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Q: does your extended family play a big role in raising your baby?
Thank god they have nothing to do with raising our children. I caught the MIL holding my son over the floor once to let him have a crap (my living room floor!). From then on, she understood very clearly it was game over for her. She has visitation rights but thats all.
Thank god they have nothing to do with raising our children. I caught the MIL holding my son over the floor once to let him have a crap (my living room floor!). From then on, she understood very clearly it was game over for her. She has visitation rights but thats all.
Staying with the wife's folks right now. They've both lived with us for extended periods over the past few years but they don't try to raise our kids, they just help in taking care of them. For example my mother in law is deeply superstitious, but I've made it clear that the moment she tries to teach my kids to walk under ladders or not to walk under ladders or whatever nonsense passes for superstition in these parts, I'll tell my kids plain and simple that grandma is nuts.
Mateusz:
Actually, not walking under ladders is pretty sound advice. Walking under a ladder risks getting paint cans, ladders, workers, etc. falling on you.
I don't see how how it's considered superstition. It's like saying that it's bad luck to cross the street on a red light.
I know of a couple whose Chinese sadists, meaning in-laws, caused irrevocable damage to the child, mother, father and Danish grandparents that's resulted in far reaching consequences for all concerned, the least of which was an acrimonious divorce and subsequent black listing of said Danish father from ever returning to the Harmonious Middle Kingdom. Needless to say, the much vaunted family values of China are nothing more nor less than facsimile.
And on several occasions, I have had to intervene in a situation where an obviously post-natal depressive mother was negligent and abusive toward her infant daughter, and was reminded in no unsubtle terms by police, security and even the infant's father to politely fuck off. I did, with umbrage.
Parenthood is inscrutable, especially here in nongland.
