He Claimed It Was His Wife’s Fault That Their Child Told A Babysitter She Was Too Expensive At A Dinner Party Because His Wife Doesn’t Censor Anything Around Their Kids
This 36-year-old guy and his wife, who is 32, have two children together. However, they have slightly different views on one specific realm of parenting.
Apparently, his wife believes that, in an effort to normalize certain topics, they should not censor themselves around their kids. And to a certain extent, he actually agrees with that.
However, his wife apparently has a problem where she talks about people– either in good or bad ways– right in front of the kids. And their 7-year-old daughter, Ashley, has a tendency to repeat things.
So, he and his wife have been working on it with Ashley– telling their daughter how not every single thought needs to be repeated. Plus, sometimes, certain topics are just discussed at home.
“But I also think we need to do our part in making sure we’re not giving her things to be tempted to share that we don’t want out there,” he said.
He claimed that his wife has actually been working on getting better at that, too. After a recent babysitting debacle, though, his daughter repeated something that seriously embarrassed him and his wife.
For context, they have a regular babysitter named Jane, who is 22. And according to him, he and his wife absolutely adore Jane. She has a difficult home life, so she views him and his wife as parental figures. So, Jane attends family events and sometimes just stops by to hang out with his wife.
But obviously, Jane is also sometimes busy and cannot go over to his house to babysit the kids. So, one day, Jane recommended a friend– Thalia– as a fill-in babysitter.
“It was our own fault for not asking Thalia her rate up front because it ended up being a bit out of our budget,” he recalled.
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“But we still paid it as, obviously, it was on us. And it wasn’t a big deal in the end; we just decided we wouldn’t use her going forward.”
Just last weekend, however, he and his wife had a wedding to attend. That same day, Jane just so happened to be busy.
That pushed his daughter, Ashley, to ask if Thalia could just babysit instead. But his wife quickly shut that down and said Thalia was just too expensive.
Now, he thought that was inappropriate to tell Ashley at the time, and he even told his wife that in private. However, she just shrugged off his concerns, and they wound up getting his parents to watch the children.
But it appears that he was right about censoring themselves in front of the kids because just yesterday when Jane went over to his house for his wife’s birthday dinner, his daughter made an off-hand comment.
Apparently, Thalia accompanied Jane to the birthday dinner, and his daughter, Ashley, was super excited to see Thalia.
But then, about halfway through the dinner, Ashley decided to talk to Thalia about why he and his wife chose not to hire her again.
“Mommy says you can’t babysit because you’re too expensive,” Ashley said.
Obviously, that made things a little awkward, and while Thalia claimed it was fine, his wife apparently “chided” Ashley.
Then, after the meal, Jane and Thalia left while his kids went to play. And his wife just started ranting about how embarrassing Ashley’s comment was and how they needed to work harder on teaching her not to repeat private conversations.
“But I said it was her own fault, and she needs to be just as careful,” he revealed.
This immediately made his wife irritated with him, though, and she believed that it was not her fault at all.
So now, he’s been left wondering whether telling his wife that she essentially caused the awkwardness was the wrong thing to do or not.
Do you agree that normalizing topics around children is important? At the same time, should some conversations still stay between the adults– especially when they involve other people? How would you have reacted after this awkward situation?
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