Am I being petty or would you feel the same way?

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Anonymous wrote:He sounds like a guy who relates to people by joking around. He may not realize that he's upset you or made you feel weird. He also sounds like he is scrambling for child care and you could probably really help him out. It's your call. You are lucky to be able to stay home - not everyone is. (I'm a full-time working mom and this week is pretty much hell due to all the school closures, some last-minute, coupled with a very busy work week.) Count your blessings and maybe help the guy out - he might be able to help you out sometime in the future, or just be a better neighbor.

You sound (you are) jealous and she owes the guy nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:Whenever someone has to ask if they're being petty, the answer is usually yes.

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Anonymous wrote:Not doing someone a favor does not make someone "a lousy person".

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That's not the reason people think OP is a lousy person. She's entitled and tone-deaf.

Man you guys are awful. She said she regretted posting it and deleted her account. FFS. Does she now owe it to everyone to do them any favor they ask?

ITS NOT ABOUT THE FAVOR.

What are you so spun about about? Certainly her post wouldn’t bother adults secure in their own choices? Again, it can’t be unsaid.

Spun about about? What can’t be unsaid? Drunk already?

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Anonymous wrote:Whenever someone has to ask if they're being petty, the answer is usually yes.

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Many of you don't know what it is like to raise kids full time because frankly, you've never done it. You stayed home for 4 months, and then you placed your kids in the care of a day care or nanny.That sounds like the case with your neighbor for sure!

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Anonymous wrote:Many of you don't know what it is like to raise kids full time because frankly, you've never done it. You stayed home for 4 months, and then you placed your kids in the care of a day care or nanny.That sounds like the case with your neighbor for sure!

Aren’t you precious.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of you don't know what it is like to raise kids full time because frankly, you've never done it. You stayed home for 4 months, and then you placed your kids in the care of a day care or nanny.That sounds like the case with your neighbor for sure!

The single dad? Yes, he probably has to work. Most single parents do.

As a SAHM/WAHM, I didn't have to drop my baby off at daycare. I feel lucky for that, I'm not complaining. If it was too hard for me, I would have gone back to an office job. Same goes for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of you don't know what it is like to raise kids full time because frankly, you've never done it. You stayed home for 4 months, and then you placed your kids in the care of a day care or nanny.That sounds like the case with your neighbor for sure!

Aren’t you precious.

The truth hurts, I know. But you don’t know how difficult it is or how easy it is because you haven’t actually done it.

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Anonymous wrote:He sounds like a guy who relates to people by joking around. He may not realize that he's upset you or made you feel weird. He also sounds like he is scrambling for child care and you could probably really help him out. It's your call. You are lucky to be able to stay home - not everyone is. (I'm a full-time working mom and this week is pretty much hell due to all the school closures, some last-minute, coupled with a very busy work week.) Count your blessings and maybe help the guy out - he might be able to help you out sometime in the future, or just be a better neighbor.

You sound (you are) jealous and she owes the guy nothing.

You know you've lost the argument when you have to trot out the "you're just jealous" BS. Lame.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of you don't know what it is like to raise kids full time because frankly, you've never done it. You stayed home for 4 months, and then you placed your kids in the care of a day care or nanny.That sounds like the case with your neighbor for sure!

Aren’t you precious.

The truth hurts, I know. But you don’t know how difficult it is or how easy it is because you haven’t actually done it.

Truth hurts whom? The truth that OP finally confirmed that SAHMs with kids in preschool or school have lots of free time no matter how much they protest that their remaining home is essential to the delicate balance of the universe?? You know, for those two professional days when school is closed and two days a year when their kids are sick and *need* them at home?

Look, all the people out there at home taking care of their infants and toddlers are doing a great thing. But you chose to have a kid. You got to choose to stay home with them. Stop looking for validation here.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of you don't know what it is like to raise kids full time because frankly, you've never done it. You stayed home for 4 months, and then you placed your kids in the care of a day care or nanny.That sounds like the case with your neighbor for sure!

Aren’t you precious.

The truth hurts, I know. But you don’t know how difficult it is or how easy it is because you haven’t actually done it.

Truth hurts whom? The truth that OP finally confirmed that SAHMs with kids in preschool or school have lots of free time no matter how much they protest that their remaining home is essential to the delicate balance of the universe?? You know, for those two professional days when school is closed and two days a year when their kids are sick and *need* them at home?

Look, all the people out there at home taking care of their infants and toddlers are doing a great thing. But you chose to have a kid. You got to choose to stay home with them. Stop looking for validation here.

Op doesn't want validation, she wants to be free of this man's harassment

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Anonymous wrote:Many of you don't know what it is like to raise kids full time because frankly, you've never done it. You stayed home for 4 months, and then you placed your kids in the care of a day care or nanny.That sounds like the case with your neighbor for sure!

Aren’t you precious.

The truth hurts, I know. But you don’t know how difficult it is or how easy it is because you haven’t actually done it.

Truth hurts whom? The truth that OP finally confirmed that SAHMs with kids in preschool or school have lots of free time no matter how much they protest that their remaining home is essential to the delicate balance of the universe?? You know, for those two professional days when school is closed and two days a year when their kids are sick and *need* them at home?

Look, all the people out there at home taking care of their infants and toddlers are doing a great thing. But you chose to have a kid. You got to choose to stay home with them. Stop looking for validation here.

Op doesn't want validation, she wants to be free of this man's harassment

Harassment? Now it's harassment?

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It’s not unreasonable to turn the guy down - I assume it is not just picking up his kid but watching the kid for the entire afternoon when you might have other plans.

However, if the real or only reason you are turning him down is that he made some stupid cracks about a Facebook post- then yes, you are being petty

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Yes, you are being petty.

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Come on!

Seriously, how many working moms would take kindly to a SAHM making jokes about nannies raising her kids and then asking for career advice?

You guys would be skewering her!

Get over it. OP's neighbor is not entitled to free babysitting just because she stays home with her children. OP is completely in the right to say "No that doesn't work for me."