Babysitting your child
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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.
You can use my belt. They like it.0 -
I don't call it babysitting but IDGAF if other people do. I've never heard it said in a way that made me think the parent considers watching their kid to be a chore or something that's not a normal part of parenting. IMO, "Sorry I can't make it; I'm babysitting" (when talking about their own kids) is the same as "I'm on daddy/mommy duty" "I've got the kids" "I don't have a sitter" etc. If I heard someone saying it all the time in a sh*tty, complaining way, then I'd probably think they have issues, but I don't hang with people I don't like and I don't think I'd like someone like that.0
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Good grief...0
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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:
Turn off your phone, lol. When I manage to escape no one knows when I'll be back. :laugh:
If it's your flesh and blood you are not babysitting.0 -
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:
Turn off your phone, lol. When I manage to escape no one knows when I'll be back. :laugh:
If it's your flesh and blood you are not babysitting.
He got the boot, so I don't have to worry about it anymore. And my kids are older now, so that helps.
He actually demanded that I turn around and come home immediately once. I told him what he could do with himself. 0 -
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.
You can use my belt. They like it.
All right. I have express written consent and several thousand witnesses. Bring them by!0 -
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.
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In my home it's called being a Referee
I so feel the same way!0 -
He actually demanded that I turn around and come home immediately once.
Yes, this has happened to me too....pathetic!0 -
sigh..............................................
some people just are NOT pulling a full load.
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I have no children (by choice) but I know a thing or forty thousand about deadbeat dads (hence, my choice to remain child-free). I know it's a bit of an extreme reaction, but it drives me up the mutha freaking *wall* when I hear a man say he has to "babysit" his children. It's one of my biggest pet peeves.
They didn't spontaneously appear in the cabbage patch one day. The mother is responsible for the children 100% of the time. The father is responsible for the children 100% of the time. One can assume the role for both temporarily by mutual consent. That is all.0 -
Babysitting, Parenting, Training... I don't care what its called. As long as you are positively interacting with your kids you're doing something right. Now, If you're ****ing around while you allow the TV (cable/movies/game systems) to babysit, parent or train you're child(ren), then you're just another sorry *kitten* breeder.0
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Consider yourself lucky. I know a few deadbeat moms. The fathers are more mother & father than the birth mother could EVER be.
Thanks for speaking against the stereotype!0 -
Who cares what someone else calls watching their child? If they want to call it babysitting who are you to get up in their face and tell them they're wrong? Would it be better if they said "No, I can't go grab coffee with you today. I have to parent my child." It's not directly effecting you or your life so . . . .:yawn:0
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Who cares what someone else calls watching their child? If they want to call it babysitting who are you to get up in their face and tell them they're wrong? Would it be better if they said "No, I can't go grab coffee with you today. I have to parent my child." It's not directly effecting you or your life so . . . .:yawn:
You call it babysitting, don't you?0 -
Who cares what someone else calls watching their child? If they want to call it babysitting who are you to get up in their face and tell them they're wrong? Would it be better if they said "No, I can't go grab coffee with you today. I have to parent my child." It's not directly effecting you or your life so . . . .:yawn:
You call it babysitting, don't you?
I don't have any children so on the off chance I am watching one . . . yes. :flowerforyou:
I really couldn't care less if someone else called it baby sitting. But that's just me.0 -
My brother-in-law was complaining about watching his own kids and I was like "they mare your children, your wife is going somewhere and watches them all the time, if you don't want them she could just take them away". Many men pull that crap and say its so hard, yes, yes it is so if it is hard for you, why wouldn't it be hard for your wife? Duh!
The only reason I would ask my husband in advance when I made plans was to make sure he wasn't working or didn't have plans of his own. After all I can't memorize my schedule, his schedule and my daughter's schedule, so had to make sure I wasn't bumping into work, dr appts, etc.
Funniest thing, I am work, DH is home with 8yo daughter because no school. She calls me "mommy can I have a play date" "what where is your daddy" "in his room, well he is home with you, ask him" He of course had no idea she had called me.0 -
It's not babysitting if it's YOUR baby.
THIS! I get SO mad at my MIL when she says my husband is "babysitting" for me. HUGE pet peeve of mine!0 -
Who cares what someone else calls watching their child? If they want to call it babysitting who are you to get up in their face and tell them they're wrong? Would it be better if they said "No, I can't go grab coffee with you today. I have to parent my child." It's not directly effecting you or your life so . . . .:yawn:
Have you tried decaf?0 -
What about when Sesame Street watches them for you?
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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.
This.0 -
Who cares what someone else calls watching their child? If they want to call it babysitting who are you to get up in their face and tell them they're wrong? Would it be better if they said "No, I can't go grab coffee with you today. I have to parent my child." It's not directly effecting you or your life so . . . .:yawn:
Have you tried decaf?
*high five!*0 -
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.
You sir, are Not Right. I like you. :bigsmile:0 -
What about when Sesame Street watches them for you?
If NPH is on then I'm watching too!0 -
Who cares what someone else calls watching their child? If they want to call it babysitting who are you to get up in their face and tell them they're wrong? Would it be better if they said "No, I can't go grab coffee with you today. I have to parent my child." It's not directly effecting you or your life so . . . .:yawn:
Have you tried decaf?
Water would be best. MFP recommends at least 8 cups a day!0 -
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.
You sir, are Not Right. I like you. :bigsmile:
I might not be right, but I'm not wrong either.:flowerforyou:0 -
It's "babysitting".
I work from home and my salary pays all of the bills - if you need me to also be responsible for the kids - I need to know in advance so I can clear my schedule.
It's worked fine through our 3 kids "babysitting" years (and is happily now over).
Although, periodically, she would read something on Facebook and starts complaining about me calling it babysitting. :bigsmile:0 -
^^^THIS! #QFT </thread>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.0 -
No, I've never called it that.
Sometimes when I am making plans or finding out my schedule I will say that I have to make sure my husband can watch the kids or be with the kids or take care of the kids. I never say babysitting for him or me. For me I usually just say that I'm busy with the kids, or I'm with the kids, or I'm watching the kids or that I don't have anyone to watch the kids or that I have no childcare or no babysitter, so I have the kids that day. Or whatever. It's all about context.0 -
My brother-in-law was complaining about watching his own kids and I was like "they mare your children, your wife is going somewhere and watches them all the time, if you don't want them she could just take them away". Many men pull that crap and say its so hard, yes, yes it is so if it is hard for you, why wouldn't it be hard for your wife? Duh!
The only reason I would ask my husband in advance when I made plans was to make sure he wasn't working or didn't have plans of his own. After all I can't memorize my schedule, his schedule and my daughter's schedule, so had to make sure I wasn't bumping into work, dr appts, etc.
Funniest thing, I am work, DH is home with 8yo daughter because no school. She calls me "mommy can I have a play date" "what where is your daddy" "in his room, well he is home with you, ask him" He of course had no idea she had called me.
^^^ we have linked out google calendars to our phones so that we can keep the strange work schedule my husband keeps (24 hour shifts with 48 hours off), the busy schedules of 4 kids and the busy schedule of a working racing mom. I do check in with him before I make plans our of courtesy. but not to make sure he wants to be the parent in charge.0
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