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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't really get this- do you not have a day every so often like 1 time per month or so that you guys don't want a break/ day off from parenting? Because that sounds pretty win-win to me.[/quote]

Seriously! I'm not going to have some weird power struggle over "who's in charge of my DD" when what's at stake is free babysitting from someone who loves my kid almost as much as I do.  If my mom or in laws lived close enough, I would drop DD off as much as they and she wanted.  Why is there such nitpicking on DCUM about this topic?[/quote]

NP. I don't see a power struggle at all. No one but DH and I have any control or power whatsoever with respect to our kids, so there is no "struggle." I don't need or want free babysitting, our family is busy, and I like spending the weekends with my kids. If I were OP, I would find her mother's requests ridiculous and annoying and would not accommodate.[/quote]

This is the same camp of people who's also posting here "Ugh I'm so burnt out/haven't had a night away with DH in x years/having an tricky childcare situation, what do I do???  We have no family close by and no friends who can help us either." This trend of the isolated nuclear family is new in human history and a bad development. [/quote]

I  think the majority of families still happily involve grandparents, aunties, uncles etc. DCUM is not indicative of real life, happy people with functional families don't post frequently here.[/quote]

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