Friday, April 30, 2010

Need some serious advise on how to handle my mom and my kids interaction?

I have set some major bounderies with my mom and have pretty much had to distance her from my kids and me. She believes that I am raising my kids wrong, I am a sinner and going to hell, that Satan has influence in our lives etc. She doesn't preach to the kids.. but her message comes across pretty clear anyway. She hopes that my kids will choose the truth and reject the way I raise them. I have had to changed my phone number. That didn't work. So I moved. She just got off the phone with my daughter and my mom was asking all sorts of evasive questions... she wants to know exactly where our holiday cabin is. When are we coming up. Can we come down. Are we going through her town on the way to the cabin. I have talked to her about evasive questions before and making plans with my kids behind my back. I don't want to change my number and cut her off more!! Help! HOW do I get her to respect bounderies?Need some serious advise on how to handle my mom and my kids interaction?
if she hasn't learned to respect your bounderies by now, she's not likely to. Do whatever you need to do to protect your children. Monitor their phone calls and end the conversation as soon as she starts to interrogate them/ dig for info. Change your number so only you can call her (make your number private/unlisted).Need some serious advise on how to handle my mom and my kids interaction?
You do just what you are doing. If you don't want her to have input on raising your children or religious aspects of their lives let her know that you do not appriciate it, and if she breaks those boundries then you are going take even more drastic measures. I am a Christian, but I would never begin to influence children one way or another, and in the Bible it says that children are to Obey their parents. Your mother is a bit messed up and how this works. Do what you must, try not to separate the children from thier grandmother but if you must you must.
you cant she is going to do what she thinks is right no matter what you say





i have no contact with my mother either and it is for my kids safety as she is married to a child molester
You have got to just sit down with her and have a open heart to heart talk let her know that these are your kids and you are the parent, and you will raise them how you wont them to be raised, she had her chance to raise her kids now it is yours weather she agrees with your parenting or not, it's not up to her, tell that if she does not stop, then you will have no choice but to take drastic measures and you really don't wont to that for your kids, tell her if she has a problem or questions to talk to you and not the kids, they are kids not adults and should not have to deal with adult situations, you both have to think of the kids here and come to some agreement because they are the ones who are innocent and who don't deserve to get hurt or in the middle of adult things
If you are feeling threatened by her, or if you feel that she is jeopardizing your children's safety in any way, you could possibly get a restraining order against her. I know it sounds harsh, but your children's safety trumps everything. She is interfering with your parenting, and it is your decision to raise your children however you see fit. As long as the kids are taken care of and they aren't being neglected in any way, she has no right to intervene like that. It doesn't sound like talking to her will do much good, so you might have to take it to the next level. Good luck!

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