Dear Queenie,
My mother always wants to be the centre of attention and gets mad if she thinks everybody is not focusing on her. Then she throws a fit and accuses everyone of ignoring her.
We have tried to protect our children from her behaviour while being careful not to influence them against her.
Now she has taken to posting blogs on the Internet criticizing her family, including our children and their cousins.
Queenie, the adults are used to her behaviour and can ignore all this, but what if the children see it?—Worried mother
Dear Mother,
Try to explain to your children that their grandmother has always been like this, which is why you have had so little to do with her. Also explain to them that she does not seem capable of seeing things from any point of view but her own and this makes her very self-centred and sometimes very unkind.
Hopefully your children will never see their grandmother’s Internet blogs, but if they do, you will have prepared them for what they will see and hopefully to be able to ignore it.
