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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That escalated fast from “extra grandma at a birthday party” to cognitive decline.

The tells are in your own post:
“Personally, I think toys are a waste of money, but my son is enjoying them.” ..: so she bought gifts your kid likes and you're still annoyed?

“She kept interrupting to take way too many photos… especially with a lot of people there.” Yes, that’s called a grandma at a party, not a neurological event.

Showing up early, dressing up, overbuying gifts, taking a million photos, cutting the cake line, and ignoring your no-posting rule on Instagram = enthusiastic, boundary-challenged MIL. Not medical mystery.

This reads less like concern and more like you’re stacking petty grievances to justify a bigger accusation. Dial it back. It’s not cognitive decline, it’s mild main-character grandma energy.

This post also minimizes what actual cognitive decline looks like (memory loss that impacts daily functioning, confusion, getting lost, major personality shifts, etc.). C’mon mama. You are better than this post. [/quote]

I don’t mean ‘cognitive decline’, as an insult, more like a concern.

When it comes to interrupting, she didn’t do it before, so it felt weird, and cutting cake line also was a little inconsiderate.
 
I also have rules when it comes to parenting, and this is one thing that she  seems to be getting worse lately, MIL ignoring rules. I don’t buy my son toys. There are other rules that she ignores like, not posting my son on social media, or what she feeds him, or what she lets him watch on TV. Since, she’s been ignoring a lot of this lately, I’ve just been worried about her. [/quote]

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