Grandparents Needed to Learn a Lesson
Just last week my wife took my kids (6 and 3) for a visit to my parents. While romping outside, our 6-year old starts picking up rocks and throwing them.
My wife tells her not to (for reasons obvious to the both of us), but my mother proceeds to tell her it’s OK, and also that she should throw them at the geese (my parents live on a lake, the Canadian geese are a nuisance because they are many and poo EVERYWHERE).
My wife, although mad that my mother has usurped her parental authority, doesn’t say anything in the interest of keeping the peace.
Not five minutes later, my daughter, for no apparent reason whatsoever, whips a rock at my dad, hitting him in the temple.
Thankfully, he blew it off as an “accident”, but at least he and my mother both got to witness why my wife told our child not to throw rocks in the first place.