Sisi_Kill: Maybe if you stopped calling it "babysitting" and started calling it what it really is - PARENTING . .more men would do it.

JallowBah: I dont babysit my own kid, neither does my husband. Its called parenting.

Even if I go to dance at the club, he is not babysitting his own kid, he is home with the child.

And I would not settle down with a man that expected me to do everything around the house..

Sisi_Kill: Maybe if you stopped calling it "babysitting" and started calling it what it really is - PARENTING . .more men would do it.

Siena: I don't "babysit" my own children, I spend quality time with them. It's called "parenting", which I do often and enjoy doing. It's not a big deal, babysitting makes it sound like a chore, which it certainly isn't.

Babysitting is a reference to looking after children other than your own.

debrief08: Hubby spends more time with the kids after work than I do. No be him pickin dem be? Any man who feels taking care of his kids is doing his wofe a favor should not answer when the kids grow up and call him father.

WhiteOne: Babysitting – well, how much money do you have? Looking for a Babysitter? As dad is so busy doing business and mummy has a well-paid full time job, the four to five this looked after by a nanny.
Just kidding, most parents in London share the work, it is not possible otherwise. Even neighbours help each other. My hubby has sometimes daddy’s day care or daddy’s after school club. By 5 to 8 pounds per child no wonder!
If the men do not role up the sleeves and dig in, our live stile just sucks.
And any lady, who comes down from Nigeria, is just after money.
So Mr. Baby-Sitting or No Process.

I'm really struggling to understand what you've typed here.

Siena: I don't "babysit" my own children, I spend quality time with them. It's called "parenting", which I do often and enjoy doing. It's not a big deal, babysitting makes it sound like a chore, which it certainly isn't.

Babysitting is a reference to looking after children other than your own.

promire2004: I don't know why some persons would leave what is important for trivial things. Baby-sitting, parenting, whatever..... What matters most is that I tried as much as possible to be succinct in my post. Over-analyzing whether baby-sitting is the right or wrong word for this context isn't the point please. Like I pointed out earlier, constructive criticisms are welcome but I really don't like it when a topic is derailed. Yeah, yeah, I know I shudn't have used the word 'baby-sitting' makes it sound like a hectic chore or something of that sort, but pleaseeeeeeeeeee, let's stick to the topic. Thanks.

debrief08:
Simple, modify your title and write the right thing, we cant look past it and just "manage" thats how Nigeria got to this state, something isnt right and we refuse to correct it we say "manage it like that".

Ujujoan:

No need for technicalities . . . It's either you are looking after your kids or you are not!

Calling it 'baby-sitting' doesn't change the fact!

Siena:

If you think doing things right, or stating things correctly is a technicality, I'm not sure how your thought process works. One of the reasons Nigeria is in the state she's in today - An inability to change, or take correction. Even the OP saw it fitting to change the title of her thread.

So yes, making right and wrong statements will produce different results.

Ujujoan:

Yea right . . .

Nigeria's in a dump cos I just called 'Potato' "Pothato' . . .

Siena:

Very much so. As I stated, there's nothing wrong in making mistakes, as long as the said mistakes are acknowledged. Happily, the OP acknowledged hers. It wasn't even your error, so not sure why you're getting all hot under the collar.

I don't babysit my own children, I parent them, spend quality time with them. I babysit children that aren't mine, if their parents are not around, and I'm in a position to do so. I can't parent them, because I have no parental responsibility over them.

It's that simple.

Ujujoan:

I'm not the one bothered here . . . You are the one fixating on terms used rightly/wrongly.

Well you pulled me up on my post when you quoted me. No one else did. How come you didn't quote anyone else?

Still, the title was corrected by the OP, and that's all that matters. And the general consensus on here is that we parent our children, not babysit them. Again, that's all that counts, and the OP's gotten the idea.

Adios!

Siena:

Well you pulled me up on my post when you quoted me. No one else did. How come you didn't quote anyone else?

Still, the title was corrected by the OP, and that's all that matters. And the general consensus on here is that we parent our children, not babysit them. Again, that's all that counts, and the OP's gotten the idea.

Adios!

Ujujoan:

Yea yea yea . . whatever!

Siena:

That's the response expected from teens who can't back up their statements. Not what I would have expected from you, but hey, this is the age of miracles.

Sisi_Kill: Maybe if you stopped calling it "babysitting" and started calling it what it really is - PARENTING . .more men would do it.

Siena:

Well you pulled me up on my post when you quoted me. No one else did. How come you didn't quote anyone else?

Still, the title was corrected by the OP, and that's all that matters. And the general consensus on here is that we parent our children, not babysit them. Again, that's all that counts, and the OP's gotten the idea.

Adios!