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  1. 01-14-2006, 11:13 PM #1
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    Question Babysitting or taking care of kids?

    Do you call it babysitting or taking care of the kids when your dh/so is watching them when you've gone out.
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  2. 01-14-2006, 11:32 PM #2
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    Oh this is a sore spot with me. .. it's definately watching the kids-- not babysitting.

    They are his kids too- and I certainly don't say I'm babysitting when I have them.

    I'll shut up now, before I offend someone.
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  3. 01-15-2006, 07:19 AM #3
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    Originally posted by sunshine
    Oh this is a sore spot with me. .. it's definately watching the kids-- not babysitting.

    They are his kids too- and I certainly don't say I'm babysitting when I have them.

    I'll shut up now, before I offend someone.
    I totally agree.
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  4. 01-15-2006, 07:24 AM #4
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    Watching the kids, other people baby-sit but with my husband since they are his kids he is watching them.

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  5. 01-15-2006, 09:08 AM #5
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    I call it nothing but being a father. I'm always shocked when I go somewhere w/out the kids and people say "Who's watching the kids?" and I respond "their Dad" and they say "Oh! Think everyone will be okay?" He's their father for crying out loud! He's more than capable of taking care of them! Someone asked the other day if my Mom was going to come stay at the house when I was in the hospital. Ooh, was Rob pi$$ed. "Like I can't take care of my own kids?" Although, I do realize that I'm very lucky. He's an extremely hands-on-Dad.
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    I call it staying home with our daughter.
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    I agree w/ the above posters.
    Their his kids too, he can't babysit his own kids. Babysitting indicates that the job will eventually end
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    We refer to it as quality time with daddy.
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    This is a sore spot with me too. It is simply parenting. It goes without saying when they are your children that you will watch them.
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    Never really thought about it, but I think of babysitting as a non family member whom I have to pay afterwards.
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    I agree with all of you.........he is their Father and is as capable of taking care of them as I am!! He is being the Dad!!
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    Very sore spot with DH, I call it watching our kids, while he thinks of it as babysitting HIS kids... I do not understand where his mentality has come from on some issues... It is a given people "watch" their own kids, not babysit them...
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    Umm, he is a parent to them also so he is not babysitting or jsut watching "the" kids, he is parenting his children just the same as I(as the mom) do(does).

    Funny, my dparents call the boys comming over because they want them for "company" for dnephew, well that is babysitting to them. Not really though, being they want them and babysitting would also include Sarah and it does not.
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