Holy Hell! 20 years later? Your mom can hold a grudge! :P

She doesn't bring it up in arguments or anything. She just teases him about it now and then.

Oh without a doubt. I figured it was just playful teasing.(:

I thought you'd probably figured that, but I thought I'd clarify just in case. I don't wanna make my mom seem like a mean person!

You see, people, it's kind of funny if you put it to the tune of "25 days of Christmas." Bubbles on the floor Five dead fish One sleeping husband And a partridge in a pear tree

And perdix already did this comment earlier^^ Please read the comments before you type yours so you don't copy other people and look like an idiot for it later. This has been a public service announcement by Michael... Thank you for your time.

Why does everyone else (I count 2..) who posts this comment think that it's pair tree instead of PEAR tree?

You're an idiot.

70 - She, as in the daughter put bubbles in the fishtank while the dad (he) was sleeping.

Really, sexist? All OP said about the husband is "he helped himself to a nap". Is that sexist?

90- I'm going to answer your questions for you. 1. Yes, she did ask him to watch his own daughter, obviously. That's how a normal, functional family works. (In case you didn't know.) 2. Chances are, no, she doesn't spend much time out of the house. She, probably, had some important errands to run. Which is why she asked her sleepy husband to watch the toddler. 3. (This isn't an answer to a question. This is a comment to your last statement.) Out of everything you could have said about the husband, you chose to say that "He sounds sexist."? How in the hell does the husband sound sexist? Please, answer that one for me. Because, in my opinion, it sounds as if the husband is sleepy. Not sexist, by any means.

I'm just saying she should be able to go out with out having to say "watch our daughter" llol Js.

Being a mum, myself, and having a husband that works long hours, sometimes I need him to watch our daughter while i need to go out because I can't always take her with me. He still knows to stay awake and watch her, or if he is tired he will tuck her in with him or put her in her cot with a bottle so that she will go to sleep as well. If you aren't watching your child, you need to put them somewhere where they won't be walking/crawling around the house unsupervised. The loungeroom TV could fall on them, they could play "what does this taste like" with the cleaning products under the sink in the kitchen, they could kill the fish with soap - anything could happen. I'm in no way saying that he is a bad dad, because he isn't but he really needs to be more vigilant. I happen to have a "when I was four years old" story, myself. ; ) When my twin and I were four years old, we were left unsupervised upstairs for an extended period of time. We liked the Panadol, because it tasted like lollies... so we devised a plan to get it. We stacked furniture (a wooden box, ontop of a small a cabnet, then a step-ladder ontop of the box), I climbed onto my twin's shoulders to get the key that was hanging on the wall above the cabnet, unlocked it and searched through the packets of pills and bottles for the bottle that had the picture of the mother and the baby on it. Tossed it down to my twin, locked the cabnet, replaced the key and then climbed down. We had enough time to do all that, and then put everything back where it was, DRINK HALF THE BOTTLE EACH and then put the bottle in the bin. We were later found out, taken to hospital and were given the all-clear because the Panadol didn't have any Codine in it or anything. The moral to the story is that children aren't stupid, and are capable of crazy things if they put their minds to it. Children should be supervised at all times.

I, firmly, believe that kids should be supervised at all times. I, especially, know that they need supervision 24/7, seeing as how I have a child that has an I.V. and a feeding tube. I'm not saying, by any means, to let the kids roam free and not even pay attention to them or what they're doing. But, there will be times, unfortunately, where you can't keep your eye on them. There will be accidents. Such as falling asleep while they're awake, leaving them in their rooms to play, kids sneaking outside, etc... It's inevitable. And it's silly to think that you can keep an eye on them at all times. Perfection is unattainable. And parenting perfection is, completely, impossible. Accidents do happen. They will happen, whether we like it or not. We, as parents, just need to remember that and be the best parents possible.