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Sometimes your parents can want to get too involved in how you raise your kids. This is what you can do to deal with such situations
Sometimes your parents can want to get too involved in how you raise your kids. This is what you can do to deal with such situations
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In an ideal world, the new mom will more fully appreciate what her own mother went through as a parent, and the new granny will take pride in seeing her daughter handle those challenges for herself. But this is often not the case.

The shared excitement of a newborn can quickly dwindle as mom makes decisions about what she wants her baby to eat, wear and learn, and her mother has her own – very different – ideas of how her grandchild should be raised.

Bongi Ngobese (33), a mother to a five-month-old daughter, tells DRUM arguments with her mother regarding her daughter’s upbringing have become the norm.

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