Timeline for Getting grandparents to accept parents' choices
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| Sep 23, 2014 at 19:37 | comment | added | Little Ms Whoops | It doesn't matter if he thinks that he has a right to be consulted (which btw means he believes to have the right to give an opinion, which is exactly the root of your problem. In addition, he prob. expects that opinion to be followed, otherwise he wouldn't give it). You are the parents, this is your business and no-one elses. My own FIL is a doctor, too, and while I often ask his advice (and it's never given without me asking!!), it's my own decision what I do with that. In your shoes, if you father ever touched any medical topic re: your son again, I'd shut down the conversation immediately. | |
| Sep 22, 2014 at 20:46 | comment | added | Bob | We have a family consensus that we (my wife and I) decide on food issues, and even my father agreed to that. Yet he says he has a right to be consulted since he's the "expert". Granted, he's an MD, yet his biochemical background is somewhat dated and not his main focus area. And since he's sending me badly-researched, polemic and insulting newspaper articles about allergy-related diets I get the feeling that he does not care too much about the scientific side of things (as an aside, it's not that I generally agree with all of these alternative medicine and food movements). | |
| Sep 22, 2014 at 20:27 | comment | added | Bob | Yep, that's Christmas of 2013. It is not that we did not talk since, but it was only bilateral talks between my father and me, and my wife and me. | |
| Sep 16, 2014 at 22:15 | history | edited | Little Ms Whoops | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added an afterthought...
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| Sep 16, 2014 at 20:47 | history | answered | Little Ms Whoops | CC BY-SA 3.0 |