5. They don’t care about your family rules.
If your grandparents are only seeing their grandchild a few times a year, then you can definitely compromise and let them spoil your children. However, if your child is spending a lot of time at their grandparent’s house, they need to respect your family rules.
If you don’t want your child to eat cookies or other sweets during weekdays, your in-laws need to respect that. If you don’t want your child to spend an extra hour watching cartoons each night, your in-laws should respect that, too.
You can say something like: “She’s such a picky eater that I hate for her to fill up on cookies. I’m going to bring over some healthy snacks.” If they still don’t respect your rules, then tell them that you’ll bring all dental bills to them.
We can all agree that most grandparents love their grandchildren very, very much, so they want to spoil them as much as possible, but sometimes besides the fact that they’re breaking family rules, they are also creating bad habits for their grandchildren.
Make sure to also check: 6 Things You Should Never Say to Your Family.
