Grandma passive agreessive to school-aged grandson

[Anonymous]

I'm just confused. We have an infant, so I don't know much about parenting older children. I watched this happen today. Grandmother asks school aged grandson if he wants waffles for breakfast. Grandson says yes. Grandmother toasts Ego waffle and puts it on plate. Grandson says it's cold, asks for it to be warmer. Grandmother puts waffle in the microwave and purposefully overheats it. Gives it back to grandson. He says it's too hot now. She says, "I know." He is so frustrated, he doesn't want to eat, so he leaves. She tells him that he can't eat anything else until he finishes what's on his plate. But, she went out of her way to make it difficult for him to eat it.

Why couldn't she just heat it up a little more? Or teach him how to use the toaster on his own? Would any of you do this? Is this to make him just eat it the way it shows up on his plate and not ask for it to be the way he likes it?

[Anonymous]

She's evil
Limit the amount of time she has alone with your kid

[Anonymous]

CRAZY

[Anonymous]

If he had waited a minute it would have cooled down. She acknowledge she made it too hot.

Why did grandson get frustrated so easily?

I don't see crazy here at all!

[Anonymous]

She must hate the kid if she is feeding him Ego waffles regardless of the too hot/too cold whine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If he had waited a minute it would have cooled down. She acknowledge she made it too hot.

Why did grandson get frustrated so easily?

I don't see crazy here at all!

She could have popped it in for 20 seconds, but she popped it in for a lot longer than that. The purpose wasn't to make the waffle warmer. It was to heat it to the point where he would complain it was too hot, because she was annoyed. She could have put it back in the toaster.

[Anonymous]

What a bitch! Is this one instance or does she do this a lot? I mean we all have bad days (grandma seems to be having one) but if this happens a lot I'd lose it with her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If he had waited a minute it would have cooled down. She acknowledge she made it too hot.

Why did grandson get frustrated so easily?

I don't see crazy here at all!

She could have popped it in for 20 seconds, but she popped it in for a lot longer than that. The purpose wasn't to make the waffle warmer. It was to heat it to the point where he would complain it was too hot, because she was annoyed. She could have put it back in the toaster.

she proabably doesn't know how long it takes to warm it up in the microwave. (Mine would take about 15 seconds, my MIL would take about 40 seconds.) She took it out, realized it was hot & told the kid that. She is a grandparent not a waitress. Bigger issue is bratty kid that couldn't wait or pop it in the fridge for a minute. It is a freakin' Ego Waffle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If he had waited a minute it would have cooled down. She acknowledge she made it too hot.

Why did grandson get frustrated so easily?

I don't see crazy here at all!

She could have popped it in for 20 seconds, but she popped it in for a lot longer than that. The purpose wasn't to make the waffle warmer. It was to heat it to the point where he would complain it was too hot, because she was annoyed. She could have put it back in the toaster.

There's clearly more going on here than what you have said, OP. How do you know she intended to make it too hot? I'd say 90% of the time I cook something it comes out too hot for my kids, but in a minute or two it is fine. If I made it their preferred temperature from the start, it would be cold by the time they took two bites. Heating up a waffle is not an exact science. Presumably grandma and child both knew it would cool off in a few minutes.

[Anonymous]

She's mean.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like my mother.

[Anonymous]

I am confused. How do you know this happened, did you see, it hear about it?

Your child, your mother? Please explain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If he had waited a minute it would have cooled down. She acknowledge she made it too hot.

Why did grandson get frustrated so easily?

I don't see crazy here at all!

She could have popped it in for 20 seconds, but she popped it in for a lot longer than that. The purpose wasn't to make the waffle warmer. It was to heat it to the point where he would complain it was too hot, because she was annoyed. She could have put it back in the toaster.

Putting it back in the toaster wouldn't just warm it more, it would toast it more then it might have been too toasted / too dark and hard. I don't warm toast up in the toaster, I use the microwave too as it just heats and doesn't toast further.

Is this your family and you know grandmother to be a mean woman? Why would you also know that the grandson didn't know how to use the toaster /microwave himself to get the waffle to the temperature he wanted it to be?

It also depends on how he asked for it to be warmed. If he complained and whined about her doing it wrong and it being too cold or not how he liked it then she was probably annoyed with the whining - maybe he is spoiled rotten and as grandma she has to put up with that. If he asked politely (and had a reason for not doing it himself) then either she was having a bad day or is an angry or irritated person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If he had waited a minute it would have cooled down. She acknowledge she made it too hot.

Why did grandson get frustrated so easily?

I don't see crazy here at all!

She could have popped it in for 20 seconds, but she popped it in for a lot longer than that. The purpose wasn't to make the waffle warmer. It was to heat it to the point where he would complain it was too hot, because she was annoyed. She could have put it back in the toaster.

There's clearly more going on here than what you have said, OP. How do you know she intended to make it too hot? I'd say 90% of the time I cook something it comes out too hot for my kids, but in a minute or two it is fine. If I made it their preferred temperature from the start, it would be cold by the time they took two bites. Heating up a waffle is not an exact science. Presumably grandma and child both knew it would cool off in a few minutes.

She was clearly not happy. She was annoyed and mumbling while she was using the microwave. The way she said "I know" was short and abrupt with an attitude. It sounded like it was "I know, because I intended to do that." "I know I made it too hot, oops." sounds different.

[Anonymous]

Why didn't the kid just blow on it or wait a minute for itto cool. Whiney kids who have zero problem solving skills drive me crazy.