While Lynn began the task of cleaning the grimy bathtub, the other children were busy around the house doing chores that Rita assigned during breakfast. Lori was back on laundry duty with Luna while Lucy and Luan washed the breakfast dishes. Lola was vacuuming while Lisa dusted all the furniture. Leni wasn't working today at the mall. Lynn Sr. told Kentauro yesterday that he would be in charge of the restaurant in the morning. At the moment Albert was sitting on the couch watching a news report on his laptop.

Sometime later…

At the supermarket Rita only had one more item to purchase on her shopping list. As she turned the cart into aisle seven to pick up packets of spaghetti, Teresa Hart was moving away after getting some penne pasta and noticed Rita.

"Good afternoon Rita," Mrs. Hart said casually. Teresa was wearing jeans and a short-sleeved pink blouse.

"Mom go home," two year old Lily babbled.

"We're going home soon honey," Rita replied then smiled at Lily.

"Good afternoon Teresa," Rita continued.

"How are the children Rita, I hope they're doing well," Mrs. Hart commented.

Rita smiled a little, then replied, "Yes they are, thanks for asking."

"I hope they're behaving themselves, I haven't heard them making noise for weeks," Teresa commented wryly.

"Well Lori, Luna, Luan, Lisa, Lola, and Junior are being punished until they return to school, and Lynn and I'm keeping them busy with lots of chores, Lana has learned her lesson so we took her off punishment, "I'm so sorry she scared your daughter," Rita answered.

Still peeved about the incident with Hops scaring her daughter Susanna, Teresa just ignored Rita's apology.

"That's good, kids do need discipline, why don't you and Lynn Sr. consider sending your girls to boot camp? They need the discipline they aren't getting from home," she asked with a judgmental tone which suddenly aggravated Rita.

"Excuse me, how dare you judge my parenting? You think you're such a perfect mom because you don't allow your kids to drink soda," Rita said angrily.

"Well if you and your husband are okay with them acting like hooligans instead of proper ladies," Teresa commented arrogantly.

"Don't call my girls hooligans, you don't have to deal with ten strong-willed girls with five of them being hyperactive, Lynn and I try our best to discipline them and nothing works," Rita protested.

"Trying's not good enough, they might wind up behind bars soon if you don't curb their wild behavior and…

Suddenly they heard a woman saying in a stern tone, "Teresa that's enough!"

Rita looked around and noticed Mrs. Stewart walking towards them.

"Can't you see you're upsetting Rita?" she told Teresa when she stopped beside Rita. "I was only giving Rita some advice," Mrs. Hart said somewhat annoyed, then two seconds passed.

"Rita, you might love your daughters but most people don't like aggressive girls so do something about it," she added before leaving with her cart.

"Thank you Robyn, I was one step away from calling the store manager," Rita said once Teresa had disappeared around a corner.

"Don't worry about Teresa, remember when she pushed to get all soda machines removed from the Royal Woods schools?" Robyn said.

Rita nodded," I remember going to that meeting at the high school."

A few seconds passed then Robyn said, "Rita I know you and Lynn Sr. care a lot about your children's well-being."

"We do. The girls are very talented but have difficult personalities, then Luan, Lynn and Lana have attention deficit disorder and Lola and Lisa to an extent. My husband and I allow them to express themselves anyway they want and I realize now they take advantage of it," Rita admitted.

There was a short pause before Robyn replied," I understand. Look if you need someone to talk to you can call me. My numbers in the Associations Directory."

Every January the Franklin Avenue Association mails a new Directory with all the residents' names and phone numbers.

"I will do that," Rita replied, then Robyn said, "Well it was nice speaking with you."

"Thanks for understanding Robyn," Rita responded. Once Mrs. Stewart departed Rita picked up seven boxes of spaghetti then she joined the shortest line to pay for the groceries.

Meanwhile Lynn was finished cleaning the gutters after mowing the lawn for Ruth. Luckily, the lawn wasn't large so that job took twenty minutes. Aunt Ruth appeared while Lynn washed her hands in the bathroom. Aunt Ruth had noticed the teenager's slight bruises seconds after her arrival and just thought, "She probably got them from playing sports or fighting with her sisters."

Sometimes when Rita spoke to her Aunt she would tell her about some of the fights among her children.

