Who's responsibility is it?

Your partner gets told less than a week in advance that he has to attend a course for work for 3 days (2 nights) away. During one of those nights you have a pre-paid fittness/hobbie class that you attend weekly. It is already agreed that your partner stays with baby for these 2 hours every week. It is the only time all week you have to yourself. Who's responsibility is it to find childcare? 1. Your partners, they were due to be looking after them as pre agreed & should find childcare. 2. Yours, you are the primary care giver & your activity is leasure not work.
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Can’t you both ask around/ whoever has time??

Agree with above comment. Focus less on whose responsibility it is. Should be both of yours. You’re a team.

Yeah we would both try to figure it out, or I would just miss that one time 🤷‍♀️

Great question . Both .

Both. Depends on who would normally babysit for you and who they are closer to ie if it’s his mum then him and vise versa.

Actually that said should be you as the babysitter will need to liase with you as you will be doing the handover.

Even if our plans are together ie date night I’m always the one who arranges the childcare

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I'd honestly just miss the class for once, it isn't like he has arranged a social event on the night you usually do something it's for work. There has to be a bit of give and take. If you want a babysitter I'd say you should be the one to find one

I mean in this situation we'd ask around family together it wouldn't be a 'its your responsibility' situation because we're both responsible. If no childcare was available, I wouldn't go to the class, It's a course for work, not a party. It's a weekly class, granted it's pre-paid but I'd say a required work course is more important.

He probably isn’t over the moon about having to work away either! (Would you be?) I think a nice gesture would be for him to pay for an extra class if you pay for them yourself- shit happens sometimes- and it’s just a one off! If it happened the other way, you’d expect a bit of compromise/teamwork wouldn’t you?

I kinda just think both are right. Work is more important so it would come first, but if it's pre-planned, he should have to do something about it. Like I don't book things on my own when my partner has a shift at work 🤷🏼‍♀️ Having said that, I agree with the other comments that you should both be working on being a team ❤️

Because his is for work i’d say his needs to take priority and you may have to miss it for a week but if you can both ask around for childcare then that’s ideal!

Shared responsibility he doesn’t stop being a parent because he’s working and you don’t stop being a mum because of a class 🙂. You absolutely deserve 2 hours free time

In my situation I can just drop him off at either of my 2 sisters, or I have 2 friends that live locally that I can drop him off for 2hrs they’d be perfectly fine w that as long as they can. I wouldn’t wanna miss my class, so I’d find childcare since it’s more important to me and I’d be the one doing the handover at the time (since hubby technically wouldn’t be there at the time)

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Deff think it woukd be both of you. I did vote “ yours “ because it seems like his course it related to work which to me is a higher priority then a workout class. It sucks as it’s already paid for but if he has to take this class and it’s not an option for him to watch your Lo but you do have the option to skip the workout class.

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