My MIL arrived last week to spend 6 months living with us and there have already been tensions in the house. In fact for the first 3 days she was here she could hardly be bothered to talk to me at all and most of her interaction with me took the form of disapproving sighs when I mentioned how I do things with DS (13 months).
She will be looking after DS for 3.5 days a week and has already made it clear that she although she disapproves of the way I do things she will do things my way (under great duress and with much sighing etc). I feel really annoyed with her because she has obviously been talking to other members of the family and our old nanny about how I raise our son. She had the gall to say to me that "everybody" thinks I am too controlling because I refused to take DS to a family party because there was nowhere to put him to sleep - apparently she thinks that an 8 month old baby (he was 8 months when we visited in Jan) is quite capable of staying up until midnight and that I am not lenient enough with him - my god next she will be suggesting a curfew for him!
Mostly everything she does with him irritates me but what infuriates me most of all is her constant going on about "her baby" it makes me want to throttle her, not to mention her constant harping about him being tired - I believe in structured napping in the day because I find that DS's sleep goes haywire at night if left to sleep for too long.
Any suggestions as to how I can get MIL to come to terms with the 21st century and my way of doing things without making me feel TOTALLY inadequate would be greatly appreciated - that is before I do something I may regret (lol!!!)
Thanks in advance
dejags
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MIL Living with us for 6 months - aaaarghhh!!!
dejags · 09/07/2002 16:17
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