Does anyone else have a negative parent like this? lol
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Was your mother always such a negative Nancy to you whilst growing up? It’s a weird response for sure. Almost like she’s purposely trying to gaslight you and undermine your parenting by saying that your daughter (who you can clearly see is smiling and happy) is scared/afraid of you and trying to hide? Lol wtf
My mom does this too sometimes, she reads negative connotations into a lot of things when there really arent any. She does this with everything in her life, it just feels more obvious when she does it with my little one. It can be really frustrating, I have a lot of “WTF?!” moments with her when I share things about my daughter and have started responding with things like “that’s an odd thing to say”, “why would you see this as something negative?” Etc. I think she’s picking up on it as the comments are getting less.
My mil can be like this. I don't think she'd be dumb enough to say it about a picture where the kids are smiling. But she tries to attach really deep meaning to the kids behaviors and sometimes I'm just like wtf are you talking about. Now I censor what I send her.
Lol my mom does it when she misunderstands what I’ve texted her, image aside did you say something like “she was hiding in her car today!” And sent that photo bc I can see my mom going “☹️poor baby” like mom please for the love of god stop😂
My mom is, but I don’t talk to her if I can avoid it.