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« on: July 09, 2016, 03:30:08 PM »
Tell them that they drive like stuff and repeat to them what they said to you about crossing the road carefully when you were four. Tell them that you're doing the same to them, I don't know. Be creative.
When they are deliberately putting the lives of other people in danger, including their own, you have to be the parent. Make them explain to you what their reasons are for driving so terribly, and proceed to apply the same logic to another situation to get across the point of how silly they sound. You need to shove down their throat the proper way to drive, their survival is more important than their feelings.
Don't let them manipulate you, don't let them interrupt your sentences, don't let them turn the argument around on you. Your will should be made out of iron. Your yes is yes and your no is no, and your word is final.
If they still don't want to listen, then that's fine. You did all you could, so if one or both of them gets hospitalized and tries to pin the blame on you, just repeat back to them all the points they gave you. They can care for themselves.
My father was too loyal to his mother. He died because of her insolence, don't make the same mistake.