"I was babysitting my daughter all weekend"

[skygazer]

This was said to me by one of my salesmen this morning, a married guy whose wife is going to nursing school.

I said, "Excuse me?"

Him: "I was babysitting my daughter."

Me: "Babysitting? You were getting paid?"

Him: (somewhat confused) "No, I wish I was."

So I finally explained, as nicely as I could, that this was HIS KID! You don't babysit your own kid - you babysit someone else's. He was being a parent, for crying out loud!

Major pet peeve for me. I've been a mother for 26 years and I have NEVER referred to what I do as babysitting.


Luckily, he realized I was right. He's a nice guy, just unimaginative.

[Crazy Dave]

1. With my ex....

..."our kids" were always "your kids" (mine) whenever they got into trouble or whenever she wanted to get drunk and not be responsible for anything.

[Divameow77]

2. I have heard fathers refer to that before

and it pisses me off too.
I have responded "So you were taking care of your parental responsibility?"

[Crazy Dave]

3. I've heard a woman say...

"No I can't go anywhere this weekend because it's not his week to have the fucking kids"

[Divameow77]

4. Wow

nice mom...

[Crazy Dave]

6. Yeah...ladies night or where ever she wanted to go...

...was her top priority that weekend. It was a phone conversation of a coworker I overheard. She wasn't being sarcastic either with whoever was on the other end, she was pissed.

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[liontamer]

9. eh, I can see that

I stick the f word into every other sentence, it doesn't mean she doesn't love her children.

[Crazy Dave]

7. Yoiks....skygazer....what have we done?

Our threads are gone?

[skygazer]

8. Oh no! Our beautiful kitty!