We Thought She Was "the Meanest Mom in the World" — Until Her Daughter Tried to Manipulate Her

Even though Jaime Primak Sullivan already proudly boasts the title of "the meanest mom in the world," her daughter still tried to see how much she could get away with.

Over the weekend, her 8-year-old daughter, Olivia, tried to pull a classic kid's move: making a deal with Mommy and then going behind Mommy's back to get exactly what she originally wanted from Daddy.

Olivia asked to have some yogurt topped with candy before dinner, and the former Bravo star said yes — but if she did, she couldn't eat cake after dinner. Olivia decided that she wanted the cake and so she agreed not to have any yogurt. After dinner, Olivia happily ate her piece of cake, and once she was finished, she sweetly went to Jaime's husband to ask if she could have the yogurt with the M&M's.

Although Jaime could see that the initial issue at hand was just about yogurt, and it was a holiday weekend surrounded by friends so it would've been very easy to just overlook it, Jaime wasn't going to ignore this blatant attempt at manipulation. "It isn't about the yogurt; it's about the manipulation and the bad habits that are starting now," Jaime explained in a video that she posted on Facebook. "She comes from a very genuine place — she isn't malicious in her manipulation but the habits are still starting."

While Jaime understands that it's very easy for people to overlook manipulation that isn't malicious, she is still asking parents to say something if they see something when it comes to bad behavior — even if outside friends or family are trying to guilt you into letting it slide.

"When they're 8 and a half, it's easy to let them just go and have the yogurt and overlook the manipulation, but an 8-year-old who manipulates, even from not a malicious place, becomes a 12-year-old who does it, becomes a 17-year-old who does it, becomes a 21-year-old who does it, becomes a 30-year-old who does it," Jaime reflected. "She had to own her manipulation and for a lot of people, that is very difficult — they don't want to acknowledge that they are capable or responsible for that."