Silly comments from MIL

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Silly comments from MIL
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Wed, 01-09-2008 - 1:27am

My MIL is in her 80's....but my ex-MIL is in her 60's and they both have said similar crazy things to me.
We were at my MIL's 2 weeks ago. They have a guest bedroom that is FREEZING. They obviously have a heating issue in that room, so this time my DH and I came with our own electric heater! The bedding was fine, had an electric blanket. But if the room is about 50 degrees, I can't sleep...I feel like I'm in a tent outside. We've mentioned the cold room to her before.
So she called me today to apologize for the lack of bedding on the bed. I told her the issue was more of having a cold room. Long story short, she said "Oh, maybe you need a sleeping cap!" I wanted to say "No, I think you need new duct work." I don't know, it just sounds like she was trying to put the blame on me.
One more story: my 2 yo has her first ear infection. She said "My kids never had ear infections because they always wore a cap." Or how about this: "My son had really bad colic so I put booties on him full time and it stopped right away!"
I've had to explain to my ex and now current MIL that colds, infections, etc. are not caused by the cold weather. They agree, but insist the cold makes things happen.
I do like my current MIL more than the ex, but I never get these old wives tales from my own mother! I just replied to current MIL and told her "Yeah, I try to keep a hat on her, but it's hard when she pulls it off...I do the best I can."
Do your MIL's have these helpful hints all the time? About how they raised their children the "Right" way?
She also loves to either read child-rearing articles to us over the phone or send them. I think she's forgotten I have a 13 yo and 11 yo who are pretty decent. LOL
Maybe she's bored...but she also says she's very busy. Funny.
I guess I do have little to complain about, but it gets annoying after awhile.

What do you think? Any similar experiences?

Kim

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Wed, 01-09-2008 - 7:50am

BTDT....luckily for me, all the ILs

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Wed, 01-09-2008 - 7:59am

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Wed, 01-09-2008 - 9:04am

LOL, my MIL is in her 80s and she sounds exactly like yours!!!! She is very opinionated, and has some pretty crazy ideas in her head. I get those kinds of comments all the time. I have learned to just nod & smile, nod & smile. :-) She lives right around the corner, so I have to do A LOT of nodding & smiling. :-)

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Wed, 01-09-2008 - 9:12am

Thankfully no...my MIL is one of

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Wed, 01-09-2008 - 9:21am

Not too much...just comments that my firstborn was obviously starving to death nursing because he had colic and was too skinny in her book.

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Wed, 01-09-2008 - 9:48am

Nod and smile sounds good, I can do that over the phone, too! LOL

Thanks for the laughs this morning. Glad I'm not the only one.
The sweater idea about the milk is a new one to me. Funny.
The breastfeeding is foreign to most MIL's these days!

Kim

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Wed, 01-09-2008 - 9:51am
kind of funny... i had this conversation about generation gaps with jackie just yesterday. Something about eating too much sugar and getting sugar diabetes....lol she could not understand why she could not eat a piece of chocolate and then have a "soda" and then have some other sugar candy.........lol.... I told her it has alot to do with the generation gaps....... older people have been told that so they still think its true.....they do not accept todays way of thinking...... she finally understood.
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Wed, 01-09-2008 - 4:07pm

Not from my MIL--who never comments on my parenting--but from my mother. Like these gems: "People in my generation just didn't have things like food allergies and autism." (Nope, you just screwed up the environment so thoroughly that later generations did!)


And as I'm buying organic produce: "Pesticides on fruit never hurt anyone. When I was a child, we ran after the DDT trucks because they sprayed colorful clouds behind them."


And this about my then-14 month old son, who had to be held all the time: "We spanked babies who cried like that. We certainly didn't pick them up and encourage them."


Oddly enough, one of my brothers and I were considered "gifted." We must have inherited our IQs from some other ancestor.


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Wed, 01-09-2008 - 4:17pm

LOL about the breastmilk - my MIL thought that my baby would be getting sour milk if I nursed her in the summer when it was hot!!


Does she think they put cows in a refrigerator??

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Wed, 01-09-2008 - 4:19pm

"Pesticides on fruit never hurt anyone. When I was a child, we ran after the DDT trucks because they sprayed colorful clouds behind them."


ROFL!!!


Doesn't that explain alot - I bet that's what's wrong with my MIL!!

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