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#1 ·
My mother-in-law has this gesture she makes with my two-year-old. She draws her fingernail across my child’s throat in much the same way as the international sign for a beheading. She’s not pulling her finger across her own throat, but my toddler’s.

Am I alone or is that gesture just a little creepy?
 
#5 ·
OMG.... Yes, this is eerie, weird, strange... I would be asking her why she feels the need to do that.... I do not like that at all.
 
#11 ·
One day my son (just 5) hurt his finger and was whining about it. I told him not to worry for him to come over and I would take his finger off and then run to the store to buy him a new one. He came running over, but once he saw me take out string and I told him the following, "OK, let me tie this around your finger, and I am going to run a very long piece outside and tie the other end to your grandma's luggage before she flies back to her country. When she leaves on the jet, it will yank really hard and your finger will POP right off and then by then I'll be back from the store with a new one!"

Well I watched him think through things, he yanked his hand away, and told me his finger was OK. He stopping whining about the little scratch he had and said it would be OK.

Sometimes you just have to scare kids a little to make them behave! In your case I think your mother-in-law is just being playful, or perhaps they were playing pirates or something.
 
#17 ·
badsanta, I can't figure out if I should laugh or be appalled. But, then I recall your brother used to sit on you & fart in your face. Some interesting family dynamics in your neck of the woods.

OP, simply ask your MIL what that gesture means as you're not familiar with it when applied to a child. Your wife probably knows.
 
#19 ·
How old is your child? Ask him what he thinks it means. You might find out what's going on that way.

My ex-MIL did some stuff that was odd. I talked to my son, then 3 - 4. It turned out that what she was doing bothered her. So I talked to him about things he could say to her to stand up for himself.
 
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