Grrr! DH and I don't mean dear! vent

Emiliana7 · July 2010

My DH (not dear this time-lol) has no clue! grrr... for the last 2-3 weeks DD has been staying up a little later and later- adjusting her bedtime. She would just lay in her crib for a hour or so before falling asleep but then wake up in the eary am (like 1-2 am)...so we even discussed the adjusting of the bedtime to see what works best for her. Well, what's been workign best is her going to bed between 8:30-9pm.

DH has so thoughtfully, from the couch where he is playing games on his iphone- asked "you gonna put her in bed now so we can watch a movie?" (this was about half hour ago.) Ummm, no DH- she won't go to sleep if we try that that's way too early. Especially since we've been out to dinner with the nieghbors and she's all riled up.

its bad enough that his "quality time" with DD consists of him playing video games or watching TV with just having DD in the room. I've tried to gently suggest interactign with her and he pulls the "I've been working all day long I need to chill" Dude- you work in a cube and you tell me about your day- it isn't construction and its not rocket science- you don't need all evening to chill- esp. since you need to interact with your child!!

I had to vent somewhere or else I would go off on him.

I can only hope it will be better when we have a boy so they can do "boy stuff"...maybe that's his problem. grrr.

EdithBouvierBeale · July 2010

I would give that man a swat with a thwappum stick! That's what I would do!

kertybird · July 2010

Sounds like he just doesn't know what to so with your daughter to hang out. If he likes video games and your DD is old enough can you get them a Wii? I have a single dad that wasn't super close to his kid, but they now spend hours playing their wii and they have a blast. His son is a little over 2.

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