September 12, 2025 at 7:55 am

Her Mom Won’t Stop Interfering With How She Raises Her Kids, So She Finally Told Her To Stay Out Of It

by Matthew Gilligan

mother lecturing adult daughter

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Some grandparents just can’t seem to help themselves

They have to comment, interfere, and generally make the lives of their kids and grandkids uncomfortable.

That’s what this woman has been dealing with and she finally snapped on her mom and put her in her place.

Did she go too far?

Let’s see what’s going on here…

AITA for telling my mom she’s not my kids’ mom?

“I 28f and my husband 30m have two kids. 7m and 4f.

My mother is actually a great grandmother. She loves the kids and is very helpful but she has this habit overstepping.

Both our kids do chores. We give them things to do that they’re capable of doing. Like my son does the dishes sometimes after dinner. My daughter will help set and clean up the table afterwards.

Those kinds of things.

That’s odd…

My mom came to visit us recently and I’ve been noticing she’s being doing this thing. She stops my son from whatever chore he’s doing and does it for him but if she sees my daughter doing something she won’t.

At first I thought she just didn’t want her grandkids to do work because she often calls me a cold mother for making them do chores but then I figured out the pattern and it rubbed me the wrong way because I remembered she used to do the same thing to me.

My brothers would do nothing while I did everything so I started correcting her and making my son finish his chores himself which made her really agitated. Yesterday we were having dinner and my daughter and husband were clearing up the table because it was my son’s turn to do the dishes.

It was time to put an end to this.

She tried stopping him but I told him to the dishes and took her outside.

She told me I’m so cold for making my son wash dishes and why couldn’t I do it, I explained to her that we like to split chores evenly in the house and if he’s capable he should(it was like 5 plates and cups and a few spoons).

She kept going and she called me lazy (something she would often do whenever I asked my brothers to help me out with chores).

Here’s where I may be an *******.

She let her have it.

I told her ‘she’s one to talk after making me clean up after everybody my whole life’ . I told her I’m not going to enable my son to be ******* losers like her sons.

My little brother literally had to be spoon fed until he was ten because he refused to eat if my mom didn’t feed him. I was apparently bad to my son by making him do all these chores.

I told her ‘I’m teaching him to be independent and that she may have raised two boys but she’s not my kids mom so she should **** off when I’m trying not turn my son into an incompetent *******.’

She left crying. My dad called and told me she’s moping around. My husband says it was deserved but he really doesn’t like my mother because he’s seen over the years how she treats me compared to how she treats my brothers.

Did I go too far?”

Reddit users shared their thoughts.

This person chimed in.

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Another reader spoke up.

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This Reddit user said she’s NTA.

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She finally reached her breaking point with Mommy Dearest!

Some moms just can’t let go.

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