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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Wait, so you think you’d be a hero for not charging a friend for watching their kids? And you expect parents to send kids with lunches when they stay over the day?
When I was a kid, I ate lunch at friend’s houses several times a week. And we had kids over at our place all the time. Often all day. And they were fed. And our parents didn’t even know each other.
Our kids don’t have friends over nearly as often, but we don’t have a problem feeding them lunch, dinner, etc when they do.
What kind of world are we living in where anyone would even consider charging money for watching their friends’ kids for a day, and balk at feeding them lunch and snacks?
JFC, no wonder fewer couples want to have kids when this is the selfish every-person-for-themselves attitude towards child-rearing and community.
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My kids aren't even home, they're at school all day today, so it's not a friend hang-out. It's a big inconvenience for my wife to then be watching someone else's kids, feeding them, driving them around (when she goes to pick up
our kids) -- all arranged last minute. I don't think it's a selfish ask to at least help out by sending your kid with a sandwich.
There's a history with this friend too, we've watched one or more of her kids many many times for free of course, and fed them too, and the days always stretch out longer than they say or more kids get added in. And they're never available when we need help for something. It's never a one-off thing and you start to feel like you're being taken advantage of at a certain point.