Reply to IL babysitting when MIL has … well … bad judgment

Forum Index » Family Relationships

Reply to "IL babysitting when MIL has … well … bad judgment"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for all the responses so far.  I'm so torn because their intentions are so good, yet responses so bad.  Ultimately, I'm fine with their babysitting if my FIL is around, because he does not have these judgment issues, but I have a hard time guaranteeing he'll be around when they are at their home.

I was hoping people would tell me I was overreacting, but seems most think I am, if anything, underreacting.  I personally like the idea of returning to only short-term (date night) and "supervised" babysitting. That is what we did up until this October weekend, which was our first time trying out a parents-free weekend.  Probably we'll just make excuses about how we don't like to leave the kids for that long, and they'll think we are absurdly overprotective, and that will be that.

But it makes me sad for me (no adults-only vacations! no weekends away bc DH works weekends!) and for the kids (I LOVED weekends with my grandparents when I was little).[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics