My sister swears her kids are all perfect, and that they are the most well-behaved kids ever. I just had my first baby girl and she had her 3rd baby (and first girl) 6 months after. My baby was one of the "good" babies at first, but then she learned how to crawl and started getting curious about everything she sees (totally normal, right? Lol). My sister brought me along with her on her road trip and ever since, she feels the need to constantly hint about how her baby is the "baby ever" when mine starts to misbehave. So, my daughter is 11 months right now... she's at that phase where she is almost ready to start walking on her own and wants to do everything on her own! Since we have been away from home, staying at family members homes, I don't let her explore much because she likes grabbing everything and then throwing whatever she grabs straight at the floor, so of course I'm always there making sure she doesn't break anything because I'm responsible for her and I want to avoid anything getting damaged. My sisters daughter is 5 months old, all she does is laugh when people talk to her, sit on the floor and grab whatever she can so she can put it in her mouth and cry when she is hungry, has a dirty diaper, or wants to be held. Now, my daughter likes to throw fits when I don't let her get her way, cries when she has missed a nap time.. but she won't let me sleep her if its not quiet, when there is a lot of noise she fights it since she wants to be in the mix of whatever is going on, or if I don't let her crawl wherever she wants.When my baby cries or throws one of her fits by yelling or etc, my sister starts bragging about how she has the best baby because she doesn't cry ever or even throws a fit. Sometimes she will tell me that I need to let her cry it out, but yet when it happens to other parents with their kids she will comment to me "they need to control their kids". Sometimes she even suggests how if my daughter was hers, she would've already spanked her for misbehaving. I am strongly against this because it doesn't teach kids anything at all, ever. Every thing she has to say to me about parenting bothers me so much, but if I try to tell her that I want to raise my daughter how I want to she gets offended. My sister swears she knows everything there is about raising a baby. She even tells me that I need to be more patient with my daughter, but yet she has yelled at her daughter when she was 4 months old for crying when she had a really bad migraine. I have commented on her parenting but only for obvious reasons... for example when she decided to put head on shoulders on her baby's mild cradle crap only because it bothered her when she saw it, not cleaning her baby's pierced ears with the after-care solution, not curing her baby's earring infection she currently has, or because she leaves her baby with anyone without even asking if they want her just so she can relax and be on her phone. One time she was so mad because a lady made a big deal and called the cops on the lady (my sister) who left her 7 year old, 5 year old and 5 month old in the car with the a/c on while she picked up a package at the post office... the lady was right to do so because it is against the law. My sister isn't a perfect mother and neither am I, but how can I get her to stop with the comments?This road trip has been the worst, and I wish my sister would stop comparing my baby with hers!!!! via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2wO8nmM
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