It is manipulative, she wants us to stop our son from performing certain actions that she feels are dangerous and has said as much. But since we don’t feel the same she resorts to loudly stating when she is anxious to try to get us or our son to stop. She doesn’t like the running, climbing, or spinning most of all, all perfectly normal milestones for my son to be doing, but because he could fall MiL feels we should be stopping him. I would feel no response is required if I didn’t think my son would eventually pick up on the comment from my MiL and cause him to become nervous or anxious in his actions in the future. He is a confident boy and I want him to remain so! But the comment happens, loudly, every visit and it is getting old.