"This ignited an argument that escalated to a shouting match, which culminated in her dumping a cup of soda on his head. They did this right in front of Alicia, her friends, cousins, and no small number of other parents who were there with their own children. The staff ended up asking my in-laws to leave. Alicia was left in tears and asked why her grandparents are always mean to each other."
"visiting with the condition that they either get into some kind of anger management or from now on they will have to take turns coming over individually. My husband thinks this is too much to ask; he says his parents have "always been like this" and to let it go. I don't think it's asking too much to shield my daughter from their dysfunction because two people in their 60s can't behave like adults for a few hours. This is a perfectly reasonable position, right?"
A six-year-old's birthday party was ruined when grandparents engaged in a public shouting match and one dumped soda on the other in front of guests. The child witnessed the incident, cried, and asked why her grandparents are always mean to each other. A parent proposes a six-month visiting timeout requiring anger management or alternating individual visits to protect the child's emotional well-being. The spouse resists, saying the grandparents have always behaved this way and urging to let it go. The situation calls for firm boundaries, clear expectations, and prioritizing the child's safety over tolerance of longstanding dysfunction.
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