To have DH take DD to the party?

[ShanahansRevenge]

Accordin to my sister "Taking the DCs to their friends parties is a Mothers job."



Is that true? I do most of the party runs...but the house is a mess and little DD is under the weather...as am I....so DH said he was happy to do it.

Does your DH or DP ever take the kids to parties?

My DD is 6 and a little bit insecure at parties...she tends to be a bit clingy for the first half an hour and then settles in...the party is in the friends home...and the Mum said it was fine for my DH to stay on if Dd needed him to....is it wrong?

[CMOTdibbler]

DH ans I pretty much take it in turns.

[CeliaChristmasFate]

Absolutely not wrong, it's fine! It's a parent's job to take their children to parties, there's no issue with it that I can see.

[ShanahansRevenge]

Oh good! I had a paranoia there for a mo. I know SOME Dad's at DDs school never do it....but they're always at work.

[Slobbadan]

Nope we both do it, i will take them if dp is working as he dose on a saturday but like last weekend dp took DD and picked her up.

[JustAnother]

we both do it.

[verytellytubby]

Whoever is the least hungover takes them

[nannynobblystockingnobs]

DH does it because he drives! The parties are usually at one of the two soft play centres in town and both are a fair distance, one of them on a busy roundabout.

[rainbowinthesky]

Bit of an old fashioned question surely. I'm amazed you need to consider this.

[JeezyPeeps]

Gosh, at the most recent party that I hosted (it was an xbox gamers party.. so only three children invited so that all 4 could play at the same time), all three parents that turned up to collect the boys were the dad.

It didn't once strike me as odd or unusual that it wasn't the mum.

Fair enough, different families arrange things differently to suit their own circumstances, and I know some mothers that always do the party trips - but why shouldn't it be shared?

What an odd attitude!

[ShanahansRevenge]

Well thank you for sharing your amazement Rainbow.

[jessiealbright]

Why? Does the children's friends have doors with biometric vagina sensors attached?

[jessiealbright]

Do Sorry

[ChaoticChristmasAngelCrackers]

What SGM said

[rainbowinthesky]

Surely you can't blame me for being amazed thjat you are asking if it is wrong for a dad to take a child to a party? I think we both must live in very different worlds

[ShanahansRevenge]

I think we probably do Rainbow.

[gerontius]

What, so you really don't know already?

[Lonnie]

Dh does about 90% of them as I work many weekends and most parties are at weekends.


BTW is there a "rule book" on what fathers does and what mothers does> as no one ever gave me one..

[pongonperdy]

My dh and dd are at a party as we speak.

[FrostyAndSlippery]

WTF? What a bizarre thing to think. Why wouldn't a dad do it?! YANBU obviously