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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My (unmarried, no kids, no experience with kids) SIL does this too. It drives me bananas. It's quite irritating, to be honest - it's all these small things, like telling child when to stop or to slow down or to hold hands in situations where those instructions aren't needed - I think she does it b/c she has a need to feel like she knows everything- like "parenting is so easy and u'm already better than my sil b/c i'm making my 4 year old nephew hold my hand at the playground until he gets all the way to the climbing structure. i can't believe his stupid mother doesn't understand the dangers of the playground."

full disclosure - i once did something similar - my husband's cousin was letting their 1 year old play at the top of a semi-circular staircase that was 40 stairs high - she thought it was totally fine and that the kid could get up and down as she needed to, but me (a non-parent at the time) thought i knew better and told her she should watch her daughter more closely, or take her all the way down. to her credit, she didn/t slug me :)[/quote]Really?  The way you describe the situation with the cousin, I'd be worried about that kid, too, unless mom and dad were playing near the kid and watching her.  Can you tell us more why you are rethinking what happened?  Maybe there's a piece missing that would make sense once you explain it.[/quote]

nope, the parents were sitting at the dinner table. the kid was in the foyer playing at the top of the stairs. the mom knew (thought?) the kid was stair-safe and plainly thought i was paranoid and crazy, to her credit, the kid went down and came up several times after my comment. the house is my in-laws and i STILL don't like that staircase and my kids are 4 and 6.[/quote]Thanks for elaborating.  Have to say I think the cousin is crazy! But that's me.[/quote]

Yep, that's you.  So you can do something different with [b]your[/b] children.[/quote]And that's what I did![/quote]

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