to think my dsis should not let her toddler trash my house?

[passmethewineplease]

don't know if I'm being uptight or not..changed a few details as don't want to out myself.

dsis has a 17 month old little girl, as most toddlers she is in to everything she can't have.

whenever they come round, she goes for everything, the TV, the DVDs, literally everything but the toys!

my dsis lets her do it all, I have had to put the dvds back twice, Hoover up again as she let her squash a cake in to the carpet, she lets her go to the TV and wack it. she will say no but doesn't actually stop her unless she is doing something dangerous.

I wouldn't mind if she tidied up a bit after her but she doesn't so my house is left looking like a bomb site.

am I being unreasonable? whenever we take the dc out I always watch them and stop them from doing anything they shouldn't be and always tidy up their mess if they make any, like pens and paper etc.

I'm not talking about a toy here and there, I'm talking chaos everywhere.

[MomOfTwoGirls2]

Rule in our house is that eating only allowed at kitchen table. My DDs much older, aged 10 and 11. But I enforce this with my much younger Nieces also, as well as for all play dates.

We had ants last year, it was really hard to get rid of them. I use this as excuse to enforce this rule. My DDs freak out a bit if anybody takes food into another room. They REALLY don't want ants again this year...

[MomOfTwoGirls2]

Oh, and use your pregnancy to guilt trip your sister into tidying up after DN.
'Sorry sis, am feeling wrecked. Not up to bending down to tidy up those DVDs that DN pulled out. Can you tidy them for me...'