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When your mother-in-law undermines your parenting in front of your child

My husband's mother keeps criticizing how I discipline our son and yesterday she told him in front of me that he doesn't have to listen to mama when she gets angry like that.

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A parent struggles with maintaining authority and cultural boundaries when extended family directly contradicts their parenting approach.

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