Man Kicks Mother-in-Law Out of Her Own House After Toddler Burns Hand on the Stove

A man kicked his mother-in-law out of her own house after his 2-year-old child burned himself on a gas stove while she was supposed to be watching over him.

In a post shared to Reddit, the man writes that he, his wife and their two toddlers (ages 2 and 4) all live with his wife’s mother.

"Two days a week, we don’t have daycare, and we rely on [my mother-in-law] to do most of the child-minding, for which we’re very grateful. There haven’t been any major concerns with this arrangement for the last 2 years until this incident," he writes.

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But while he was working remotely from an upstairs office, he heard the 2-year-old "screaming in pain," and his wife's mother asking, “where’s the hurt? Where’s the owie?”

Once downstairs, he could see that his mother-in-law had placed the toddlers' step-ladder "against the cooktop of the kitchen bench, within toddler reach of the gas hobs."

The toddler had burned himself, he realized.

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After he moved the 4-year-old child to safety, his mother-in-law then applied burn cream on the younger child's burn.

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"I later find out this burn cream contains a highly toxic ingredient that CANNOT be orally ingested, it accounts for a large percentage of yearly poisonings in our state and is not for use in young children liable to lick at the cream," the man writes in his post.

Rather than soothing the children, the man's mother-in-law asked: “why did he touch it?”, telling the child, “you’re just like your uncle.”

That's when the man told her, "Get out."

"She gasps and replies 'don’t you talk to me like that!' " the man writes, to which he responded, “Don’t you put my child next to a scalding hot stovetop… you didn’t even know where he’d been hurt, you weren’t even watching him! Get out!”

"My fury was obvious, but no swears. MIL struck an angry hand to my back and stormed out wordlessly, slamming the door," he writes, adding that the two have since not spoken to one another.

After urging from his wife, the man offered an olive branch, sending her a note saying he was grateful to her and apologizing for his words. But he has yet to receive a reply, and now wonders if he went too far.

Many Reddit commenters are urging the man to "move out" of his mother-in-law's home or, at the very least, hire a sitter to watch the kids.

Writes one commenter: "MIL is not a trained childcare provider. She applied the same methods she used to raise her own kids decades ago. She did the best she could and it's not good enough for you. That's ok. Make nice because she has been doing a lot to help helping you, and hire a babysitter you are more comfortable with. Let grandma be just a grandma."

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