Babysitting your child

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  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
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    I just wrote a friend that I couldn't make plans because I was "babysitting all day Saturday & overnight." That includes my son, but three other kids as well, so....


    It was the easiest term I could think of.


    Kinda like twerking.
  • LePetitCochon
    LePetitCochon Posts: 284
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    I know a few deadbeat dads that consider it babysitting.

    I'm sure there are deadbeat moms out there too!

    Oh there are plenty of them!! I just don't know any personally.....

    Consider yourself lucky. I know a few deadbeat moms. The fathers are more mother & father than the birth mother could EVER be.
  • LePetitCochon
    LePetitCochon Posts: 284
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    Kinda like twerking.

    GTFO!
  • fionarama
    fionarama Posts: 788 Member
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    it drives me crazy when people call looking after their own kids babysitting. Its not babysitting! Its like, existing!!! when you're a parent its what you do!

    its a bit like calling parenting a job. not a job.
  • MiloBloom83
    MiloBloom83 Posts: 2,724 Member
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    "i takes care of my kids!"

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    I ain't never been to jail...
  • Naomi0504
    Naomi0504 Posts: 964 Member
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    I don't consider it babysitting ... but my husband does when I dare to leave the house without them. :grumble:

    Thank you, girl! This is my husband too. He works and "all I do is stay at home" so yes, he considers it "watching" them. Not that he doesn't love being with them, but it is work :-)
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
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    Kinda like twerking.

    GTFO!

    Make me.

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  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
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    Watching kids at the playground from a panel van is called pedophilia.

    Cliff does this

    NO! I am just curious!!:angry:
  • oberon0124
    oberon0124 Posts: 10,527 Member
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    It is parenting, a privledge and honor! That is your flesh and blood! No babysitting there!
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
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    ....Also if they are my kids it's babysitting.
    If it's your kids well let's just say....Jesus juice anyone?
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
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    "i takes care of my kids!"

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    I ain't never been to jail...

    whatchu want a cookie? you're not supposed to go to jail you low-expectation havin' blankity blank
  • danasings
    danasings Posts: 8,218 Member
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    think outside of the box, people! :grumble:

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    Who told you about my parenting methods?!?!
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
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    Yes. I never felt the need to arrange for my husband to "watch" my daughter if I had plans/things to do. I'm leaving the house. He's there, she's there. End.

    Is this like a real thing??? I'd leave my kids with my husband, and he'd call me 15 minutes later asking when I was coming home. :huh:
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
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    think outside of the box, people! :grumble:

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    I can't stop watching!
  • kelsully
    kelsully Posts: 1,008 Member
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    Do you consider watching your own child babysitting? Isn't it just "parenting"?


    I consider it parenting.
    I do understand that when a person is asked to do more than they are usually asked to do it can feel like babysitting. I can also see if a man calls it babysitting because he is treated like a babysitter...you know given schedules and rules etc like he is an idiot who doesn't know how to care for his own kids...
  • Cre8veLifeR
    Cre8veLifeR Posts: 1,062 Member
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    parenting.

    babysitting is when I get to give them back.
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member
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    Watching your own kids is called parenting.

    Watching your friend's kids is called baby sitting.

    Watching kids at the playground from a panel van is called pedophilia.

    Now if I am just watching them from the van for the purposes of establshing a pattern for abduction and holding for ransom, and I have no sexual intent, it is not pedophilia.
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member
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    Yes. I never felt the need to arrange for my husband to "watch" my daughter if I had plans/things to do. I'm leaving the house. He's there, she's there. End.

    Is this like a real thing??? I'd leave my kids with my husband, and he'd call me 15 minutes later asking when I was coming home. :huh:

    Just drop the kids with me. I'll watch them. They do chores right?
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
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    Yes. I never felt the need to arrange for my husband to "watch" my daughter if I had plans/things to do. I'm leaving the house. He's there, she's there. End.

    Is this like a real thing??? I'd leave my kids with my husband, and he'd call me 15 minutes later asking when I was coming home. :huh:

    Just drop the kids with me. I'll watch them. They do chores right?

    Uuuh, yeah, sure they do!
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member
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    Yes. I never felt the need to arrange for my husband to "watch" my daughter if I had plans/things to do. I'm leaving the house. He's there, she's there. End.

    Is this like a real thing??? I'd leave my kids with my husband, and he'd call me 15 minutes later asking when I was coming home. :huh:

    Just drop the kids with me. I'll watch them. They do chores right?

    Uuuh, yeah, sure they do!

    You're not sonding very convincing. I babysit for slave labor. I don't have time to train them.

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