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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]please listen to me.  I have been there.  you don't like your inlaws and they like the power thing.  heck they probably half knew they'd piss you off doing this and did it for that reason.

just say thank you and give it to your kid a few times a year.  they use them in school even in my kids kinder class.  make it only for special car trips or something.

life is too short for you to hold all this resentment.  parents and in laws pull this crap all the time.  most of us have experienced it.  it is SO FUCKING ANNOYING.  but you have to just get a grip.

thank and move on.  otherwise it will be a laptop next year and they will have won.  they realized how to get you pissed and will enjoy it.[/quote]

I mostly agree with this PP and, OP, I have in-laws like this too.  I get it.  Like this PP above me said, they prob already knew it would annoy you and, if they're like my mil, are poised and waiting for you to have a reaction.

Here's my advice:  don't give it to them.  Do a bland thank-you note and then just handle the Ipad however you decide.  If you want it in your house keep it and establish rules.  If you don't want it in your house, give it away in a manner you decide:  school, library, refift, etc.

That's my advice.  My MIL loves to "spoil for a fight" and so I am just as bland and non-confrontational on the surface to her ("grateful and thankful"), and then I just whatever the heck I want.  A gift is a gift; once it is in your possession you can do whatever you want with it!

Signed,
DIL whose MIL sends 20 new outfits 2x/a year to my 6yo, about 18 of which end up going back to the store for a refund, which I then use for other things, after writing a bland thank-you note to MIL  [/quote]

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