Hi all,

I had a wonderful r'ship with my mother but things have always been great if they were "her way" - so the first few years of my marriage and my young childrens lives was very painful with lots of tears if I tried to do things the way I wanted. Me being a new mum back then was incredibly difficult but I've now developed, thankfully, a much thicker skin. Now its if you don't like it mum, sorry but that's your problem.

I visit her once a week with the children after scheduled tutoring, we stay for about 2.5 hrs and the kids really enjoy their time - I'm very happy for them, esp as I never had grandparents growing up. Now to cut a long story short, my mum in between jokes and sarcasm, threatens me that if I don't let her see the kids, she can take me to court, and she talks about her "rights" as a grandparent. Think Marie from Everybody loves Raymond I really hate it this r'ship has deteriorated, but she just won't let go

She is doing the emotional blackmail thing with me, but it really makes me resent her - today she made an ultimatum that she wants to look after the kids once a week so I said their tutoring day is a good day, after tutoring (finishes at 11am) you can take them until 5pm. So I don't know if this belongs in the boohoo room but my question does she have legal rights if she were to follow through with what she says?