AITA for telling my mother-in-law she can't correct my kids' table manners at my house?
me (41F), married to Andre 15 years, four kids from 8 to 19. his mother (68F) comes for dinner most weeks. she corrects them constantly. elbows, holding a fork, saying ma'am. it's not cruel, it's how she was raised and how she raised andre. my 8 year old asked me last month if grandma likes her. that's what did it. i told her, privately, in the kitchen, that at my table i handle the corrections. i said she's welcome to say something to me and i'll deal with it. she said in her house children learned respect and that she's not going to sit there and watch. andre says i should let it go because she's 68 and she won't change and it's two hours a week. two hours a week is 104 hours a year of my daughter being told she's doing it wrong by the person whose approval she wants most.
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