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I’ve heard it from a lot of my lady friends when we’re chatting about trying to setup a night out on the town or even a coffee date: “I gotta see if my husband can babysit.” I think to myself, do you pay your husband to babysit? Do you have to be home by 10 because husband has to work the next day? Do you leave a list of emergency numbers? To hear women say they have to ask their husbands to babysit just doesn’t make sense to me. Or to The Otis. We’ve never considered spending time with our children to be babysitting. And when Otis is with the kids and someone asks him if he’s babysitting his kids, he is highly offended. I feel a little sad for some of my friends, who sit home while their husbands go to poker nights or the bar and then, when they want to do something fun themselves, have to ask if their guy is willing to watch his own kids — Mommy Dearest/BrodH20.
Question (for wives): Do you have to force your husband to “baby-sit” your kids? Or (for husbands): Does your wife have to force you to “baby-sit” your kids?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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