Would you think it was weird?

[Weirdtbh]

You’re at a family party. There is a couple there who you are related to that have a nearly 18 month old.

Perfectly happy when running around, playing with toys, copying older kids, running up to relatives and being social. Parents visibly agitated when child interacting with relatives, loudly saying ‘she doesn’t like strangers’. Not specific to any one person. This becomes too much to bear for them and they pick her up, carrying her around the host’s house for the remainder of the time they were there. Because she wanted to play she was twisting, turning and generally getting frustrated that she wasn’t allowed down. Parents leave early as she is ‘tired’ and they don’t want her being picked up or mixing with people who they know well but have only ‘bothered’ to see her twice in the last year - it might freak her out as she doesn’t like strangers. No evidence of this mind as she was smiling and waving and laughing with everyone else there at the party!

WIBU to think something’s off there?

It is weird, but unlikely to be anything sinister. Probably just a bit overprotective.

Quite weird...have you posted about this before?

I'd think the parents were anxious and being careful that their LO wasn't bothering people.

Yes

Do they have PFB-itis?
Is this your DS and DIL?

Feels like they don't want their kid used as a source of entertainment by people who haven't supported them through the first 18 months

They are precious cranks

In what way weird are you alluding to OP. I think they sound a bit ridiculous but is there a back story?

They've had enough of people who haven't made the effort to see them/her, enjoying her company because they've made the effort to attend. They'd be better off having it out than this happening. Perhaps actually talk to them about what's going on?

Why? Did you not get the answers you were looking for the first time?

PFB

Why are you posting about it again then?

Sounds like the parents were just looking for an excuse to get away from a boring event.

I read the first thread too. I think the parents wanted to rile/punish you or someone, and it has clearly worked

Definitely PFB-itis

And those relatives who had only bothered to visit her twice in 18months.......how often had the mum, dad & baby made an effort to visit them in return?

I'm betting not many as when couples have babies they seem to forget that making an effort to see family should be reciprocal.

First month or 2 of a newborn is fair enough to sit at home and expect everyone to come to you. 18 months of expecting everyone else to be the ones to make the effort is taking the piss IMO