Not pregnancy related.

Why do they feel they can comment on your parenting skills?!
We went to my mums for dinner today and my 2 year old poured juice all over his plate on purpose. So I instantly removed him from the table and put him on the naughty step where he stays for 2 mins. This is our routine at home. If he gets off the step his 2 mins starts again. It works for us, he sits there, calms down then when the time is up we calmly get down to his level, we say why he was put there and ask that he wont do it again etc etc, he says sorry, we have a cuddle and go back to doing whatever.

So there he was on the naughty step and he got off trying to come back through. So my oh put him back on and said thats 2 minutes starting again.

My grandma then decides to say 'do you honestly expect him to understand that?' And laughed. Erm yes actually I do expect him to understand that because we have brought him up to understand discipline and routines!! He does it at home and it works perfectly for us!! He proved her wrong by sitting there for 2 mins then coming through and eating perfecly!! (even colli and broccoli which he normally refuses to eat haha)

But she soooo wound me up!!

Then my dad decided to tell him off for the juice incident! We were passed it, he was behaving himself and I had already dealt with the situation!!! My poor oh looked like he was about to burst he was so angry with their input haha.

Rant over

Hun time out does work for most children as you know it works for you.

Some people just feel like there way is better etc.

I would be so mad too if someone had tried to tell me how to deal with it. And I don't think it was fair that your dad then told him off again for it either.

It can be hard to stay quiet when you see parenting that you don't agree with lol but time out is an appropiate method to me lol. I know I am struggle to keep my mouth shut with OH's niece at the moment but that's down to lack of parenting skills lol

Sod em! Sounds like you are doing a great job

My mum sometimes does that with my niece and nephew (repremands them when my sister has already dealt with it or before my sister has the chance to) so Ive told her in advance that if me or my OH are there she must never interfere and if I have a parenting method I want to use she mustnt say anything about it! She means well but I couldnt bear her trying to take over or control the situation if Im around so I dont blame you for ranting!

I will be trying your method with LO when he starts being naughty and if anyone undermines me they won't ever be looking after him alone as a child needs routine to understand how to behave, not mixed messages coming from all directions. I would have been so mad too. But ANYTHING makes me 100X more mad than it usually would lately, SO hormonal xxx

My mum annoys me with time out, if she's around and LO has gone in the corner she always talks to him and goes on and on, im like excuse me can you let me do it my way please!
We don't talk to him when he's in the corner to let him have some space and calm down,
I just ignore it but it really winds dh up lol x

Lol. Weve actually stopped going round half as much because my brother aged 11 is so naughty that hes going to be a bad influence on my son, so why on earth they feel they can interfere with our way is beyond me!! They need to sort their own kid out first lol. My oh has said if it happens again then he doesnt want to go round for tea again, it really got to him today. They always have something to say or input!
xx

I think it will be my mother in law that will disagree with our parenting style... I already want to make a card for her that says "Don't tell me how to raise my kids, I'm still dealing with one of yours and he needs work"