to expect Dh to take the kids out without a fuss???!!!

[Nemo2007]

I took DC to a soft play thing last week and they have a weeks pass for free entry so when I came back on thurs I asked DH if he would take just DS and DD1 today as it is his last week home before he returns to a new job. He has done nothing but moan about it since so I told DS yesterday that daddy was taking them so that DH could not back out. Ds is in playgroup and DH should be leaving in 5mins to pick him up with DD1 and go to the soft play and have lunch there etc. He is currently sititng on the couch moaning about how will he cope with both of them etc and I am not even sending DD2 with him!!!

put your fingers in your ears.
(sounds like my DH)

I like your tactic of telling DS about the trip, so that your DH couldn't back out.
Fab!

pmsl DH doesnt know what just hit him, I just got a bag ready stuck coat and shoes on DD and put her in car handed him the keys and said they are all ready see you later..

HC he tried to get out of it before by saying the pass was in my name so he couldnt take them so I phoned the place

mine had to do stuff this w/e as i was carless, but i still had to run around getting eveyrone ready and getting stressed and then critisixed for shouting.

Why does your daily routine dissolve into a crisis when attempted by DH'S?

yesterday, my dp was washing the car with the children. All he had to do was keep half an eye on them.

After finding him in the kitchen, I asked who was looking after the children and he replied "you are" I was somewhat shocked at this, as I was doing laundry, but calmly and rationally, with only a couple of swearwords, I explained that he was watching the children whilst washing the car.

He said he cannot possibly keep an eye on three children (one of them 13) whilst he is washing the car.

Two very unhappy small children.
One very cross me.
One very useless dp - how does he think the rest of the human race manages?

I find that when dh is in charge he is unrivalled at actually playing with the kids, but can't multi-task and - eg put a load of washing on and work backwards in time to figure out that how many hours there are before bed-time, that they will need feeding before then, so what food is in the house etc.
However, it is good practcie for work, where I have found i have to stick to opne point at a time when dealing with men - theri brains do not seem to be wired for parallel processing...

i dunno kookaburra, there are exceptions...

my dh is ubermum (when he is actually at home, which isn't that often)

he can work a 65 hour week then come home and do ds a delicious meal, occupy him with activities I can never get him to do for me, take him out to the park for hours without being asked etc.

In fact I feel pretty marginalised when he is around and ds has made clear his preference for daddeeeeee....

However when he is hungover, there is a total lapse into Cartoon Network and slobbing around in dressing gown.

Men do seem to have trouble multi tasking, i wonder if they would have the same problem at an orgy lol !!!

of course not (at orgy) as it is patently obvious that they are only capable/interested of satisfying themselves!!!

pmsl

He clearly needs a lot more practice at having them both on his own if he is in this much of a tizz at one soft play trip

You know this is a 17 year old thread? 😂

I'm not laughing at you, I revived a year old thread this week, but you win!

I can confirm, leopards dont change their spots!