u/sraydenk

It’s always been a thing to take your kids to a nicer area if you can. Like I’m in my 40’s and we trick or treated by my house, and then went to the nicer area to get the full sized bar. It’s not a new thing. 

Yeah, kiddo is 7 and we pulled back the last two months. Not because I don’t think reading is important. It’s been a difficult year. I’m a teacher in my kids district. The district had a bad financial year last year and cut some positions. This year they are down to bare bones resources and there is a chance more cuts will happen this year. I’m low in seniority and everyone at work is stressed. 

Add in youth sports and by 7 pm when we are done for the day I’m beat. I’ve prioritized reading again, but some days I really really want to skip it. 

But it’s ok to assume the worst of the dad here?

I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy. 

I don’t know why I never thought to follow Raffi. I’m about 90% sure I like his music more than my kid. 

Your parents a decide they don’t want to watch an infant and you would have to accept it. 

My husbands older siblings had kids young, and we didn’t have kids until he was almost 40. By then his nieces and nephews were adults and my MIL had already watched multiple grandkids and was ready for a break. She watched our kid occasionally but nowhere near as often as she did for my husbands siblings. We never complained because we weren’t entitled to help.  

I teach high school. No kid is peeing their pants. If it’s an emergency we figure it out. At the same time it’s perfectly reasonable for kids to wait a bit to go to the bathroom (excluding medical issues).