Do you only allow grandparents supervised visits?

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks for everyone's feedback. Do your parents who you won't leave kids alone with know that you use other babysitters?

[Anonymous]

I'm the PP with the trustworthy FIL but not MIL. MIL goes ballistic if she finds out my parents watched our kid. So we try not to mention it - which is fairly easy to do bc both sets of grandparents live several hours away so it doesn't happen that often. We don't have a local babysitter but I don't think MIL would object to that. It's just my parents that she is sensitive about.

[Anonymous]

My parents are totally trustworthy. I trust them completely with our kids. My inlaws are loving grandparents who would do anything for their grand kids. But they drink at least three or four drinks every day. I worry that they might drive with the kids after drinking. For that reason, we don't leave the kids with them.

[Anonymous]

My parents, FIL, and his wife can be alone with DD. MIL cannot. I didn't announce my decision and I will not. MIL is untrustworthy and weird. She is lonely and craves physical contact to the point where she is obsessed with holding. I don't think she would ever touch DD inappropriately but I do think she would try to cuddle and snuggle to fulfill her own needs and that makes me feel sick. I observe her doing this with her other granddaughter...my niece. There are too many suggestions to sit on grandma's lap. She also doesn't follow my SIL's instructions regarding food; she gives my niece junk constantly. I couldn't deal with it.

[Anonymous]

My ILs are not to be left alone with my children. They completely ignore them when we are around, I can only imagine how bad it would be if we left.