Hi everyone. I have had a guard up around mil, its more to do with feeling a little smoothered by her and pressured in to changing my parenting. I have told her straight and things have settled. Ive come to relise that she just loves the little one and despite me not likeing some stuff, i just keep my mouth shut and move on.
Theres one thing i havnt been able to shake though. A couples weeks ago she was lighlty smacking their dog saying 'say naughty dog'. I dont like their dog licking my babys mouth so i put it down to that, but the dog was just lying on the couch?
the mil and fil came round last week, whilst fil was drilling in the wall mil start smacking his bum going 'smack grandads bottom' This made me feel a bit weird. She also goes 'smack daddy' whilst my partners holding her, there was no reason for this. On the same day, i never saw what happened but i think lo hurt herself on a toy? and mil started smacking the toy saying 'Naughty toy' I know a lot of people do this but its with everything else too. Why is she doing this? I will never smack my child and dont want her learning to smack either. What if she ends up copying and thinking that its okay to hit a child for bumping in to her at nursery? or me for saying no? or simply thinks its a game.
Am i over reacting?