"Lynn lunch is ready," Ruth told her then walked away.

The teenager groaned inwardly. "Now I have to eat expired food," she thought.

To Lynn's surprise, Aunt Ruth placed a smoked turkey sandwich and some lemonade before her at the table.

"Junior I decided to take your dads advice about not serving expired food and threw them out and bought fresh food at the supermarket," Ruth explained.

Some time ago, Lincoln, Lynn Sr. and four sisters stayed with Aunt Ruth because the house became uninhabitable due to termites. Ruth was about to serve the older food she normally gave the Loud children whenever they visited but Lynn Sr. told her not to serve his children any then took Lori with him to the supermarket to buy fresh food. (Referencing the episode Ruthless People)

"What's next," Lynn asked Aunt Ruth rather listlessly once she drank the last drop of lemonade.

"You can start cleaning the litterboxes dear," Aunt Ruth replied.

Lynn thought dismally, "Oh just great."

Upon arriving home Rita took Lily out of the baby seat then walked towards the house where she noticed Lana helping Lynn Sr. pulling weeds from the garden.

"Lana could you help carry in groceries," she asked and the girl obeyed by running towards Vanzilla.

Rita opened the front door then shouted, "I'm back, I need some assistance carrying in the groceries."

Lola, Lucy, Lisa and Lincoln appeared quickly and calmly walked outside to assist their mother.

Once Rita left that morning Albert and Lynn Sr. retrieved Leni's sewing machine and materials from the attic and returned them to her bedroom. Leni was still sewing a dress which she started after they placed the items back on her side of the room. The five children also helped Rita put away the groceries after unloading Vanzilla.

Later…

Lori and Luna were at the restaurant with their father. At breakfast Luna asked her father if she could wash dishes at the restaurant so she didn't have to stay home and just read. Lori offered to give her fifteen from the thirty dollars Lynn Sr. paid her. At the moment Lincoln was at Rusty's house with his friends enjoying their video games in the living room. Right now Lola was fast asleep on Leni's bed while Lana and Lisa were sleeping in their bedrooms and Luan was working on her act for the birthday party. Rita was working on her novel in the master bedroom while Pop-Pop was making chicken soup for dinner. Leni was at the mall with two school friends to see a movie.

Lynn Jr. was resting on Aunt Ruth's couch after working hard. After cleaning the litter boxes she assisted Ruth in cleaning out the refrigerator. Lynn started thinking about how she regarded Lincoln. She firmly believed that boys should be roughhousing and interested in sports whether they were athletic or not. One time she considered making him her sparring partner when practicing any sport and forcing him to participate even when he wasn't interested but she decided against doing that. Instead she preferred surprising him once in a while with throwing a ball towards him and shouting, "Think fast," for him to catch the ball and catching him off guard with Luche Libre wrestling holds which only happened three times.

The ball throwing was just her playing around while the wrestling was deliberate roughhousing to interact with him. Her other actions towards Lincoln were plain bullying just because she was older and stronger than him such as the Dutch ovens, pantsing him three times and belching in his face. Two weeks before summer break, she maliciously threw a basketball toward her brother when he peeped into her bedroom to say hello while she conversed with their four older sisters which hit Lincoln forcefully in his chest and knocked him to the floor (the last incident from the episode "Sitting Bull")

Fortunately she never started bullying him when he was younger, she only started doing it when she was twelve and was almost finished her first year of middle school and Lincoln ten. The family was travelling to the Scratchy Bottom camp grounds for spring break when she decided to play Auto Attack.

When Lincoln asked her, "How do you play that?" she replied, "I punch you every time I see a car," then a trailer carrying about ten cars passed by and she punched him painfully ten times.

She was interrupted from her thoughts when Aunt Ruth entered the living room.

"Junior I'm taking you home," Ruth told her.

"Finally," the girl thought in relief. She gratefully hopped in the passenger seat of Ruth's car and within minutes she was home.

"Thanks Junior you were a great help," Ruth remarked while Lynn unbuckled the seat belt.

"Bye Aunt Ruth," she responded wearily before stepping out of the car.

A/N. I always wondered how another person would regard the way Rita and Lynn Sr. parent their children so I created the encounter with Rita and Teresa.