Rhiannon wrote:StevePerryHair wrote:She said "well I do it around my nieces and nephews, I didn't know it would bother you"

I would have punched her right in the gut for that!
Me too. And with me, its not just smoking, its anything where your children and their health are concerned. My mother rolls her eyes in an inappropriately judgemental way at a lot of the things my sister does with her two kids, and I'm talking normal, well within reason things, like not smoking around the kids or things like "oh, she doesn't allow them to have this or that... I'll get yelled at if I give that to them... *eyeroll* ", as if she's personally offended by the fact that someone has said, "No, I don't want them to have that." My response to anyone who does that is, "Um... its not
your child." She doesn't smoke around the kids but she does get annoyed by the fact that she can't.
My ex-mother-in-law used to to that too. She would totally make snide comments about other peoples' parenting. Once it was my friends' baby... she was a month old and there was a barbecue... baby's mom had her in a snuggly, and the baby was out like a freakin' light, slept through the whole thing. MIL bitched about it later, telling me that she "
better NOT ever catch" me doing that, bring a month old baby to a noisy party. Never had to bite my tongue harder than that day. I wanted to tell her to fuck off on the spot.