, okay,
he is going to be reprimanded for it
and I don't mean physically,
I just mean, you know, take things away.
But I see him hours after situations happen.
Okay yes, go ahead.
I see him hours after situations happen
so how can I reprimanded him
for something he did hours ago?
He's not gonna remember that.
What would you have to reprimanded him,
for something he did while he was with Mom?
In school, or at school, or with my mom--
And they are a lot of times that I have the kids
and so, I do reprimanded him.
I mean, we've discussed this.
If I'm watching them, they're in my house
and I'm gonna treat them the way I feel.
Even when I'm there.
She grew up okay.
Here's my view on this
and this will be the ruling.
The issue, unless we're dealing
with something that's dangerous,
you know, lifesaving, something like that.
The issue is not rather your mom is
or rather you are right or wrong,
what is the best way to raise the child, etc.
The fact of the matter is she is now the mother
and she is now the person,
that except in extreme circumstances,
is with the child the most,
putting the child to bed, it's Mom.
There's a relationship that
you're never gonna be able,
which is good, to get in between.
So, since Mom is the rock,
in terms of this child's life,
Mom gets those decisions.
She gets the right to make those decision,
because there's more consistency there.
However, being a grandparent myself,
it is appropriate to say,
which you both, at the same time
should be saying to your child,
that when your child is in Grandma's house,
in that house the child obeys the rules in that house.
Absolutely.
Which means even that you've gotta support
your mother when your child's in her house
to say "Remember honey, we're in Grandma's house
"and in Grandma's house those are the rules."
but (mumbles),
then there is some rationale
instead of you two always arguing,
that this time and it's not a bad lesson
for a child to learn
that in different situations,
with different people and different locations
the rules are sometimes different.
You behave differently in the schoolyard
or playground when you're playing with your kids
than when I take you to church on Sunday morning.
Right.
And the child kinda learns that.
And so, your child will learn
when you're at Grandma's,
you don't act like that, you don't.
At home, we'll take care of ya.
That was lovely, Jerry.
(audience applause)
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