An intrusive grandmother?

Question

I have a friend with a child who is a year and nine months old. This friend has been put out and is staying with me, her mother, and my father until she moves in september. But, her mother is intrusive with the baby. She reprimands my friend in front of the baby about how the baby is being raised (eating cheerios alone in her high chair while my friend googles something, the baby had blisters because when my friend picked her up from the father he did not put socks on her, etc.). She then says things to the child like "your going to have to suffer" or if the baby cries while my friend is doing something "do you want to be important?" How do you get a person like that to back off? My friend finally told her to stop saying things like that to her kid, but she just blew it off. How does one get an intrusive grandmother to knock it off and let her daughter raise her own baby.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, your friend is going to have to move out ASAP, because as long as she's in her mother's house, her mother can and will say whatever she pleases.

Answer 2

I agree with Tangerine. You can not change an ugly person or their behavior. That is probably how she raised your friend also. I feel badly for her and hope she can keep a positive attitude until September.