My youngest DD (13 months) was outside yesterday for half an hour from 8-8:30 on a blanket, in our garden, in the shade. My eldest DD (10) was sat with her barring 3 minutes when she went to the toilet. I was stood 10-15 feet away at all times at the sink doing some washing up where I had a very clear view of them both. The sun wasn’t right round the front of our garden by this point and youngest DD had a nappy and sun hat with a brim and flaps to protect the neck and ears on, she had also been absolutely slathered in factor 50+ sunblock before going outside. I kept her inside for the duration of midday (11-3) she napped from 12:30-14:30.
My mum came around at approx 16:30, she watched me slather youngest DD in sunblock all over her body again shortly before we ventured outside into our garden again, yet again the sun had moved out of shot, DD was in the shade with a sun hat and nappy on.
SIL who lives next door storms into our garden (we don’t get on - that’s a whole other thread) addresses my mother about my DD and starts to lecture on how she should have a T-shirt on. I was quite defensive at this point, she started spouting off about when she did a midwifery degree (she didn’t finish it) I explained that I’d kept her indoors and cool out of the midday sun. She’d had an hour of outside time tops and as far as I was concerned, had adequate shade and protection for the conditions.
This was purely divisive to try and show me up in front of my mum.
She then went on to tell my mum how I had left my youngest DD on her own, outside for half an hour in the morning which was a lie. She then went on to say that she had photos of my youngest on her own outside and she was going to report me to SS. Eldest DD had gone to the toilet, I had sat outside on the patio keeping a close eye on youngest DD (middle DD was doing her homeschooling so I was close enough to answer any
questions but only 6 feet away from DD at this point) she’s obviously taken a photo and either avoided catching me in it or cropped me out.
She must’ve literally sat and watched my children until DD was left ‘on her own’.
This has really rattled me. It’s been one thing after another recently but if she’s been so concerned why didn’t she come out and say something while spying on my children in the morning? Why wait until my mum was there? If I ever have my children out in the midday sun, they’re always covered up in a loose fitting t shirt. I’ve got three children ages ranging from 10-1 and thus far, none of them have ever been sun burnt.
SIL is very malicious and lied several times to my mum yesterday. It makes me worry about what else she’s photographed and misconstrued as the truth.