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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My MIL is in her mid70s and she has enough sense to send a card and candy to both our son and daughter. Sorry, grandparents don't get a pass on manners and common sense because they are old.[/quote]

10:10 here. I never said that "old folks get a pass on manners and common sense" at all. Just that some folks in older generations might think of things differently from today's parents, such as thinking flowers are something men give women and not vice versa. That is not bad manners, it's just a different way of doing things than we would use today. It's not an excuse but it is an explanation. OP needs to get over the excessive anger at this silly oversight; her daughter will only be scarred for life by this if OP makes a stink about it by throwing a hissy fit and branding the in-laws with a scarlet S for Sexists as some posters would have her do.

If anything, the manners are missing in today's parents who never cut their elders even one bit of slack, and who always instantly assume the worst about in-laws or their own parents for even the most innocent "infractions" of today's perfect and inviolable parenting standards. 
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