My son married his wife last year. They have a 15 month old boy. I do not agree with how they are raising him, but I think it is more my daughter in law than my son.
She still breast feeds frequently and in public, she co sleeps and has no routine for his bedtime. She says it is some rubbish called attaching parenting but I think it is nonsense and will just result in a spoilt brat.
I babysat for them last week and put him to bed ( they have a cot in their room which he has never slept in) at 7. He screamed until they got home. In the end I shut the door and left him because he has to learn.
My daughter in law was not happy but I told her that he must have a bedtime routine. She does not work so I suspect this is why he doesn't have one.
What can I do to change her? She plays with him all day, rarely does any housework and is generally not a housewife at all. I worry for my son and grandson.
Talk about a blast from the past! I find it very hard to see how such a very old post has come to be resurrected for no obvious reason. It all sounds very odd indeed to me.
Your d.i.l sounds like a lovely loving mum to me Modesty Take a look at 'cut out of their lives, that could be you if you do not become more mindful for your d.i.l & S's way of bringing up their child, and well said myfan & Grumpy
My nasty s.i.l, when he first meet my D; I came in from work and he was holding my D on the settee, to stop her going to my little GD,who was hysterical by that time in her cot, I don't know how long she had been like that, but feel it was a lot long than 10mins, my D was really distressed in being stopped to go to her baby, he said it was the way to go! I'm having nightmares now, re-living that scene! My poor little GD