On this one I'm sure I'm not...

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I can't stand it when people type on threads re dp/dh "babysitting". NO THEY AREN'T THEY ARE LOOKING AFTER THEIR OWN CHILDREN!

Do you ever say "dh is out tonight and I am babysitting"?????

YANBU

Never. Ever. This really annoys me too. My PIL say it all the time and I am forever playing faux innocent and telling them that no one is babysitting.

Agreed. YANBU. Seems a bit silly.

Agreed. YANBU. Seems a bit silly.

My children said it last night when I was going out to a PTA meeting, "OH is daddy babysittting then?" Boy did I put them straight!

It usually is a fat excuse for him to sit on the couch (hence the sitting) watching shitty sky sports and letting his 'babies' do what the hell they like...

When questioned as to why he has let said children run riot, pull the house apart etc, the excuse, 'But they wanted to..'

It is an apt description in the nagapie household... the baby is sitting watching TV, the kids are home alone...

YANBU -you babysit someone else's DCs.

EXACTLY! Yet it amazes me how may people say it when referring to their own dh/dp looking after the children. I also hear it in real life.

"Dh/Dp has the kids" is different, but "babysitting" seems odd

yanbu this really winds me up

Has always pissed me right off annoyed me when peole say this ..err do we babysit our kids when they go out!!

People even..started early on the wine tonight

yaNNNNNNNbu

this is one of my pet peeves. its so beyond stupid.

YANBU

(and fwiw, dp would also think you were NBU)

...it's in the same class as "I did the washing up FOR YOU" with the implication that you SHOULD normally do it and they should get a medal for deigning to do a domestic task, when you both work full time...ARG! Drives me mad.

DH does not refer to looking after his own child as babysitting though, which is why we are still married.

my DH would actually be insulted if I called looking after his own son babysitting. He would be really very insulted!!! Its his child

Oh yeah I did the washing up for you..who made it my washing up ffs

I would like to take this opportunity for my dh's sake to let it be known my dh never says this and would be annoyd about it to!!

YANBU.
I hate this as well.
I say, if I am out, DH is at home because we hae no babysitter.

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I'm not Scottish, really

|I feel the same when someone talks about their OH helping out.

yes completely agree - agree with washing up to

don't do me any fking favours you live here twunt!

is something i might say occasionally

"I feel the same when someone talks about their OH helping out"

NAB exactly. They aren't helping out they are doing what they should do as a parent!

I say it about myself sometimes. If your normal situation is to have at least one other adult in the house then "babysitting" a short way of saying you are stuck at home on your own with a child asleep in his/her bed and therefore unable to leave the house.

Really Bran?! I say I/we have no-one to babysit so can't go out. But I find a large number of women who talk about checking to see if dh/dp can babysit before they can commit to a social event.