If small dc had drastic hair cut would you stare at said child or say something positive!

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Dd is 6 and had long hair which she wouldn't let me brush properly. We decided she would get a really good cut. She was nervous about it, initially after the chop she cried.
Then we had a positive turn around and she said she liked it. But she is 6.
Mil saw her, noticed her hair and said over and over in a strange voice.. Oh, your hair has been cut it looks so... So.. Different... So different.

About four times is was waiting for the positive comment.
I said something positive about it. Because it seemed very clear Mil didn't like it. When we got home dd started saying she didn't like her hair because it was different.
Aibu that you use some tact in a situation like that! They have come out with funny comments before..

I was furious. It's just endless with her. My dh has zero confidence.. She can't seem to say a nice thing

maybe she has zero confidece, maybe she had a difficult mother? I finf posters on here will give endless excuses for their children and their partners, reasons for everything, but his mother? Nah, she's just an old bitch isn't she? Appeared fully grown one day and deserves no thought or sympathy of any kind

EVERYONE knows that the ONLY sensible response to a child's drastic haircut is: "that looks lovely, so grown-up!".

THE END.

Can't I have thought of why she is like she is. But she has caused so much damage to dh, me and now these comments to the dc it's hard to give her any sympathy. Her dm seems a lovley warm lady, who knows maybe she wasn't when Mil was growing up but both her dp seem a lot warmer and kinder than she.

She is very glamorous and well off and has a fabulous life style,two healthy dc (just about) wondeful gc, and a dh who is her servant and does everything she asks.. I can fathom why she is still such a constant misery I just can think of a single event she has been too where she as added something positive at all. I have never known someone do so little but except sooo much praise and thanks.

I missed your post hissy, yes I agree and dh has been told that this too by another person not me. The problem is I have not low tolerance for her now and it's not pleasant being around her even for the shortest of time.