Rules on grandparents & social distancing

[Dualipa]

I'm meeting my parents tomorrow with my toddler. I'm keen to keep to social distance guidelines which means I'm not comfortable with my parents holding my little boy.

My mum doesn't respect this and last time we met she grabbed my son.

What can I say to prevent her doing it this time?

What country are you in, if you are in England you can say it is against the guidelines.

Wherever you are though, it is up to you what you feel comfortable with not your mum.

I'm in England.

I'm definitely not comfortable with it, I know my parents aren't careful and we are very careful.

Is he young enough and happy enough to be in a pushchair? Could you meet up for a walk?

We are meeting at a local attraction, he will either be in a sling or walking once he feels comfortable to do so. My mum will just grab him nevertheless 🙄

Can you keep him in the sling then, less easy to grab

If you feel that strongly about it and know they won’t follow rules you want don’t see them

Or ask them to Sanitise their hands- I know my parents won’t follow the rules and will touch/ pick up my kids so I ask them to alcohol jel their hands when we meet up. That didn’t help the kisses though 🙄

Tell them ahead that you are social distancing and following the guidelines and that if they can’t respect that then you won’t be able to meet them with the baby! I have had this issue too and it’s awful because you feel guilty but the stress of it isn’t worth it. You should be able to see people and do distancing it’s a pain when people don’t respect that you are following the guidelines even if they are not!!