We all want to be there for our kid's first—and be able to make decisions about the ones we can. From their first steps to first sleepover, these are important milestones and, yeah, we want to have some say in their first haircut, too. But one mom's mother-in-law completely crossed the line and snuck behind her back to take her baby girl for a "trim." Despite mom specifically stating they were going to wait to touch her locks, this MIL had her granddaughter's hair secretly chopped off—and then tried to cover it up.
But then Grandma quickly split, before her daughter-in-law had a chance to take off her girl's warm outerwear. "I finally got to pulling her hat off and I was gobsmacked. All her curly hair is GONE! It wasn't a trim, all her hair is complete gone," she wrote.
The mom said that she knows it might seem silly, but she's insanely angry that her MIL went directly against her wishes. And to make matters worse, mom asked her MIL if she kept a lock of her daughter's beautiful hair that she could have. Her mother-in-law said yes, but then REFUSED TO GIVE IT TO HER.
"That added fuel to the fire and I told her she's completely out of order and she best avoid me for a while," she added. "Thinking about it I'm probably completely overreacting, I'm just so mad!"
Online, other people were in agreement: This MIL was nuts. Comments ranged from people exclaiming that the act was "outrageous" to suggesting that the mother-in-law was "marking her territory" and to "cut her loose."
Later in the thread, the mom clarified that she wasn't even exaggerating when she said that ALL of her daughter's hair was gone. "[My daughter] had masses of curls at the back of her head, the top was short because it grew slower. I think the hairdresser might've tried to make it matching lengths," she described. But really, no matter how short her MIL cut her daughter's hair, it was still completely wrong of her to do it.
"I would still be fuming if it was a trim," she wrote.
Most importantly, many felt strongly that mom should never leave her MIL and child alone again.
In an update to her post, the mom wrote that after reading everyone's reactions, "I'm so glad I'm not overreacting." She wrote that her husband is on her side and is not talking to his stepmother. But still, the deceit stings. "I feel so robbed!" she wrote. "I wasn't there for it, I didn't consent to it, and she's not allowing me to have a curl. Who does she think she is?"
The mom also revealed that this wasn't the first time that her MIL has undermined her parenting and "she does come across as quite judgy." But for now, the mom wrote that she doesn't feel 100 percent comfortable leaving her daughter with her grandmother. "Despite being a parent herself, she seems clueless on how to parent," the mom finished.
This post was originally published on Mom.com sister site CafeMom.
