Care & Feeding, January 18 2024: I’m Full of Great Parenting Ideas for My Grieving Daughter-in-Law. But She Won’t Listen."

Knave or fool? Is this mother-in-law intentionally horrid, or just too blind to see?

Link to the original letter here.

My take: To recap, the LW’s son died eight months ago, leaving her daughter-in-law with three-year-old twins. The LW worries that her daughter-in-law is overwhelmed—she worries principally, as far as I can tell, because the daughter-in-law resists her very bossy suggestions, and doesn’t want to “socialize” with her.

So w…