As a dad that works nights and looks after my daughter by day, I couldn't agree more

SigmundFloyd76 · 2015-03-30T21:19:42+00:00

No kidding. I get this often too.

"Babysittin', are you?"

"No actually I pay money to get to do this"

DoItLive247 · 2015-03-30T23:28:49+00:00

A lot of it stems from the single mothers who gave their ex husbands the ”privilege” of being a visitor to their own children every other weekend. As it stems from the amount of time a babysitter would have spent with a child. Clearly this has changed over the years as more dads have become more involved in their children's lives.

usku · 2015-03-30T20:14:43+00:00

Where do I get that shirt? Nice to see some media attention to that issue. Tired of being told I am babysitting my kids.

publicbigguns · 2015-03-31T03:21:37+00:00

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HugoWeaver · 2015-03-31T03:19:27+00:00

I'm always having a go at fellow dads for saying "I'm babysitting my kids this weekend". No you fucking are not. My wife works nights, from 4PM until midnight so my whole day is usually

5AM, wake up, walk the dog

6:30AM, wake the kids, dress them for school. Give them brekky. Go to work

6PM, come home from work, pick the kids up from family day care

6PM - 8:30PM, look after the kids, feed and bathe them. Clean house, do laundry

12:30AM, wife comes home

My wife actually does nothing after dropping the kids off at school as they go from school to family day care after it. I'm the one that does all the chores, that raises them. If somebody said I was babysitting, I would go right up to them and punch them in the nose.

Jaykaykaykay · 2015-03-31T08:21:01+00:00

Do you fight crime by night?

2015-03-31T05:22:57+00:00

I don't even see how somebody can say that to a father. I've never even heard it. The closest thing I've heard is "Oh, you got (stuck with) the kids today?" Maybe "You're watching the kids today?" I mean, some people use watching and baby-sitting interchangeably sometimes but watch just means to look after so it doesn't carry that connotation that "baby-sitting" does.

billyjoedupree · 2015-03-31T16:04:47+00:00

Now this is too funny.

The longest running argument my wife and I had was over me saying that I would babysit the kids while she did X after I got home from work. She would go apeshit that I dared to call it babysitting. My pov was, that's a baby; i'm sitting, ergo "babysitting". I see no problem with the fact that at that moment i am "babysitting", because as a father I am always parenting, it simply goes without saying. As the working part of the household, babysitting is an abnormal part of my parental duties, therefore it deserves a distinctive.

From the MRA point of view, this completely misses the target. The message is that the father is a parent but it gets lost in the specifics of the activity. Because of that, he's just confirmed himself as a babysitter.

Many times in life, more is said by less; especially if there is a T-shirt involved.

GayLubeOil · 2015-03-31T07:29:42+00:00

So a woman said some stupid shit.

This dude got butt hurt.

Then he made a sassy shirt.

Sounds like the child has two mommies. Here's an idea: be a real fucking Dad and teach your children to hunt.

Title	As a dad that works nights and looks after my daughter by day, I couldn't agree more
Author	publicbigguns
Upvotes	111
Comments	19
Date	March 30, 2015 6:15 PM UTC (11 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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