An upset mother spoke out after her own father allegedly demanded to be paid for playing with his granddaughter.
As an anonymous mom revealed in her Mumsnet post, she was left incredibly offended by her own father after he suggested he should be paid a wage for looking after her daughter.
According to the mother of a young girl, her parents sometimes visit her at her home and her daughter loves nothing more than playing with her grandfather. Recently, however, the elderly man crossed the line according to his daughter after suggesting he should be paid for playing with his granddaughter.
“This is what my dad ‘joked’ well, he wasn’t laughing about today. Parents come to stay with us, he was playing with toddler, she always wants to play with him. He played for a bit, then stood up and said he was going to the bank to get his wage,” the mom wrote.
“Confused, I asked ‘Wage for what?’ He said ‘For this’ meaning playing/looking after daughter. Am I being unreasonable to feel hurt that he obviously begrudges spending time with her, I’d rather he didn’t if he didn’t want to. How involved are your parents with your kids? Feel disappointed in mine a lot.”
After her post went viral, plenty of parents ran to the father’s defense and suggested that he was just joking and that he probably didn’t mean what he said.
“Why do you think that? Everyone else understands it as a joke,” someone wrote.
Following a series of replies, however, the mother doubled down on her original comment and explained that her father was very serious about what he had said.
She added: “He wasn’t joking, he was p***ed off, said she should play with myself or grandma and went off for a walk.”
After the mom’s follow-up comment, other parents began analyzing the situation and looking at it from another perspective.
“I think you know him well enough to know if this was just a poor taste joke or a real comment disguised as a joke. If he actually is resenting doing this, that is a crying shame,” someone said.
“My own DC have either remote or barely interested family on both sides sadly. For a long time I envied others whose family were hands-on or enthusiastic. It was a thorn in my side. Now I’ve just reached acceptance.
“I grew up surrounded by lots of family and I wish they had that, but actually they have other things I didn’t have so it balances out in the end.
“In the meantime, let him come to you, don’t bend over backwards to engineer a relationship for them if his attitude is to want to count his ‘effort’ let him have as much as he actually wants, he can’t make you feel obligated or uncomfortable then.”
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