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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I feel your pain!  I love that you told her you peaked at 1 year old!  Having your parenting judged is just that much worse when it is our own parents.  Why do they feel the need to compete with us and prove they did it better?  They should support us and accept that we make mistakes, and also that kids are kids,

[b]Can you buy her a book about parenting?[/b]  It may help her to read about the typical parenting problems people encounter and that way she will see that you child is on par.[/quote]

OP here.  To my mother, asking her to read a book about parenting is akin to asking Einstein to read a board book about numbers.  She's the ULTIMATE parent, why in the world would she read a book by some quack who probably screwed up her own kids?  That is her viewpoint, anyway.  That, and she's not a big reader.  I try to keep a sense of humor about it.  When I told her she must think I peaked at one, she laughed in a way like "haha, it's funny because it's sort of true!"  She always did this, when I was a little kid, she complained about how I was so perfect when I was a baby, then when I was a teenager, she complained about how much better I was when I was a little kid.  This mother's day I told her since she only had one child and I am pregnant with the second, I'm technically double the mother she is and maybe she should just defer to me from now on.[/quote]

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