So for whatever reason, my wife's family (her parents, cousins, and siblings) have this notion that I am overly protective. Whenever I make comments that I am uncomfortable with whatever situation they have the baby in, they either make comments about me being overprotective, give me sideways looks, or they outright laugh at me. Last night alone at a family Christmas party I tried to tell them not to let her shove an entire Ritz cracker in her mouth, not to let her sit and play in the entrance/exit to the kitchen (small house, very crowded, lots of people coming and going), stop letting the younger (10 and 12 YO) cousins run around with the baby, stop letting the baby chew on a small refrigerator magnet which was an obvious choking risk, and not to let the dog known to be a biter sniff around the baby.
This is pretty much every time we get together with them, which is often. They just come right out and voice their opinion about how unreasonable I am being. Hell, even the older cousins kids have told me that I need to chill out. I have gotten to the point to where I am self-conscious about voicing that I am uncomfortable. Last night wife's cousin's husband who is a firefighter had run across the room to pull the Ritz cracker out of baby's mouth. In my mind, I'm thinking "Okay, so I'm not the only one." I just find it incredibly offensive. I try not to be the helicopter dad. We don't have these issues with my family, my friends, or the wife's friends. I just feel like they treat my baby like a doll and it scares the fuck out of me.
So today we are having a birthday party for my older son from another relationship. I warned my wife that I am going to start putting my foot down with her family. Of course, that turned into an argument. Any suggestions? Am I being unreasonable?
Submitted December 17, 2017 at 11:24PM by BG1234567 http://ift.tt/2AJs6qk Parenting
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