My inlaws - the entire family have never made any effort with my child. Its always been me visiting them so they can see her, which isnt loads as I dont get on with them because from day one they had huge issues with my boundaries so it caused huge tension between us!
Anyway whenever they do see her they get the hump because around people she doesn't really no she is very shy and holds onto me.
They snigger "urgh mummy's girl" "oh your not still holding onto your mummy" they do it passively aggressive and it really pisses me off! I always say things like "yep she's mummy's girl" and I squeeze her hand and say "its ok mummy's here" with a big smile which i know annoys them but I dont care about there feelings anymore because they clearly dont care about mine or my daughters!
If im around them for a while my daughter will usually warm up to them and be ok but it just drives me insane how they just expect her to be all over them when she doesn't know them!
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My little boy is exactly the same around new people and usually clings onto me too. Sounds like we have the same in laws as we get the same comments and “he needs to know this is his family too” even though he rarely sees my MIL

My FIL is like this. He expects my son to immediately want him and is always up in his face and kissing his face and talking loudly in his face. Trying to take him from me. It’s an issue and honestly my son does not like it mainly because he’s like this. My son has the flu this week and we took my son to see my in laws but my son stayed in the car as to not contaminate there house and to many others- guess what my FIL does- KISSES HIS MOUTH 😭 tries to take him out of the car, all in his face. Like oh my god. I’ve told my husband he’s to much to the point it scares our son and he never says anything about it