Comments on: 10 Reasons Fathers CAN Be Referred to as Babysitters

By: anon

anon — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:38:18 +0000

“So-and-so likes her hot-dogs peeled and cut into ½ inch think semicircles.”

Maybe you shouldn’t raise your kid to be needy. Does it really make your husband a bad man if he doesn’t cater to your child’s every request? I’d say he’s probably doing a better job raising her to survive the real world. Her boss isn’t going to care if she likes her work day split into 4 hour segments and coated with jellybeans.

Speaking of bosses, do you have one? Probably not, since you’re at home raising your baby all day. He could argue that you get to sit on a sofa and play with a baby all day while he pays your mortgage, and stocks your kitchen.

By: Momma Jorje

Momma Jorje — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:06:31 +0000

A-fricking-men.

By: Renita

Renita — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:24:23 +0000

Ha! Well said! I couldn’t agree more. I leave my son with my husband every Thursday night when I go out to yoga and expect a sink full of dirty dishes, the good night bottle by the rocker, and general disarray. But he does a good job and I’m thankful. We just have to remember that they are not us and don’t do things like us, or as good as us! ;)

By: Brittnee

Brittnee — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:54:55 +0000

My husband is an AWESOME dad, but that being said, when I was in the hospital after having my 3rd baby, hubby was home with the older 2… When I got home (after only being in the hospital 25 hrs) I asked what the kids ate, I got a, “ummmm…. well, they had those brownies you made for breakfast and lunch, and I grabbed some McD’s for dinner!” HA! I’m glad they had fun and the house was clean-ish so no one was killed when I got home!!! :) :)

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:38:21 +0000

Awesome. Exactly EXACTLY what I have to deal with. Thanks for adding some humor to a situation that normally makes me cry.

By: DizzyMamaLizzy

DizzyMamaLizzy — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:40:35 +0000

this is the BEST thing I have read all day. My brother is an expectant dad and I have had to have him watch my daughter on occasion recently. When I came home from work, he informed me that he changed the first poopy diaper he had changed in 20 years on my little girl. It was one of “those” that went up and all around, and she had taken off the diaper herself in her crib. hahahaha

By: Lissy22

Lissy22 — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:29:13 +0000

This is a hilarious list. It peaked my interest cause the other day, I asked my sister-in-law if she was bringing the kids shopping, and she responded, “Nope, my husband is babysitting.”
What sort of father babysits? Seriously? Thank GOD her little brother (my husband) knows how this fatherhood things works.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:36:37 +0000

The various comments on “babysitting” dads are very funny and made me chuckle. I can’t help but think that dads have made great progress over the years as I recall the first time I left my eldest daughter with my father to babysit. It was 1975 and when I returned from my night out I discovered my father had sewed my daughter’s diaper on as he couldn’t figure out how to use the sticky tabs. I wouldn’t have minded only he used black thread (he couldn’t find the white thread). The bigger surprise was when he informed me that it was the first time he had changed a diaper. Believe it or not I was the baby of the family and his tenth child. So there is hope for the future generation of dads.

By: DizzyMamaLizzy

DizzyMamaLizzy — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:43:36 +0000

Lighten up ladies, read it with the lighthearted humor with which it was written. I am totally with you Scary Mommy!! And I love my babysitter husband!!

By: Jaime

Jaime — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 03:47:07 +0000

But my husband is wonderful!