I’m a 32-year-old mother who recently purchased an expensive $199 rocking chair for my child’s nursery. My husband is beyond excited about it because he’s really looking forward to our child using it. However, I’m concerned that, given how messy our little one tends to be, the chair might get ruined. It looks beautiful in the room, and I really want to preserve the space’s aesthetic. So, I told my husband that I don’t want our child using it. He’s upset with me, saying that I’m depriving our child of a key childhood experience in favor of maintaining the room’s appearance. Am I the asshole for wanting to protect the chair and the room?
Yes. You’re the asshole. Just used the rocking chair. Don’t worry about having an Instagram aesthetic room.
YTA. Kids destroy stuff. Get used to it.
YTA but this cannot be real
This is so stupid. You paid $200 for a rocking chair for your kid to look at? I literally never agree with the husbands in these posts, but you’re the asshole.
Why would you put anything in a kid’s room that you’re not willing to have them abuse? You’re living in fantasyland.
Regardless, you’ll both be sick of the noise the kid manages to make with it in short order.
Yta, your poor kid.
YTA you bought a chair to look at it instead of use it. What a waste.
YTA. Your kid’s room and the things in it should be theirs to use and enjoy. If you don’t want to risk something being damaged, it doesn’t go in their room.
“The aesthetic of the space”? She’s a child, she doesn’t give a damn about the aesthetic. Are you worried someone is going to judge you for not having a permanently Instagramable room? Grow up.
Edit: spelling
$199 isn’t even expensive for a piece of furniture these days. YTA.
Yta. Why in gods name would you buy a rocking chair (or anything) for a nursery and then not let your kids use it? Its giving sad beige mom
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YTA. You bought a kid’s rocking chair but don’t want the kid to use it? It’s furniture, not a museum display. Rooms are for living in, not just looking pretty for Instagram. Kids are messy, that’s normal. Let them enjoy it.
Motherhood is not “aesthetic,” the development of a child’s brain and body isn’t “aesthetic,” let go of preserving aesthetics now. YTA. Chair’s more important than the life you created on your own and painfully pushed out? idgi.
YTA
Does your child sleep on the floor so they don’t ruin the cot? No. (At least, I hope not.)
Let your child use furniture the way it’s meant to be used.