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AIBU to worry about husband using a digger near young children?

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Internationalwomendayheadquarters · 05/05/2026 21:42

We are doing work in the garden. I come home from work at around 6pm. DH says that he wants to do work in the garden and has hired a digger for Thursday. He collects our 3 children at 3:05 and has said he’ll be then working in the garden. Kids are 5, 7 and 10. I’m fuming but he has said he won’t budge and that ‘the job needs to be done’. As I’m not home until 6, that’s nearly three hours of the children playing in the garden while he’s on the machine. He could also do it while they are at school, as he’s not working at the moment. Am I being neurotic?

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Mclaren10 · 05/05/2026 21:47

I think it depends a lot on the kids....can they be trusted to stay inside /away from him. What if they need to get his attention? Is it new to him so he'll be concentrating and not maybe watching out for them? Can the 5 year old sit in the cab with him...again how experienced is he, to be able to work with a child beside him.

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