Mom forces husband to watch their 5 and 7-year-old kids during work hours to prove a point: 'He said I shouldn't be so petty and prideful'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Nov 14, 2024 11:00 AM EST

If you really think that childcare isn't actually work, you must've never spent time with a kid. It's surprising that this dad feels that way, considering he has two children of his own! 

This mom usually stays home with her kids while also running a small business for a few hours each day. That's already a lot to juggle, and as she mentions, she's home alone all day with her energetic 5-year-old, and then she's alone with both kids for a few hours when the older kid gets done with school. However, her husband works in an office, and they've been getting into petty arguments after work. It happens far too often in relationships: you get done work and you're both tired and hangry, so you start snipping at each other until it turns into a full-blown argument. 

The dad ended up telling u/ClearCoffee7140 that he didn't think she had a lot on her plate as a working stay-at-home mom, telling her she could "at least take care of dinner." Well, this mom let her husband find out through first-hand experience just how difficult it can be to care for kids and work at the same time, and to no one's surprise, Dad didn't care for it! 

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    AITA for letting my kids disturb my husband during an important work meeting, after he said he would handle them for a day to prove how easy my job is?
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    I'm 31F and my husband is 36M. We have two boys, a 5yr old and a 7yr old. My husband works in an office and he has the option to work a few days a week from home, but he prefers not to because he says it's easier to focus in the office. I run a small business from home. I don't have a lot of daily work, just some emails and planning (maybe 3 hours a day?) but the business does make about a third of our
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    household income. But my younger son is home all day and just dealing with him takes a lot of energy. He's really high energy and will probably wreck something if you leave him alone for an hour. And then the older one comes home at 3 and both of them are with me until 8 or 9, which is when my husband usually comes home. A few days ago, I was really tired and I didn't make dinner. When my husband
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    came home I asked him if we could just order something. He was also tired and we were both short tempered so we ended up snapping at each other. He said I should have at least ordered before he got home and he was hungry, I said I forgot and it's not fair that food is always my problem. He said that I'm home all day and I even admit I don't
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    have much work to do, so I'm basically a SAHM and should at least take care of dinner. I said he has no idea how much I do everyday, and he said he'd handle the kids for an entire day while also working from home just to prove it should be easy for me. I said sure, so he made the arrangements to work from home yesterday.
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    I slept in, and when I woke up he was already frazzled from getting the older one ready for school. He ended up having to cancel a meeting to make breakfast, and was worried about that. Then when he took another meeting later on, the boys went out to play in the yard and got super muddy and left footprints all over the house. which he then had to mop, and I didn't help at all. By this point I did feel sort of guilty because it was definitely harder
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    for him to take care of work at the same time, but all I wanted was an apology. He said he was doing this to show that I do nothing all day, and if he just admitted he was wrong I would have helped out straight away. Later on he had another meeting, and he told the boys not to bother him for an hour. But about 20 mins in, they got in an argument about something and our younger one went into my husband's room to complain. He
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    was really loud and my husband's video was also on, then he told the kid to leave him alone but he was upset and crying and wasn't listening. After a few mins my husband went back to the meeting and apologized to the other people. when it was finished, he was really angry at me. he said I could see what was happening and I just watched him struggle without helping. I said all you had to say was please help, he said I shouldn't be so petty
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    and prideful. This probably made him look a bit stupid in front of his manager, but it was only a few minutes and I don't think It was the huge deal he made it out to be.
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