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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I know you already handled it, but I wanted to give my take on this.  if your DD knows the rules, that should be enough at her age.  And that would be what I would focus on - not that MIL didn't know the rules, but that DD DID know the rules.  that's how we teach our kids when they are old enough to get it.

Bottom line is that YOU have rules for YOUR house and YOUR DD.  And your dd should know enough that if MIL said, let's set up a facebook account for you, she should have said, I can't Mom and Dad won't let me have one yet.  And if our DD didn't correct MIL and set up the FB account, our DD is the one that gets in trouble for not saying no.

I use the analogy that our rule is no alcohol until your 21.  (or whatever bad vice - no drugs, no guns, whatever).  If someone offers you drugs, it's YOUR responsibility to say no.  we can't control what the world offers you (including grandma, neighbors, friends, aunts uncles) but we can control what we say yes and no to.  And you know YOUR rules and you must follow them.

Of course, we also let grandparents, aunts uncles, etc. know what we approve of or not, but when something like this happens, and your DD is old enough to know better, it's on her to police herself.  [/quote]

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