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[quote=Anonymous]SIL is single and unhappy in mid 30s. She has no kids. She not only constantly gives us specific child rearing advice ( you should really allow more trlevision), but also makes comments that really annoy me - her favorite " kids should fit into your life, you shouldn't change your life for your kids."

She also acts like she knows everything about our kids - sees them about 4X a year - and if DC has a meltdown, she immediately steps in and says, "he's really overstimulated by this restaurant/book store. Kids shouldn't be around do many colors/smells/books. It's really hard for them to deal with this level of noise/written words/ blah." (This is generally a full 5 minute soliloquy that is repeated multiple times)

I find it all highly annoying and recently, a totally unrelated person mentioned to me how rude SIL is and how "crazy" (Their word) she sounds.

So, do I call her out? Say something?
Or let it ride , since she's obviously lonely and alone?

* one minor side note is that I think these comments are a larger part of her personality - needs to feel like she knows a lot of experitnces intimately (talks non-stop about her study abroad semester from 12 years ago to prove that she is so worldly), needs to feel authoritative, and needs to feel she belongs - and I think these comments are impeding her personal and professional life . It's not my place to say that, of course, but maybe if she got feedback that her parenting comments are coming across as rude, she'd think about her other beliefs/comments?[/quote]

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