Please help before I go crazy.
Long story short I have a 8 month old and we have a family member who is serious worrier (like nothing I have ever experienced before), if the baby coughs they ask “what’s wrong” if the baby crawls too close to the sofa, they will pick him up because he could bang his head (baby moves at 1mph) and if the baby cries, they get upset because the baby is upset, I could go on but I am hoping you get the gist.
What I am wanting to know, has anyone else experienced anything like this and if so how did you cope? Does anyone know if and what impact this may have on the baby?
Thanks in advance
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You could quote Montessori about letting children discover things for themselves (within reason) and giving them independence to develop. It doesn’t need to be a literal quote but you could say what you’re doing isn’t helping baby’s development?
My husband worried about our 6mo bc is his first baby, we meet when my daughter was 3 so he didn’t get to experience the baby stage and he would freak out about ANYTHING and I started explaining to him that it’s okay if baby cries a bit or if he rolls over bc he is learning just make sure to keep an eye at him if he gets tired and he is face down or if he sees that he won’t settle down with a toy/stuffy or anything and he has done so much better
Literally tell them to stop and shut up 😂
Tell them to shut the fuck up 😂 politely my nana was like this and I ended up getting really pissed off and said it’s my fucking baby you keep your neb out 😂