I’m sick of my mother commenting on my daughter’s appearance - but she gets offended when I broach it... A reader asks The Midults for help Dear A&E, I’m sick of my mother commenting on my daughter’s appearance.
It’s meant with love, but my daughter is 12, and I’m worried it’s going to make her body conscious. Last week, she looked in the mirror and pinched her ‘puppy fat’, a phrase I know she’s got from my mother, who did this to me for years.
When I gently and calmly tried to explain my concerns, my mother said I was ‘picking on’ her and told the rest of the family I’d upset her.
I’d keep a wide berth, but now the three of us are locked down together (my mother has lived with us since my partner and I split), I’m not sure what to do. Lo