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[quote=Anonymous]I can't imagine that I would have handled myself any better than you OP. Your MIL began drawing *on the table*?! It's not like you can brace yourself for such random and clearly inappropriate, unacceptable behavior. I can brace myself for nitpicking comments on my appearance, critiques of my cooking, complaints about how we dress the kids, training DD to be a "princess" etc etc etc - but just defacing property for no reason, I would never have expected that and I would have been horrified in that situation. Maybe I too would have snatched the pencil. Maybe I would have exclaimed "OMG, what are you doing?!" Or maybe I would have grabbed the nearest piece of paper and slid it right under the pencil and calmly said "Oh, here you go MIL! DS, enjoy this piece of paper" and if I had reacted that way, that's great, but there's no guarantee, IMO, that one will react ideally when in shock and when what it being done clearly needs to be stopped. [/quote]
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