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Maybe it's just in the south, but what's up with Fathers who refer to spending time and or watching the children when Mom's not at home as "babysitting"????? It's called raising your children morons. I work with a guy who goes on and on about having to "babysit" his kids so his SAHM wife can go get her haircut or go the the grocery store without the kids.
This is the same guy (3kids) who regularly misses ball games that fall on "His night out" or "his ball game night".
Mom on the other hand is there for everything and has a part time business at home.
Maybe its just me, but I'd like to hit him with a frying pan or rolling pin.
I'll slip and refer to it as babysitting at times, but it's not meant as a complaint. Just as a statement of what I'm doing, as opposed to work or shopping or something. Or, "I need the day off because dw is going downstate so I'll be babysitting ds." It's not technically correct, but I don't think it's usually offensive.
I'll slip and refer to it as babysitting at times, but it's not meant as a complaint. Just as a statement of what I'm doing, as opposed to work or shopping or something. Or, "I need the day off because dw is going downstate so I'll be babysitting ds." It's not technically correct, but I don't think it's usually offensive.
No, not offensive when only used occasionally and in a non-complaining tone. I think what is getting to the posters are fathers who complain about having to "babysit."
Luckily, I have never had to deal with it. My husband says he is watching the kids on a certain day, that it is a "daddy day," or simply that he has the kids that day.
Babysitting is likely a term used by fathers who have a limited role in raising their children. Now, whether the father's limited involvement is his choice or his wife's choice, that's up to them. If that arrangement works for them and both parents are happy, I say let it be.
I'm very fortunate in the sense that parenting and the will to do it came naturally to my husband and I never have to ask or beg him to be with the kids if I need to go somewhere kid-free. My husband and I have true partnership in the marital and parental areas. It's been that way since day one long before we had our kids. Housework was shared, cooking was shared, we both worked FT except for when I quit work to go to college FT and when I was home with our first daughter FT for 3 yrs. Even then, just because I wasn't working, my husband's involvement in household matters didn't lessen.
Some of my acquaintences have told me to my face that I'm spoiled. I don't think I am. If I did NOTHING and my husband did EVERYTHING, then I might be spoiled.
Maybe it's just in the south, but what's up with Fathers who refer to spending time and or watching the children when Mom's not at home as "babysitting"????? It's called raising your children morons. I work with a guy who goes on and on about having to "babysit" his kids so his SAHM wife can go get her haircut or go the the grocery store without the kids.
This is the same guy (3kids) who regularly misses ball games that fall on "His night out" or "his ball game night".
Mom on the other hand is there for everything and has a part time business at home.
Maybe its just me, but I'd like to hit him with a frying pan or rolling pin.
I'm from Cali and we call it 'Watching the Kids' here. Nothing big, my husband gets them ready for school as does a coworked of mine with his kids. I think its a shame to call it babysitting. Does he expect to get paid as well?
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