My mom definitely doesn't. She's really busy, but mostly, she just doesn't like her routine interupted. My in-laws offer, but not on a regular basis. I'm always sort of jealous of people that have family that has no problem watching their kids. Like my bff, her mom watches her ds all summer vacation, snow days, when she wants to go out, etc, no questions asked. I don't particularly need a babysitter so I can party, but the idea of having mil watch dd while I work seems much nicer than daycare (which is why I'm a sahm). I don't blame anyone, they're my kids, I just wonder what it's like to have parents that literally don't mind at all.
Mine never did (my oldest is 31 now, my youngest 18).
My mom was working full time, along with a fairly long commute when my kids were little. My dad, well, he had little to do with kids even when we were little. Neither EVER wanted to babysit - ever. They didn't mind me coming over with the kids, and they love(d) them - but they didn't want the responsibility.
My inlaws couldn't be trusted with a pet rock.
I use to pay my mom to babysit every week. If we wanted to go out for the night yes she's sit for free. MIL will babysit sometimes. But I don't trust her because she's put my son in the car without his carseat and drove before. So I just don't ask her. I'll leave DS with her for an hour or so as long as I know they are not driving anywhere.
No, my parents and my inlaws aren't in our lives. My husbands father isn't bad, but we've only met him a couple times and he lives far away. One of our kids has a grandparent in their life, my son, whose my stepson whom I adopted, has a maternal grandmother who is involved, but she isn't trust worthy to babysit. I don't mind. Sure it would be nice to have occasional free babysitting, but they are our kids, our problem, so I don't mind having to find a sitter when we are out and can't take the kids.
My mom cannot go more than 2 weeks without keeping the kids overnight. Sometimes she only keeps one so she can have some one on one time and I really like it because it give me one on one time with my kids also. Over the summer she keeps one kid for a week then the other kid for a week then both of them for a week. I hardly ever ask her to watch them unless I have a Dr.'s appointment or during cold and flu season I will occasionally ask her if I have to go grocery shopping for an hour.
Quoting lucsch:My parents live 400 miles away, and my in-laws are 800 miles away. My parents have kept our kids for weeks at a time while we went on vacation, though. A couple of times they drove the 9 hours to come to our house to do it.
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- NoahandEliza
on Feb. 4, 2013 at 6:11 PM