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Carolyn Hax, January 9 2024: “How do you tell your mom to stop one-upping you with your kid?”
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Carolyn Hax, January 9 2024: “How do you tell your mom to stop one-upping you with your kid?”

Carolyn really gets this wrong.

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Mar 10, 2024
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Carolyn Hax, January 9 2024: “How do you tell your mom to stop one-upping you with your kid?”
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Link to the original letter here.

My take: To recap, the LW’s mom adores her kid. But when the mom learns the LW wants to do something special for her kid, the mom leaps in and does it first.

This has happened to the LW more than once. Carolyn counsels patience, but the LW ought to call out her mom, now. The shark’s teeth? Okay, maybe. But that business …

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