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This phrase kills me every time I hear a woman use it.
She's catching up with a friend for coffee/taking a bath/doing some form of self-care "Oh I'm so lucky, Damian is watching the kids".
You never hear a man say this phrase.
He's playing golf "Oh I'm so lucky, Carla is watching the kids".
THEY ARE HIS OWN KIDS. HE IS NOT "WATCHING" THEM FOR YOU. THEY ARE NOT YOUR SOLE 24/7 RESPONSIBILITY.
He is parenting his own children.
Normalise men doing normal childcare duties for their own children!
If you hear a woman say it, tell her "he's doing what should be expected of him".
Yup. Which is why the fathers’ rights movement is nonsense. Fathers already get preferential treatment in family court while typically having not been the primary caregiver, ever.
That, and men saying their “babysitting” they’re own kids.
I remember reading a comment from a woman who divorced who said she now gets every other week off when her ex-husband gets the kids