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[quote=Anonymous]OP here -
  DD got punished for asking MIL to set up a FB account for her.  I'm annoyed she ignored our rules, but I'm also not entirely surprised.  Her cousin/best friend recently got a FB account (at 10, so the whole FB rules argument wouldn't have worked) and she's been begging us ever since.  We dealt with her about it though and she knows what she did was wrong, although she still hates us.  ( I swear my own mom is laughing at me whenever I talk to her about DD because she is an exact replica of me at that age).

As for MIL, I'm probably sounding way more harsh than I mean to.  With a sick baby, I have been getting zero sleep for the past week.  I'm not so much annoyed that she set one up, I'm mostly annoyed that she did so without asking us first.  It just makes me a little nervous about what else she might do in the future without asking us first.  Overall, MIL is a very nice person and we have always gotten along well.  I just think there are times where she thinks she knows better than us.  Of course, my mom can be like that sometimes too, so perhaps it is just a grandparent thing.

DD is supposed to be going there in a couple of weeks for a girls night with her cousins (painting nails, girly movies, virgin strawberry daiquiris etc) so I think DH and I need to address the whole, not doing things without our permission thing.  Just not sure how to go about it.  Don't want MIL to take it the wrong way and call us to ask permission on petty things "Oh DD wants some ice cream, is it ok if I get her one?"  etc.  I can see her doing this out of spite since she'll feel like we are attacking her judgement.  And PPs are right...we need to nip this in the bud before her teenage years.  [/quote]

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