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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I only judge when I see something where parents are super unengaged and it seems like they are overly hands off. Recent example: nice restaurant in Manhattan on a Sunday afternoon. 2 parents sat there drinking wine and talking/on their phones for a 2.5 he meal where they didn't once interact with the one 4ish year old who was there with them, with the nanny. Idk, maybe they're amazing the other 99 percent of the time, but I side eyed a bit. I can't imagine having one kid and needing to hire someone to accompany me and spouse to a Sunday brunch. [/quote]

I agree with this and the PP further upthread who basically said something similar.  If parents hire lots of help to avoid having to deal with their kids, I would judge that.  Those people should not have kids.

I can understand parents who hire help with things if they can afford it, but [b]I do wonder what it does to the kids if all the household work is outsourced[/b].  They will be those kids who go to college and fall apart.  There is something to be said about learning the basics of doing your laundry, cleaning your bathroom, doing the dishes, mowing the lawn etc.[/quote]

If you really do wonder, I had a housekeeper growing up who came every day.  I never made my bed, never did my laundry, never cleaned a bathroom, never really did the dishes although I'd clean up a little after I cooked or baked, and to this day I have never moved a lawn.  I never had a problem making my bed in college or doing my laundry there, and my house now is very well kept.  I'm a sample size of one, but I'm here to say that not doing any of that stuff growing up had no impact on my ability to learn to do it later in life.[/quote]

So who cleans your house? Who mows your lawn now? DH?  Or do you still outsource.  [/quote]

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