Wife doesn't take our child outside enough?
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Anonymous
| My wife never takes our 2 year old outside. She takes him to an indoor gym for 2-3 hours almost everyday. Apparently all her mom friends take their kids to the indoor gym. So, basically, he's never outside. We live a few minutes away from the beach. It does get humid out here but for the winter months it's really nice. Wife says she's not a fan of being out in the sun because her skin burns easily. |
Anonymous
| So, why don't you take him? |
Anonymous
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Where do you live? It's hard for us to asses because we don't know your weather. I burn easily and avoid the beach like the plague.
Do you take the child outside on your days off? |
Anonymous
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It makes perfect sense that your wife would prefer to hang out with her friends, rather than get skin cancer.
You can take him outside if you want to. |
Anonymous
| I'd have a problem with this. Is there no shady park/playground she can take him to? |
Anonymous
How does your wife take him? Even if they drive he has to go outside to get in the car! I find it hard to believe that your child is never outside! My advice is don't micromanage your wife. How would you like it if she told you how to work? If you are concerned than make it your job to take him outside more. Once your child is older than they will be in school, have recess and want to visit their friends in the neighborhood. In other words..find other problems to worry about! |
Anonymous
| Get a nanny then |
Anonymous
I assume based on your post that she stays home with the 2yo and you work. Do you work 7 days a week? No? Okay, so where do you take your son when you're not working? |
Anonymous
+1 She sounds lazy. |
Anonymous
It sounds like she's taking him to an indoor gym that her friends and their kids go to. A lazy mom would just stay home. |
Anonymous
| Sounds like abuse to me. |
Anonymous
The mother or the husband? |
Anonymous
I agree with PP immediately above. Not lazy at all. She's keeping him active and socialized and gets social interaction herself at the same time. If she's happy and healthy and baby is happy and healthy there is no issue other than OP having some idealized notion of kids just having to be outdoors a specified amount. What works, works, even if it's not how you were raised or what you picture an SAHM "should" do with the baby on HER watch, OP. OP, when it's summer she and the mom friends might all slather on the sunscreen and decide to meet at the playground or take the kids on walks in strollers. I think the person getting cabin fever here is dad, not mom or baby. Take the baby outdoors when you're the one in charge. |
Anonymous
| Buy her a hat, sunglasses and sunscreen. Why don't you all take a family walk on the beach when you get home? Or she can take him to the beach around 4:30, maybe do a picnic dinner there. |
Anonymous
| it's ok. She'll die early. |