Just come home from a family holiday , me my OH and two kids, my Sister in law and her husband.
We rented a home together and all was well until sister in law decided my kids weren't " doing enough" ie they didn't surface till dinner time, (they are 16 and 18) they didn't contribute to the chat at mealtime enough, they moaned it was too hot, only went in the pool a few times,Southof France hols, they are North of England whiter than white.They love drinking from 5pm round the pool but teens were bored with that, tensions got out of hand when we were all at the beach and I was reminding them to put factor 50 on our sunburning bits, shoulder, face, etc
She had a massive go at me saying I Mother too much, they should be left to it, basically saying I'm a helicopter mum and getting het up. My response was you do you (her kids are grown up) and I'll do me, no worries. But later on that evening she said to my OH her brother how stupidly I parent, I'm over soft whatever that means!
OH always just nods and placates her but I'm now annoyed .We go away every year with them and now I'm thinking no more, me and OH go away on our own next year, what do you think?She said coming home right I'll decide next year like it's a done deal!