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[ComeOVeneer]

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"?????

this is huge pet peeve of mine too. there is a really wet mum at my school who always says "my poor husband is babysitting" tonight.

She says this with no irony.

We are not close.

Re OP - YANBU

My DH looks after his DD; he does not babysit - well, not unless there are other children round he is looking after anyway.

I hate that too! I would say DH is at home with DD. It's not babysitting it's being a parent! I check if he will be in, not ask if he can babysit. I have to say something if my friends say it!!

YANBU - that wrecks my head.

I'm not saying that there isn't an underlying inequality in my relationship with DH, just that I don't get het up about the use of the word. It does wind me up considerably that DH will agree to go out and then tell me, sometimes with little or no warning as he assumes that I will be home unless I have previously told him otherwise. Possibly I refer to myself as babysitting to impress on him the fact that he goes out in the evening much more often than I do.