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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow talk about a situation blown out of proportion...you should have calmed her down in a less dramatic way. You contributed to the chaos. Your in laws apologized, move on. Life is too short to hold a grudge over your child misbehaving.[/quote]

OP here. Where do you see me contributing to the drama? She was crying and scrambling away from my BIL who was angrily grabbing at her legs.  I picked her up and took her away without a word to anyone. As a PP said, this kind of did feel like an instinctive response--I saw that she was terrified and my BIL was angry with her and my first reaction was to get her out of that room.

My DH did not stoop to my BIL's level as my BIL screamed in his face. Instead, he calmly got up with my other daughter and joined me upstairs where we sat with our two crying daughters and tried to figure out the best route. And, we stayed for the party.[/quote]

We let my 3yo climb on our furniture,  but not at other people's houses. So, if my son didn't listen when someone told him to get down,  I think it's fine and expected that the adult would pick him up and remove him. NBD.

But the way you describe your bil angrily trying to grab at her once she was already down is out of line. Also, yelling loudly and scarily is out of line. I probably would have removed my son if my FIL did such a thing (I can't picture anybody else doing that).

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