My Son Played a Harmless Prank on His Cousins. My Sister-in-Law’s Demand Is Absurd.

Care and Feeding Sept 04, 20262:00 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by DragonImages/Getty Images Plus. Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, Last week my 12-year-old son “Preston” got one of those voice modulators and played a prank on his cousins when they came to visit. My sister-in-law, “Amanda,” is raising her two boys, “Mike” and “Ike” (ages 6 and 7), to be fundamentalist Christian in the worst way. Mike and Ike were in the family room when Preston used the modulator while hiding behind the couch to give himself a booming voice and told the boys it was God talking to them. As a test of fait, he ordered them to walk through the wall, saying he would remove it. Mike and Ike ended up crashing