Chapter 182

Lorraine stopped picking cherries and looked down at Vanessa. "What are you going to do, Vanessa?" Vanessa looked over at Joshua, who was munching on some cherries while sitting under a tree nearby. "Josh's attitude and behavior has toned down a lot these days. He's still a good kid when he's not around those people who dote on him to no end." Back at the Ware residence, it was hard for Vanessa to discipline Joshua, despite being his mother. The other Wares would constantly defend him. He, too, knew that everyone else would take his side. Thus, whenever Vanessa reprimanded him, he would pout and run off to look for his grandparents. Simply by acting all hurt and upset, his grandparents would quickly come to his defense and stop Vanessa from scolding him. "Whenever I try to discipline him, the entire family would gang up on me, saying that he's only immature because he's still a child, and that once he gets older, he'll know how to behave himself. But how can a person tell right fr