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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP who posted that OP's children will be in settings throughout their lives where they are forced to sit at a table with people saying grace, and might as well get used to it now. I posted this based on my own extensive experience, as a kid and as an adult. I'm middle aged. I've experienced this again and again throughout my life. Do I live in a bubble? There's no way to tell, but I would guess not, since I grew up in DC around people from many different backgrounds. When I was growing up we said a simple grace at the table and yet I remember feeling really weird holding someone' else's parents' hands at their table when I visited friends, or closing my eyes to pray like others at the table did (I kept my eyes open).

Saying grace before eating is part of life for many people and you might as well give your kids at least some minimal experience of it, keeping it short and sweet, so they at least know what it's about. At least talk to them about it, tell them that their grandmother says grace but we don't and here's why, and here's what you're going to be expected to do when you're at someone else's house eating dinner, etc.[/quote]

They see it at grandma’s house already. No need for some big preparatory lecture. The issue isn’t what grandma does, it’s what how op raises her kids. Actually the real issue is op’s inability to tell grandma to butt out, because that would solve it and then we wouldnt have this thread. [/quote]

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