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Did anyone else think that Frank was... Not the smartest parent?

posted 16 years ago by Gigi_Marie
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He knew his wife wouldn't/couldn't touch or pick up Sam, yet Frank left him alone with her. It was practically the same thing as leaving Sam alone in the house by himself. If I knew that my husband couldn't be relied upon to take care of our child if the baby was crying or in trouble, I would never leave that baby alone with my husband. I was amazed that Frank didn't think of this right off the bat.

"Veni, Vidi, Velcro"
I came, I saw, I stuck around.

[–] EvilChick 16 years ago

Another moment of great parenting: When he was begging the crazy neighbor to babysit!!!

EC

[–] snoopys_dabomb 16 years ago

what about him changing the diaper, and then leaving him on the counter to change the garbage..I was sitting there thinking, idiot much?

[–] fingerpaint_the_sky 16 years ago

Not to mention that babies that small aren't supposed to have any blankets in their cribs, incase they accidentally suffocate...

[–] LaPuertaDelCielo 16 years ago

Well, I think that's something a man would do. As a wife, I've noticed that my husband is a little carefree, and other movies have proven the same thing. Men are not as detail-oriented as women.

I'M NO ANGEL

[–] reallivegirl 16 years ago

Also: moving your infant son and VERY depressed, suicidal wife out to a remote area that you have to take a ferry to get to...they lose power and have no phone. Cell phone much? What if your baby came down with something? A crazy neighbor, no power.

I don't know ANYONE who would do this with a newborn. SO STUPID.

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[–] ajnemajrje 15 years ago

He was actually very supportive of her but after a while - in his shoes I would have gotten frustrated with her. But that must be what it actually is like to deal with someone suffering from post-partum depression.

I think be leaving the baby with her he was trying to push her into being motherly with the baby. If something had happened maybe she would have stepped up and gotten over it. That is what I think he was thinking but then again he may just have been a bad dad :P

[–] lizard666666 15 years ago

Frank was a wuss too.

[–] kili_2 15 years ago

She actually had post-partum psychosis, which is evident in the fact that she wanted NOTHING to do with the baby (not see it, not touch it, not be near it), she didn't even want to hear the baby cry because it angers or saddens her. She's positive the baby hates her no matter what her husband says.