How would you deal with an overbearing MIL

Ronnie - posted on 06/22/2012 ( 4 moms have responded )

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My MIL is very overbearing. She doesn't respect boundaries
and she thinks I don't have the right to tell her what to do and not
to do with MY child. I told her to not to give my son junk food and
she does it anyway. Once she gave my son chocolate ice cream
mixed with milk n his bottle. Keep in mind he's only one year old.
I told her that his Dr said not to give him things like that and she
says the Dr doesn't know what he's talking about. Another time
was supposed to babysit for me. My son had been with her for a
few hours. I texted her to tell ask her if she could put her treadmill
down (she had it standing in a vertical position) because I don't
want it to fall on him. She calls my boyfriend fussing about it and
dropped the baby off without warning. She was supposed to keep
him the next day while I was at work. I had to find another sitter
at the last minute. She thinks Im wrong for asking her that. Is it me
or has she lost her mind?? Does she really think I have no authority
over my own son? PS- she thinks that because she's a mother that
she knows everything and that she's going to have her way with my
child

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Ronnie - posted on 06/23/2012

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Lol@ she wasnt in the room where he was conceived. They she acts you would think she had the contractions and pushed him out.
PS - Thanks to all that replied. There has got to be something wrong with the way she thinks if she thinks I don't have a right to tell her what to do with my child.

Samantha - posted on 06/23/2012

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i know how u feel, except with live with mine for the time being, hopefully moving out within the next month, mine tells me how to do stuff all the time and it rather annoying, you should tell thanks for your suggestions but i will raise my child the way i see fit ( a friend told me to tell mine tht) and i agree with the other comments to find someone else to watch ur child from now on, u gave birth to ur son not her, and she wasnt in the room (or wherever he was concieved) when he was made therefore she has no authority over how u raise him!

Brittany - posted on 06/23/2012

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I would find someone else to watch your child from now on. Tell her that until she respects you and your decisions for your child that she can't watch him.

The ice cream in a bottle, sounds more like she wants to drive you insane and disregard your authority to be the "cool" granny.

Firebird - posted on 06/22/2012

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I would just stop leaving her alone with him until she decides to grow up and respect your wishes for your child.