Originally Posted by hope:
I don't mind so much if the parent does it once in a blue moon and is honest about it. But I have one mom who always has to tell me that she loves spending time with her kids and she never uses a babysitter and she can't stand how other parents do things without their children. Yet every storm and holiday she is trying to get me to watch her child! She claims she needs to spend time with her other child or needs to get things done. I'm a parent too and I understand that she needs this but I don't need the whole show that goes along to cover her quilt.
I have a parent like this too. She has three kids. And she can't even manage to go to the gas station with her kids. She constantly wants to stop and run errands at midnight in the way home from work because she doesn't want to take he kids. I tell her " I'm sorry, but if I can take 7 kids everywhere with me, you can take three"
Of course, I don't mind the occasional thing or something like a dr appointment etc. I don't get down time but I understand the need for it. But. If you CHOOSE to have three kids, you should learn to stop and get a loaf of bread with three kids ya no??
I took six additional kids to my daughters basketball practice last night. And I had five additional kids at my daughters and sins basketball games every Saturday.. I get it. I do. But I do contracted hours for a reason.