u/Fun_Positive_3505

FTM here. My MIL is gracious enough to keep my baby girl while we work during the week. She called my husband today and told him our daughter doesn’t listen, and that he and his brother were “never like that” so it must be us not disciplining her at home. I’m not exactly sure how to discipline a 16 month old… can they even really understand? We tell her “no” and redirect when she does something bad, but I’m not sure what else to do. To me, it’s just a toddler doing toddler things. But I want to be the best mom I can be, and MIL is already doing us a MAJOR major favor keeping her, so I want to make her life easier. And not gonna lie, that kinda made me sad and really got me in my head that she feels we aren’t doing good enough at home. Idk. Any ideas / thoughts on this…?

FTM here. My MIL is gracious enough to keep my baby girl while we work during the week. She called my husband today and told him our daughter doesn’t listen, and that he and his brother were “never like that” so it must be us not disciplining her at home. I’m not exactly sure how to discipline a 16 month old… can they even really understand? We tell her “no” and redirect when she does something bad, but I’m not sure what else to do. To me, it’s just a toddler doing toddler things. But I want to be the best mom I can be, and MIL is already doing us a MAJOR major favor keeping her, so I want to make her life easier. And not gonna lie, that kinda made me sad and really got me in my head that she feels we aren’t doing good enough at home. Idk. Any ideas / thoughts on this…?

FTM here. My MIL is gracious enough to keep my baby girl while we work during the week. She called my husband today and told him our daughter doesn’t listen, and that he and his brother were “never like that” so it must be us not disciplining her at home. I’m not exactly sure how to discipline a 16 month old… can they even really understand? We tell her “no” and redirect when she does something bad, but I’m not sure what else to do. To me, it’s just a toddler doing toddler things. But I want to be the best mom I can be, and MIL is already doing us a MAJOR major favor keeping her, so I want to make her life easier. And not gonna lie, that kinda made me sad and really got me in my head that she feels we aren’t doing good enough at home. Idk. Any ideas / thoughts on this…?