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To let DD play!?

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over2021 · 30/10/2021 08:22

DH and I have had a blazing row this morning when he came downstairs to find the front room floor covered in toys and promptly started trying to tidy them up whilst DD (5 YO) was still playing with them Angry

DD loves Barbies so we had various Barbies, clothes, shoes, cars, vets surgery etc set up and she'd been playing independently for a good 45 minutes before he got up whilst I lazed on the sofa drinking tea, no dramas...

He gets up, comes in and just starts picking stuff up and putting back in random boxes. DD starts crying because she's in the middle of some form of vet surgery/shoe shopping/Fashion show and he just carries on. I ask him to stop and he tells me he's fed up with her 'trashing the house'Envy I tell him I'm fed up with him stopping her from playing; in his ideal world she would sit still on the sofa watching telly in a tidy room. We have two reception rooms and a kitchen table so it's easy to sit somewhere else if it really bothers him. When DD had finished playing it would have taken 10 mins max to tidy up properly and put everything away.

We're now not talking which has set the tone for another fan-fucking-tastic weekend Hmm

AIBU to ask him to F off for the weekend so we can relax in our own home and DD can play like a normal kid!?

OP posts:
FangsForTheMemory · 30/10/2021 17:18

I was just going to ask how much time he spends with her and then saw your comment 'he's generally not a great dad'. He obviously doesn't understand how kids play. I'd be telling him to get his act together.

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