to expect my mum to let me move her dangerous tools out of DS's reach?

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We visit my parents often. By the back door there is a basket with gardening things in it, including 2 pairs of secateurs, a bloody great big set of shears and hand-held trowels / forks etc. 16 month old DS is very interested in the basket. If he gets close to it he tries to pick up the tools. I asked my mum to move it, she said no, there's nowhere else to put it, I should just keep him away from it. I said I'm sure there's somewhere else it can go, just while we're here, and that we'd surely regret not moving it if something terrible happened.

AIBU or is she?

You may well child proof your own house
, but when at other people's houses the onus is on YOU to watch YOUR child,not for them to make everything safe.

"Sorry-can´t you just move it anyway?" if only it were that easy it just doesn't work that way in that house. The unspoken rule there says it's her stuff so I have to ask her to move it, it's not my place to.
It's inside the house in sn area he's often in.

I don't think I'm being precious - I do totally understand the idea of teaching your child no. We spend lots of time in baby un-friendly places, and I happily just work round it at friends' houses. But this is DS's GPs house we're talking about, not some random's!

See I'm not asking them to move the bikes, or the sharp pencils, their ornaments, the glass coffee table, the chemicals under the sink or even the ladders he nearly pulled on top of himself last week or any of the other things. Just the kettle out of reach (agreed and done) and these horribly sharp and dangerous things which could easily live elsewhere, there's no great ned for them to be where they are.

I am convinced IANBU now, thanks!

TBH I find this kind of thing perplexing "but when at other people's houses the onus is on YOU to watch YOUR child,not for them to make everything safe." Although I agree with it in principle, there's a level of unkindness there I find really irritating.
I mean if someone asked me to move some really sharp things at my house I would happily oblige. Seriously what trouble is it so move a couple of things compared to a trip to casualty?!

""Sorry-can´t you just move it anyway?" if only it were that easy"

Well tbh between parents/children/grandchildren it should be that easy-you should just be able to pop it outside out of the way.