Other family members who barely see my daughter telling her to be careful over something

We were visiting my MIL and his grandparents yesterday afternoon and were in the garden. They had like the smallest incline from one bit of patio to another and my daughter is 100% fine and has dealt with bigger problems and I was letting her go up and down. But had other family members shouting at her to 'be careful' and bloody confusing her and that was going to knock her confidence. I ended up shouting to everyone to leave her alone. Why can't people just shut up and notice that if the parents are not bothered by the situation other people should stay quiet. Especially when it's people who don't know my daughter.
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I think it’s a very normal reflex for anyone to say that to any child unless they see them all the time and know their limits. Yes it’s annoying but I think you might be overreacting a bit, when they’re just concerned for her safety x

I understand what you mean, it can be frustrating. My mum does a similar thing, or she will tell my son off for doing something that I wouldn't mind him doing 😬

Most people don’t need to be close or see a kid often to care if they feel their is a potential danger and the fact they don’t see her often means they don’t know her abilities so it’s even more normal to be worried, also, you might be once of the good parent who gives her kid freedom because you know what they are capable, but there are also lots of parents who are careless and let their kid run around freely because they don’t even notice dangers around If you have started by telling them there is no need to worry as she is very capable but they kept going, fair enough, if you just went from 0 to 100 as in keeping quiet straight to shouting at them, that would really suck

If you’re the care giver with your child 90% of the time then I wouldn’t worry about the odd ‘be careful’ comment from others

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