We had an episode with my grandson yesterday
He was supposed to sleep over at my house together with his sister
He is 5 , she is nearly 4 ; we have done it before and everything has gone fine
But yesterday , my grandson at the end of the first week of holiday , hadn’t seen much of his mum, my daughter, as she works 3 days a week and on the 2 days she doesn’t work , she had put him in activity days all day
I think he had been missing her and when she left him last night at my house , he started screaming , crying and even wanted to run into the road after his mothers car
At the time , I was also trying to feed his sister and their cousin who is 18 months old
His behaviour set his sister off and it was pandemonium
I told my daughter by text to come back for them but she was upset and sent her husband instead
Neither of them has apologised to me
In fact my daughter doesn’t want to talk to me at the moment and says I have let her down
She expected me to deal with the situation so that they could stay and have their sleepover
But I just didn’t know what to do
At one point , my grandson hit me and I responded by a tap on his bottom
The whole situation felt out of control
I am very happy to look after my grandchildren but when a problem like this arises I don’t think it should be the responsibility of the grandmother to fix it
What do you think ?
