In Law

My mother in law is generally not awful, she’s very involved with my 5 year old (only child). We fought a bunch when he was an infant over her not making him nap or giving him soda, etc. but other than that we have a good enough relationship.

Now that my son is older, she takes him to a lot more places. He started kindergarten this year and is going to be a big brother so he has a LOT of changes going on, and he obviously can’t just up and go do stuff because he has school.

Well, she’ll make comments to him and say “well I’m going on a cruise this week, but you can’t go because you have school”. (Mind you I wouldn’t have let him go on a cruise without me anyway) just yesterday she told him that her and one of her friends were going to go ride the Polar Express train. When he asked if he could go, she said “nope, you’ve got school!” Like in a mocking tone. And obviously he got really upset because that’s something he absolutely would’ve loved and she went out of her way to tell him she was going and he couldn’t go. I don’t know if I’m overreacting because I try really hard to make sure he doesn’t have “only child syndrome” and he knows that some people get to do things and he won’t always be included. That’s just part of life unfortunately.

My husbands family just tends to be that way, I feel like they are kind of bullies and no one really cares how other people actually feel.