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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Head's up: You are staying home on the days your child is home because you don't trust him to take care of her the way you want her taken care of.

You created a self fulfilling prophecy here.

Go to work and let them both figure it out. [/quote]

I disagree because I think if the DH's approach was not resulting in negative repercussions for OP, she would be fine with it.

He's being a spoiled brat and reaching for the one thing that allow him to ignore his child for the entire time he's with her (screens). I'm not anti-screen at all but if my kid spent the whole morning or the whole day watching TV, she'd be a mess by the end of the day. Just cranky and hungry and antsy. And she'd sleep like crap. Plus she'd also wind up demanding TV all the time after that because screens are, in fact, addictive and once she got a taste of unlimited access to one for hours at a time, that's all she'd want to do.

It would be one thing if OP was mad that her DH wasn't feeding their kid perfectly balanced meals, or was doing iPad time during his work calls (which is totally understandable -- we all do that!), or the house was getting messy or whatever. You need to allow room for your co-parent to be human, and no one is going to parent perfectly under these circumstances. OP isn't parenting perfectly! But she's not parenting in a way that makes their kid a total wreck that her DH will then have to deal with. Because that would be unfair to the kid and unfair to her DH.

Plus he's complaining about it. He's acting like this is just a burden to him and not to OP. He's not "figuring it out" -- he's likely doing the worst possible job he can on purpose so that OP will stay home and do it instead, since apparently she's the only parent here who feels obligated to actually do right by their kid instead of looking for the easiest possible out.

I agree with others that they need to hire outside childcare help unless or until the DH stops acting like an entitled child and steps up. Their child shouldn't have to suffer just because he is mad about the realities of parenting in 2022. And neither should OP. He needs to grow up.[/quote]

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