Grandma Takes an 8-Month-Old to Get Her Ears Pierced & Her Parents Go Ballistic

When it comes to your appearance, it's up to you what you want your style to be. What about before you can speak, though? That's when you rely on your parents to make decisions for you both in this matter and others. Until you can make your own decisions, they're meant to step in and make sure that you're taken care of.

A New Mother Looking for Advice

When you're a new parent, you can feel nervous that your decision-making might have been fueled by the type of anxiety that comes with being a first-time parent.

Then again, this person was pretty sure that they weren't the one in the wrong here or even overly paranoid in general. However, they did pose this situation to Reddit, asking if they were overreacting. We'll tell the story and let you be the judge.

Introducing Annie

We have a few key characters in this story that are important to know, so - as the OP did in their original post - we'll give you a quick recap.

The characters include our narrator, who's a new mother, and her daughter named Annie (eight months old). The other party in question is a grandmother who seemed determined to share a moment with her granddaughter, who perhaps could have waited. Either way, there was a boundary crossed somewhere in this story.

Moving Back

Welcoming a new member of the family is a great way to bring the family together again. Prior to this, the mother posted that her mother-in-law hadn't lived near them in a while.

Really, it was four months prior to this story that she moved to the same area that these new parents lived in, which just so happened to also be the area they grew up in.

Getting to Know Mother-in-Law

It always helps to know a little more about the person you're making a judgment on to see where they were coming from or if this seems to be a pattern of behavior.

As far as this person was concerned, their mother-in-law seemed nice enough and more than happy to be involved. Sure, she could seem opinionated and a little pushy about those opinions at times, but nothing to the point that these parents saw something like this around the corner.