Polish mother-in-law likes:

- when you call her 'Mum', additional points for 'Mummy'
- when you take your shoes off in her flat and put on slippers (the comfortable ones that granddad used to wear)
- when you don't put off 'wedlock'
- elegant clothes on a Sunday dinner
- compliments – especially those about her cooking talents    
- second helpings, second helpings, second helpings (don't try to say you're full already)
- three cheek kisses
- when you dress her grandchildren in T-shirts that read „I love Grandma”
- when you are interested to see the photos from her family album and listen to how, one day, Zosia...
- when you don't contradict the validity of cause-this-is-part-of-Polish-tradition argument.
- when you appreciate her experience and invaluable knowledge on … any possible topic

but what she likes most to...

- understand what people actually say in her company. There's no other way. Want to have the mother-in-law on your side? Speak Polish!