My 2 year old has always had a close relationship with my mum, they spend a great deal of time together however my partner’s step mum (basically his mum) is not hugely interested in spending time with her especially all together she wants to do stuff 1-1 with my daughter. I gave her the responsibility of collecting my daughter from nursery every other Tuesday on her week off as I needed someone for the Tuesdays anyway. Everything was fine until 6 weeks ago when my daughter was unwell, she screamed at nursery pick up and didn’t want to go with MIL, we assumed it was because she was poorly however it had continued to the point where nursery have raised their concerns with me because they never hear my daughter make noise like she does when grandma picks her up. I’ve tried explaining to MIL that perhaps spending a bit more time with her might help get her used to it etc but she’s just saying “she hates me” all the time. It’s making my partner paranoid that something may have happened to cause this despite the fact he trusts her, he can’t find another explanation which I get. However I also despise the woman (secretly, I’ve never made that apparent to my daughter or my MIL) so I’m thinking is this just my daughter being a good judge of character (oops), had something happened, or is this just a phase that she will snap out of?
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Why do you despise her? I think if she’s suddenly just started to do this after normally being ok then something may be up. Have you spoken to your daughter and asked her why she doesn’t want to go with your MIL?