The ONE thing you shouldn't say to a mum on a night out

Tarring all mothers with the same brush is a fool's game because just like fathers, brothers,sisters, aunts and uncles, we all have a dfferent approach to our role.

Some mums are hands-on, some are helicopter mothers and some are much more reserved, but I think it's fair to say the vast majority of us in a relationship stand firm on the following and abhor being asked a certain question on a night out.

Prepare yourselves ladies, the dreaded is acoming.

“So...is the hubby babysitting?”

First of all, unless you want me to regurgitate the first glass of wine I've had in weeks all over the dress I fished from the laundry basket, you probably shouldn't use the word 'hubby' again.

And secondly, no. My husband is not babysitting.

And how do I know?

Well, because when I was leaving the house this evening I dont recalll leaving him money for a takewaway or reminding him how to use the central heating and I sure as hell didn't suggest he invite his boyfriend over to keep him company.

My husband is at home caring for the children we brought into the world together.

Babysitting is a temporary set-up and unless there's something I don't know, I'm pretty sure my husband doesn't see his role in our childrens' lives as temporary.

And let me ask you this - if you were to bump into my husband leaving a game of five-a-side on a Saturday morning, would you be as likely to ask him if I was at home babysitting?

No you wouldn't, so why would you demote his role as parent to a job most teenage girls see as a quick and easy route to a Topshop splurge?

 

The last time my husband babysat was as a teen in 1997 when his charge was his older brother's pet parakeet who died while under the watchful eye of my future children's future father.

So I'll thank you not to bring it up again.

 

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