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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh he’s 6. No way I’m picking a fight with adults I otherwise get along with because of a 6 year old’s toy, nor am
I subjecting anyone to sorting or rebuilding. If he wants to, he can. If not, whatever.[/quote]

Unless you have some reason to believe she did it maliciously, all you have is an old lady who put away some toys and thought she was being helpful.  I absolutely would not yell at her or demand she buy my kid anything.  I can’t believe you treat your mothers like this.[/quote]

Agree. The worst thing about the internet is that I have discovered that most people are horrible, selfish beings. Grandmas clean up. They try to help. If your kid is “devastated” by this then he has a pretty charmed life. [/quote]

My grandmother helped when I was a child.  Papers my mother hadn’t seen (and had to sign) were thrown out, because she “cleaned off the table” so we could eat as soon as my mother got home.  She also washed clothes in hot water “to get them clean” and shrank them, caused colors to run and dyed one load pink.

The difference is that she never scolded my siblings or me.  She ignored us when she threw out papers.   (Yes, I remember it clearly.  When she throws out papers at her house, she’s always torn them up to burn them.  She tore up my permission slip for THREE field trips, and it was debatable whether I would get to go to the first one, because my teacher couldn’t find an original to copy and didn’t have time to type another.  Schools that require identical forms when they aren’t available again are annoying).

She also never took apart something we’d spent effort to do.  She was really trying to help, because she knew my mom had a lot on her plate.  And when my mother asked her to stop “helping,” and explained that my sister and I could handle it, she did some cooking instead.[/quote]

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