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Husband doesn't want PIL to look after our son at our house...

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1210junglist · 20/01/2017 13:30

I'm going back to work 3 days per week. My husband's parents have agreed to look after our son one day per week - their house is on my way to work, so it's easy to drop him off. My parents live an hour away, but have agreed to do two days per week. They have said they would prefer to come to our house to look after him, saying they don't want DS spending all that time in the car. DH doesn't want this, as he comes home for lunch and finishes at 4.30pm (early starts) - meaning he'd have to see my parents quite a lot. He gets on well with them and loves them, but feels them being in our house is an invasion of his privacy, and that my Mum would do stuff around the house, which he doesn't want. He doesn't have the same close relationship with his family as I do mine, so I don't have a problem with it. Now I'm faced with an awkward decision to offend my parents by telling them they can't look after him here (seems like we don't trust them/they're not welcome) or to make hubby unhappy. I can't look at this objectively, because they're my parents. Is hubby being unreasonable?

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TheMerryWidow1 · 20/01/2017 13:42

He should be on his hands and knees thanking them for helping with the childcare. Does he know how much it would cost him if they didn't help?!!

NickyEds · 20/01/2017 13:42

Yes, your dh is being unbelievably bloody unreasonable! Surely he will take over childcare when he gets home and they can always go home? Two hours and day for a toddler and, presumably 4 hours a day for your parents is ridiculous.

HouseworkIsASin10 · 20/01/2017 13:41

He is being unreasonable. They are helping out in a huge way, he should be very grateful.

If he doesn't want to take them up on their kind offer then he pays for childcare.

As PP, will he be taking over parenting when he gets home at 4.30?

rollonthesummer · 20/01/2017 13:38

He's being an arse and rude. Perhaps he can drive your child to the nursery each morning instead.

Berthatydfil · 20/01/2017 13:36

Presumably he would be happy to pay for the childcare then ?

I think he is being unbelievably selfish.

I assume that as he's home at 4.30 he will be taking over looking after his child or is he expecting them to stay until you come home because looking after his own child isn't his job??

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