I think I’m gonna send this. My mil has been sooo obsessed and insensitive about death for awhile. Like my fil’s sister and dad passed away and she will be like “they DIED. They’re dead. It’s because they didn’t take care of themselves.” Or “when ‘Lauren’ got cancer and DIED, xyz.” Right in front of my fil and husband! My SIL and I are like wtf how rude and mean. She also just casually talks about it all the time to my 4 year old twins. So now she’s got my 4 year olds talking about it a lot. And the other night one of them were like “when sister and I get older, will will get to die together.” 🤬🤯🤦🏽‍♀️ and if someone is telling my daughters about another person, my kids almost always now say “did they die?” It’s totally a focus now. So I have talked to her about this in the past and she said “well it’s something that happens inevitably and we need to desensitize them to it so they’re not hurt when someone they love does.” And so I basically said “no, fuck that. You don’t get to decide that. My husband and I will choose how to handle things with our kids. So stop talking about death with them.”

It’s so freakin weird. So I let them babysit yesterday so my husband and I could go to a marriage conference. When I picked them up my daughter was like “they showed us so many videos AND a movie!!!” (So I’m like ugh I don’t like them watching too much tv and would prefer that their grandparents interact with them if they insist on babysitting. But no huge deal I’ll overlook that). But then my daughter goes “one video was about dying! But I’m 4 so I am big enough. I wasn’t scared.” I could scream. What the fuck. Am I overreacting? Is there something else I should make sure to include in this text? Take something out? Help please