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AITA for responding tersely to a SIL's rebuke over email?
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Now, I don’t know about you, but I expect to pull out my vacuum after most dining events that I host, and my dinners are all adults! It's simply a part of cleansing your space post-event. I'm not sure why this SIL got so testy over having to pull out her vacuum, but in my opinion, she was completely out of line with the email.
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I'm really cannot even begin to fathom what kind of response she expected from our narrator that she deemed this unacceptable.
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7-year-old girl leaves crumbs behind at a dinner party, host sends her mom a 3 paragraph email about griping over having been forced to vacuum: 'I was shocked and offended by the intensity of the judgement'
Most parents are aware of the delicate balance of bringing kids into adult spaces. You want them to enjoy themselves, try new foods, and mind their manners, but at the end of the day, they're still just kids. They may try their best, but they simply don't have the same mastery over their emotions, motor skills and social awareness as adults do. A little spill here and there or a brief tantrum is sort of par for the course. The best way to manage is to quickly clean up and move on.
One mom recently found herself in hot water with her sister-in-law after a simple family dinner turned into a full-blown clash over etiquette. Her 7-year-old daughter, spent the evening filling up on bread, and as any parent can guess, ended up with crumbs beneath her chair. Her parents missed it in the moment, but they did not expect to receive a late-night email from the hostess (3 paragraphs long, mind you!) denouncing the child's behavior as unacceptable. To top it off, she suggested that she herself should be allowed to speak directly to the elementary schooler to "educate" her on how to handle crumbs at the table. Mom ended up responding with a brief, but terse, apology, but you'll have to scroll down to find out how that went.