{"id":54295,"date":"2025-03-09T01:54:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T01:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54295"},"modified":"2025-03-09T01:54:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T01:54:18","slug":"my-mom-quit-babysitting-to-take-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=54295","title":{"rendered":"My Mom Quit Babysitting to Take Da >>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Frustrated Son\u2019s Perspective<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m beyond frustrated. My mom has always watched my kids, but suddenly, she says she\u2019s \u201ctoo busy.\u201d She wants to take dance classes and have brunch with friends instead of being there for us. My wife and I work full-time and rely on her to help with the kids. Now, she\u2019s abandoning that responsibility to \u201cenjoy life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where am I supposed to find a babysitter? She\u2019s retired, has nothing else to do, and yet chooses to quit being a grandmother when we need her most. She raised me, so why is she acting like this now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mother\u2019s Response<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi, I\u2019m Mom. I wasn\u2019t planning to respond, but here I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love my family and grandkids, but I am not a full-time babysitter. After decades of raising children, I now want to enjoy my life. I gave my son love, support, and plenty of free childcare, but I\u2019m 71. My knees ache, and I\u2019d rather dance than watch Paw Patrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not abandoning anyone\u2014I\u2019m choosing to live. If my son thinks I owe him free childcare forever, maybe he needs a lesson in gratitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frustrated Son\u2019s Perspective I\u2019m beyond frustrated. My mom has always watched my kids, but suddenly, she says she\u2019s \u201ctoo busy.\u201d She wants to take dance classes and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54296,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54295\/revisions\/54296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}