It’s frustrating when family refuses to respect your child’s health needs.

What would you do if your mother-in-law knowingly gave your child food that could trigger their medical issues, even after being reminded not to?

Would you quietly address the situation?

Or would you confront her head-on to make sure it never happens again?

In the following story, one mother deals with this exact scenario and opts for the latter.

Here’s what happened.

AITAH for snapping at my mother in law for feeding my kid stuff that goes against his diet?

So yeah, I’m kinda losing it right now. My son has food issues. Like, real ones.

He’s 6, and after months of tests and doctor visits, he was put on a strict diet.

No dairy, no refined sugar, low sodium. Nothing extreme or trendy, just what his pediatrician and dietitian agreed on.

We’ve seen big improvements since we started it.

Now here’s the thing. My MIL has always thought I’m “too controlling” when it comes to food. She thinks I’m just being dramatic, like I’m depriving her grandson of something.

I brushed off the comments at first. Like whatever, boomers don’t get food sensitivity.

Within a matter of minutes, she gave him forbidden food.

But last week, we went over to her house for dinner, and I packed my son’s food in a container like I always do.

I told her again nicely that he can’t eat what she’s making. And she smiled and nodded like everything was cool.

I left the room to take a call. Came back, and there’s my son with chocolate cake smeared on his face.

Store bought. Frosting and all.

I froze.

I asked him where he got it, and he said, “Grandma gave it to me.”

Angry, she went off on her mother-in-law.

I. Lost. It. I asked her why she’d do that when she knows he’s not allowed.

And she literally rolled her eyes and said, “It’s just one slice. He’s a kid. Let him live a little.” Then she added, “You’re not his doctor, stop acting like one.”

I said, “I don’t have to be his doctor to follow basic health advice. You’re putting his progress at risk just because you think you know better.”

She said I was being disrespectful in her house.

My husband tried to get in the middle, but he just made it worse, saying I should’ve “handled it better.”

Now, the woman is going behind her back and talking badly.

Like, I’m supposed to calmly explain for the hundredth time why sugar gives my kid stomach cramps and mood swings?

I left. Took our son and walked out.

She hasn’t apologized. In fact, she told my husband that I’m “keeping her from her grandson” and that “this is what happens when you marry someone who thinks they know everything.”

I feel like I’m going insane. I’m literally just trying to protect my kid.

And somehow I’m the villain for not letting his grandma feed him junk that hurts him?

So yeah. I told her off. Loudly. In front of everyone.

I don’t even feel that bad… but then again, maybe I could’ve been calmer?

AITA?

Wow! That lady sounds like something else.

Let’s see how the folks over at Reddit feel about what happened.

This person suggests that her husband is the real problem.

Yet another reader who believes the husband is the issue.

Here’s a great way to handle it.

This is harsh but very true.

She did the right thing. No one, especially a family member, should be putting her son’s health in danger.

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