uncomfortable for sure, i've had episodes like this w/ my mother, not so much due to encouraging bad habits, just on things we're trying to do differently in our household; but she takes it like i'm criticizing her...

then tension goes away after a while but nothing really gets resolved 😅 same case for you?

Yes definitely a healthy dose of that. With an air of superiority like they know some ancient wisdom lol and then you have to navigate bruised egos. 

Although they’re always shoving screens in the kids’ faces which wasn’t even a thing when they had kids!

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