Tamra Barney isn’t allowed to feature her youngest three children on The Real Housewives of Orange County anymore thanks to her ex-husband Simon Barney, who doesn’t want them to appear on the reality show, a footnote in their bitter custody battle.

But on Monday night’s episode, viewers saw Barney’s oldest son Ryan Vieth working for her at CUT Fitness, which the blonde housewife runs with her new husband, Eddie Judge.

And once again, Barney, 46, who has had a problematic on-again, off-again relationship with the 27-year-old Vieth, decided to put her parenting style on display for Bravo’s cameras. Barney explained that she’d made Vieth a manager at the gym and was ordering him to do certain things behind Judge’s back so as not to bother her husband.

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Also, “We want him to grow,” Barney told the cameras of Vieth, who recently got engaged to be married after a