When you have a child it is very helpful to have family members and other loved ones around who can help take care of the little one, but sometimes they can take it too far.

What would you do if your Aunt was always disciplining your child, even if you were around?

That is what was happening to the young mom in this story, so she finally told her Aunt that if she is there, she needs to leave the parenting to her.

Check it out.

AITH for telling my aunt that if I’m present, she needs to leave the parenting up to me?

My family member has this habit of having hawk eyes on my 4 year old, always telling her what she can/cannot do.

It gets to the point where she doesn’t let my kid be a kid.

That can be very annoying.

She disciplines and hovers over her constantly even when I’m in the same room as my kid.

This happens anywhere.

She visits from out of state so it could be our house, my parent’s house, everywhere and anywhere we take her.

I got fed up.

This is very reasonable.

I told her today that if I’m present, I can handle my own child.

If I’m not here then that’s a different story.

Now I don’t know if I was being harsh.

This is a conversation that often needs to happen from new parents to siblings, grandparents, and others.

Let’s see what the people in the comments say about this situation.

Yes, always stand up for your child.

This person’s parents had to do the same thing.

This is exactly right.

Yup, it is her daughter.

This person says Auntie has boundary issues.

The Aunt needs to stay in her lane.

And she should know better.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.