Dear Care and Feeding,
When our son “Felix” was born four years ago, my husband and I made the decision that we wanted to limit his exposure to screens and sugar as much as possible. That worked well until last year, when I went to work and my mother began providing regular childcare—which for her, came with dessert and cartoon time in the afternoon. We talked to her about it a few times, but she’d always revert.
I was pretty frustrated and told my MIL as much! She said that it wasn’t fair that my mom gets to share these kinds of “grandma indulgences” with Felix but she doesn’t, and that she’s already jealous of their closeness because of how much time they spend together.
My daughter has always had so much fun with her grandmother. They have breakfast in bed, movies and treats galore. Isn’t that the point? My GOD is this woman going to struggle when Felix is a teenager and she can’t maintain iron grip control over him.
You’ve posted this many times.
'I want free childcare, but I want my mother and MIL to dedicate all their time in doing other activities aside from letting the kid watch TV for a bit.' Those parents sound insufferable.
'I want to make good decisions for my child, unless there's free child care involved.'
Should’ve been an AITA post. Spoiler: YTA
I shudder to think of all the screen time it took for the mother to e-mail this letter. Or did she hand write it? And how will she read the response? 🤔
Grammy right now
FREE BABYSITTING. FREE. For heaven's sake. Sugar has little to do with sex, damnation or corruption. She loves him. Give a break or start paying. 'You pay, you say.'
Ok I thought that was gonna be a bait headline but what a horrible woman!